Surf's Way Up
- This article is about the minigame from Mario Party 8. For the level from Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! for the Game Boy Advance, see Surf's Up.
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| Appears in | Mario Party 8 | ||
| Type | Duel minigame | ||
| Music track | It's on Now | ||
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Surf's Way Up is a Duel minigame in Mario Party 8, as well as a single-player minigame in Test for the Best. Its name is a pun on the phrase "surf's up."
Introduction
The two players find themselves standing on jetboards hovering over a short road-like expanse. When they reach the end of the expanse, the players are surfing openly through outer space. In the background, Earth can be seen.
Gameplay
The goal is to go through colored circular goals with different point values. However, the player must watch out for the Bowser goals with his emblem shown on them, or else their score instantly drops to zero. Whoever has more points at the end of the minigame wins. If both players have the same number of points, the minigame ends in a tie.
Ending
The winning player performs their victory pose on their jetboard and launches far ahead of the losing player and out of sight, while the losing player does their losing pose on their jetboard behind them. If the minigame ends in a tie, both players will perform their losing poses and the jetboards will not speed ahead.
Test for the Best
In Test for the Best, the player plays alone in this minigame and must go through as many circular point goals as possible, avoiding the Bowser goals, to earn as many points as possible. The scores required to earn a certain point total are as follows:
| Grade | Points earned | Score required in minigame | Title |
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| A+ | 1,000 | 800 points | Cosmic Kahuna |
| A | 900 | 680 points | Stellar Surfer |
| B | 800 | 560 points | Wave Maker |
| C | 700 | 440 points | Surfin' Sophomore |
| D | 600 | 320 points | Surfin' Neophyte |
| F | 0 | N/A | Wipeout Kid |
Controls
- Wii Remote: Move
- Buttons
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– Boost
In-game text
- Rules – "Steer your space sled through the point goals to rack up the highest score."
- Hint – "Avoid the Bowser goals. If you pass through one, your score will drop to zero!"
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ゲットだ！ポイントボール[?] Getto da! Pointo bōru |
Get them! Point balls | |
| French | Surfeur Spatial[?] | Space Surfer | |
| German | Surfen im Weltall[?] | Surfing in Outer Space | |
| Italian | Surf Siderale[?] | Stellar Surf | |
| Korean | 잡아라! 포인트볼[?] Jab-ala! Pointeubol |
Catch It! Point Ball | |
| Spanish | Carrera espacial[?] | Space Race |
Trivia
- This minigame is similar to Target Tag from Mario Party 7, except that there are only two players instead of four.
- If one of the veteran playable characters wins as the solo player, they will perform one of their secondary victory animations from the GameCube-era Mario Party games (with Mario's and Luigi's being slightly different) instead of the new ones they received in this game. Blooper and Hammer Bro will perform their own new secondary victory animations as opposed to their normal ones. This is also the case in Thrash 'n' Crash.
