Bowser Time
- “It's everybody's favorite time, BOWSER TIME!”
- —Bowser, Mario Party 7
Bowser Time is an event in the game Mario Party 7, occuring every five turns. It only happens in the mode Party Cruise. The gauge always starts at 0% when the game began and each turn, after every mini-game, the gauge will increase by 20%. The process repeats until the gauge is at 100%. When that happens, then it's everybody's favorite time as mentioned by Bowser. Then when the game's last 5 turns comes in, the gauge will not appear on the screen. Depending on the number of turns in a match, Bowser Time may occur only once (1x5=5 turns), or up to nine times (9x5=45 turns). The gauge on the screen resembles Bowser's face.
Bowser will do any number of events on different boards. On all the boards except Bowser's Enchanted Inferno, one of the things Bowser can do is take a picture of the players, and make them pay 10 or 20 coins for it. Occasionally, Bowser will pop up on the photo.
In Grand Canal, Pagoda Peak, and Pyramid Park, another thing he might do is take over an Orb Shop and forcibly sell stuff for unfair prices; then, once Bowser leaves, Koopa Kid takes whatever the player was forced to purchase. The other things Bowser does are specific to individual boards, as listed below:
- He might destroy the bridges on the board and build his own bridges with Bowser Spaces on them.
- He might force the players down a few spaces.
- He might smash a bridge so a player gets stuck on the other side.
- He might destroy the bridges on the board that will make players stay on one side for a whole three turns.
- He might take a Star from the player in first place and give it to one of the Koopa Kids.
- He might steal coins from all the players and put them in a chest that will randomly be placed anywhere on the board.
- He might steal stars from the player in first and put it in the chest already containing a star.
- He might put a Ztar in a chest.
- He might destroy a windmill and build a new one.
- He might send a Koopa Kid to rob a windmill.
- He will always sink the island with the Star. Players on the sunken island will be sent back to start and lose half of their coins.
Trivia
The Bowser Gauge could have inspire the Bowser Symbol found in Super Mario Galaxy and other games from that point forward.
