Mario Party Advance
| Mario Party Advance | |
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North American box art | |
| Developer | Hudson Soft |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Directors | Shinichi Nakata Yukinori Goto |
| Producers | Atsushi Ikeda Hiroshi Sato |
| Designer | Fumihisa Sato |
| Programmer | Tetsuharu Takashima |
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| Series | Mario Party |
| Platform | Game Boy Advance |
| Release | |
| Genre | Party |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
Mario Party Advance is a 2005 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is the first handheld game in the Mario Party series and the seventh entry in the series overall. The game was released in Japan on January 13, 2005, North America on March 28, 2005, Europe on June 10, 2005, and Australia on September 15, 2005. The game was re-released on the Virtual Console for the Wii U in 2014.
Mario Party Advance differs from other titles in the Mario Party series in its focus on one single-player mode rather than several multiplayer modes. However, traditional Mario Party gameplay is present in players choosing a character from the Mario franchise, moving around an interactive game board, and playing a variety of minigames.
Upon release, the game received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom panned its single-player focus. Retrospectively, Mario Party Advance is widely considered to be one of the worst games in the Mario Party series by critics. The game was succeeded by Mario Party 7 for the GameCube the same year of its release.