First Mario Party game to have items.
In every board (except Bowser Land), the characters get dressed up in costumes depending on which board the player chooses: Pirate Land: Pirates; Western Land: Cowboys; Space Land: Astronauts; Mystery Land: Detectives; Horror Land: Wizards.
Contains a total of 6 boards.
This is the first Mario Party game to be released on the Virtual Console in December 20, 2010.
Luigi and Yoshi, usually green and blue respectively, often switch colors, such as in Bumper Balls. In later games, Luigi was assigned blue and Yoshi green, until character-specific color coding was dropped entirely in Mario Party 7 (2005).