Development
Like previous Mario Party Titles, Mario Party 8 was developed by Hudson Soft. It was first shown at E3 2006, which the Nintendo World demo of Mario Party 8 had six samples, including Barrel Lasso were players roll the controller like a lasso to grab barrels that are rotating around on a platform which different barrels give different point values, Can Shake which the goal is to shake a can of soda and make it shoot out the tallest stream by shaking the Wii Remote, A split-screen game called the Colored Ball Game were players are seated in a ship and marbles either green or purple in color fall from above and players hold the Wiimote horizontally in their hands and tilt it to tilt an on-screen platform that filters the marbles into like-colored tubes, Flag Raise, Jet Ski were players ride jet skis by steering by rotating the controller up and down like a steering wheel, and a 4-way split screen Shooting Gallery which players use the Wii Remote to aim at a target which the bullseye is different for each target.
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