Development
Like most games in the Mario Party franchise, Mario Party 3 was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo. It is the first Mario Party game to feature Luigi's main voice, Peach's main voice, and Wario's main voice replacing the voice clips from the first two Mario Party games, and also is the last Mario game where Princess Daisy appears in a yellow and white dress, and with long brown hair, tan skin, and her classic red crown, and Princess Peach's classic main dress, as well as the last Mario game (until New Super Mario Bros. Wii) in which Yoshi's classic "record-scratching" voice is used. It is also the first Mario Party game to have multiple save slots and the first to have Princess Daisy and Waluigi as playable characters. It's also the final Mario game for the Nintendo 64.
On August 9, 2000 while Nintendo is about to release Mario Tennis in the United States, Nintendo Power Source updated its website with details on Mario Party 3 to be featured at the firm's Space World show, which happened on August 24 at a pre-event press briefing. Nintendo Power Source posted only one screenshot of the game on there site at the time. Nintendo later released 12 more screenshots of the game's adventure boards in January 2001. The game was about 70% completed during the time being.
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