Development
Mario Party 4, like all games in the Mario Party series, except for Mario Party 9, was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo. It is the last Mario Party game to have Donkey Kong as a playable character, and it is also the last Mario Party game to have Wario wearing his classic long-sleeve shirt. It's also the first Mario Party game to have Yoshi's main voice replacing his classic "record-scratching" voice from the first three Mario Party games, and the first to have default teams. It's also the first Mario game to feature Princess Peach and Princess Daisy's current main dresses, including Daisy's short orange hair, with her current gold crown, and normal skin color. It's also the only Mario Party game to have Bowser as a playable character.
The game was first announced in a 2002 Nintendo press conference in Tokyo, with the announcements made by Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata. It was targeted as part of the 2002 roster of Nintendo games, which they rated as their "biggest year" for software at the time. Nintendo presented a playable demonstration of the game at the E3 conference of 2002, featuring a limited set of minigames. The game featured voice acting from Charles Martinet (Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi), Jen Taylor (Peach, Daisy and Toad), and Kazumi Totaka (Yoshi), all three of whom worked on previous games in the Mario franchise.
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