. "Mario Party (Japanese: \u30DE\u30EA\u30AA\u30D1\u30FC\u30C6\u30A3, Hepburn: Mario P\u0101ti) is a party video game series featuring Mario franchise characters in which four human- or computer-controlled characters compete in a board game interspersed with minigames. The series was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo; the arcade version was developed by Capcom."@en .