Mario Party 8 IPO date set

Nintendo Ltd Co’s (ADR:NTDOY) Mario Party 8 for the Wii will debut on the simExchange on Tuesday, January 30, 2007. It will be categorized under the Minigame genre Shares will open for purchase at 180 DKP (forecasts 1.8 million copies sold worldwide over lifetime). The release of this game is scheduled for February 8, 2007 in Japan, February 23, 2007 in Europe, and March 5, 2007 in North America. The game listing was first submitted by Zukaus. The game’s page is found here. The summary of the game is:

Mario Party8 is the eleventh installment of the Mario Party series and the first for the Nintendo Wii. Mario Party is a collection of 75 multiplayer minigames designed for the motion-sensing Wiimote.

Players choose among 14 Nintendo characters to compete in minigames that include: a game where players use the controller like a lasso to grab barrels, a game where players shake the controller to shake a soda can so that it spouts soda when opened, and a game where players hold the Wiimote horizontally and tilt the controller to tilt a platform to move marbles into corresponding tubes.

Like previous Mario Party games, there are power-ups that players can collect to aid their character in different situations. Mario Party 8 can be played 1v1, 2v2, 1v3, and competitive 4 player.