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This FAQ was made for the NES FAQ Completion Project. You could contribute to
this yourself! Just check out Devin Morgan's web site about it:
http://faqs.retronintendo.com
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Table of Contents
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1. - Introduction
2. - Air Hockey
3. - Hockey
4. - Pinball
5. - Basketball
6. - Mind-Q
7. - Disclaimer
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1. - Introduction
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Game Party is an old compilation NES game that allows you to play 5 different
games on one cartridge. Like most compilation games, this one features a list
of cheesy and simple games, and also, like most other compilation games, these
can't really hold your attention. The games are pretty dull to play against the
computer, but it can be fun for two player games. Which is obviously suggested
by the game's title: "Game Party." The games involved are Air Hockey, Hockey
(More commonly known as Bubble Hockey or Foosball), Pinball, Basketball, and
Mind-Q. So grab a friend and start playing some good multiplayer games from
decades ago!
I am going to list the menu options here since it's the same for most of the
games. These are for the options for Air Hockey, Hockey, and Basketball. The
Pinball game allows you to choose up to four players and then you will start. I
will explain the menus of the Mind-Q game in that game section of this guide.
When you start a game, you can choose between 1 player or 2 players. If you
select one player, you can choose boy or girl and then the difficulty level.
Each difficulty level will make it more difficult and change the appearance of
the computer. After you select those, you can select the times and the sounds.
If you select two player, you both select your characters, then you can select
the times and sounds. After you select the time and sound for either game mode,
you will start the game.
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2. - Air Hockey
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Controls
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D-Pad - Move Paddle
A - No Use
B - No Use
Start - No Use
Select - No Use
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Strategies
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There are power ups in this game but they don't really do much. In fact, there
are only really two power ups even though it looks as if there are several moer
than that. Every twenty or so seconds, you will see a pill pop out of the
center. It will alternate sides and once it hits the net, it's gone. The pink
pill makes your paddle smaller so avoid this one as best as you can. The other
ones will just make you normal size, so if you get a pink pill, just pick up th
next one to get back to the normal size.
I'm sure you all know the goal of air hockey. You have to hit the puck on the
table toward the opposing goal. You need to beat the opposing player and get
the puck into their net. A good way to beat the opposing player is to make it
bank off the side walls as you move the puck toward their net. Hopefully you
can get a quick hit to make the puck move faster and even if they do try to
defend against it, often times, it will take a funny bounce off the back of
their paddle and into their own net.
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3. - Hockey
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D-Pad -
Left - Move players to left or move goalie up
Right - Move players to right or move goalie down
Up - No Use
Down - No Use
A - Spin Counter-Clockwise
B - Spin Clockwise
Start - No Use
Select - No Use
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When you start this game, you are given the option to play hockey or soccer.
The layout of the game is exactly the same. The rails will move the players in
the same directions and the players will be in the same spot. The only
difference is the models and how the game looks. So if you like hockey more, I
encourage you to play the hockey version, and if you like soccer more, I
encourage you to play the soccer version.
This game is more frequently known as Bubble Hockey or Foosball. With that
said, you should immediately know how to play this game. Move the players on
their rails while you gain posession of the ball/puck and try to bang it home
into the opposing net. This game is really difficult to score in so be careful.
When the opposing player is in posession of the puck/ball and have a pretty
clear shot to the net, I usually forget about the other players and simply
control the goalie. Also when they have the ball/puck in the corner behind your
net, make sure that your players are far away from your net. Often times the
computer will bank a shot off of your player and into your net.
When you have posession of the puck/ball in the offensive zone, move slowly.
Moving too quickly will often make you lose posession. Take your time and aim
your shot to try to bang it behind the goalie. If you have it behind the
opposing net, try to just throw it in front of the net. Often times, you will
get a lucky bounce and it will bounce right into the opposing net. If you have
the ball/puck in your own zone, I usually just try to hit it aimlessly towards
the other net. Hopefully you can get a lucky bounce to get it in the net or
maybe a good pass to an open teammate.
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4. - Pinball
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D-Pad -
Left - Left Flipper
Right - No Use
Up - No Use
Down - No Use
A - Right Flipper
B - Bump
Start - No Use
Select - No Use
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There are plenty of paddle in this game, unfortunately it doesn't make up for
how buggy it is. The ball almost always takes abnormals bounces. The paddles
usually give minimal power to any shot so it's usually hard to get anywhere if
you're near the bottom. And to top it off, the ball gets stuck on the paddles
by itself all the time. I personally suggest avoiding this game in the
cartridge at all costs since it's by far the worst pinball game I have ever
played, but if you choose to ignore my warning and want to learn about the
game, read below.
I'm not going to bother describing how to play pinball since I'm sure if you
know how to use a computer, you know how to play pinball. There are two sets of
paddles on the top portion. There are bouncers to the left and tubes to the
right. You get points for hitting the bouncers or going through the tubes. I
guess the point is to hit the torches which will open up the path to a small
hole. Hit the hole and the ball will get stuck there while a man appears in
front of the dinosaur in the middle. You can throw the torch at the dinosaur
with the A button. It makes a loop and if you time it right, you can move to
the torch on its way back and press A again to catch it. It doesn't seem to
give extra points if you catch it and throw it again and the dinosaur never
seems to die, which makes this part of the game pointless.
After the paddles on the top portion, you will notice a series of tubes. You
can simply watch the ball as it makes its way to the bottom of the game. You
can always hit the ball into the tubes and they will make it all the way to the
top portion of the game again. The bottom section is bigger but there still
isn't much to the game. You will notice dinosaur skulls on the sides along the
middle of the portionthat also acts as paddles. If you see smoke coming out of
the volcano on the bottom, the ball will pop back out when it falls in there.
The small rocks also have tiny paddles on them but the chances of hitting them
are basically slim to none. The top right has a couple bouncers and there's a
bird flying around the top that doesn't do anything but get in the way. That's
really all there is to this game.
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5. - Basketball
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D-Pad - Move Across Numbers
A - Select Number
B - No Use
Start - No Use
Select - No Use
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This game is actually very intersting. The way it works is the ball will bounce
around and eventually land in one of the holes. Each hole is disgnated with a
number and you have to select that number along the top portion of the screen
to hit the ball toward the other net. Keep an eye on the scoreboard in the
middle of the court along the top of the screen to see what number you're
supposed to be hitting. Player one will always hit the white squared, black
numbered numbers while player two will always hit the black squared, white
numbered numbers. Below is the layout of each stage, so you can see where each
number is. The number closer to the left is the player shooting to the right
and the number close to the right is for the player shooting to the left. A
star in the chart below designates that that player can't possibly hit the ball
from that hole.
1/1 12/* 9|9 */12 1/1
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NET 2/* 13/6 10|10 6/13 */2 NET
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3/3 14/* 11|11 */14 3/3
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6. - Mind-Q
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D-Pad - Cycle through Fruits
A - Select Fruit
B - Finish Turn
Start - No Use
Select - Hint (Hint is in Japanese)
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The hint option is in Japanese so it doesn't really help you. After playing
around with the game, I figured out what they meant. The point of the game is
to mix and match the fruit to try to figure out the hidden pattern on the top
of the screen. You are given nine chances to try to guess the combination
right. You should start by choosing all different types of fruit, After you
complete your first turn, you might see two different colored dots to the left
of your turn.
There are two different types of dots that you will see in this game. The white
dots are for fruits that match in the correct location. The red dots are for
correct fruits that are in the wrong location. The problem with this is that
they don't designate which fruits are correct and which ones are in the correct
location so you have to mess around with it for a while.
This game requires a lot of thinking and strategizing. I generally start by
cycling through all the fruits in the first two turns. I know there are only
seven fruits, so I suggest just trying to get lucky by repeating one of the
fruit from the first turn to see if that would be one of the correct ones. You
should only do this if your first turn doesn't show four dots. You just have to
take a look at what is correct on one turn and on the other turn as well. There
are a total of 2,401 different combinations, so it will last you a long time if
you are interested in the game, but it's not one that can be easily described
or beaten. Just work away trying to knock off the bad fruit and putting them in
the proper order before the end of the game.
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7. - Disclaimer
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