Mario Party 8

Mario Party 8 is a party video game, the eighth installment in the Mario Party series, and is the first title in the series to be released for the Wii. It is also the first Mario Party title to have the ability to use Mii characters. It was released in North America on May 29, 2007, in Europe on June 22, 2007, in Australia on July 19, 2007, and in Japan on July 26, 2007. It was originally released in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2007. However, some retailers were reporting that it was supposedly withdrawn from shelves because some copies included the word "spastic", which is considered a... highly offensive word in the UK for referring to disability. The game was eventually re-released in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2007 with the word now used "erratic" instead. Mario Party 8 was followed by Mario Party DS in late 2007, and Mario Party 9 in 2012. Like previous Mario Party Titles, Mario Party 8 features Mario series characters in which four human- or computer-controlled characters compete in a board game interspersed with minigames, and was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo.
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