Pool Buoy
- Not to be confused with Pool Boy.
| Pool Buoy | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
| Appears in | Mario Party: Island Tour | ||
| Type | General minigame | ||
| Time limit | Aproximately 40 seconds | ||
| Music track | Pleasantly Moving Along | ||
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Pool Buoy (known as Beach Ball Bedlam in British English) is one of the General minigames from Mario Party: Island Tour. The American English name is derived from "pool boy" and "pull buoy", a float used to aid in swimming.
GameplayEdit
The players are inside beach balls in a circular swimming pool. They can move by sliding the 
on the ball on the bottom screen. A Lakitu keeps roaming above them throwing flag buoys for them to collect. Red buoys are worth one point, while golden buoys are worth three. The player with the most points wins the game.
ControlsEdit
American EnglishEdit
- – Roll the ball to move
British EnglishEdit
- – Slide the ball to move.
In-game textEdit
- Rules – American English "Race around the pool, and collect as many flag buoys as possible."
- Rules – British English "Collect the flags Lakitu throws."
See alsoEdit
Names in other languagesEdit
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | プールでフラッグあつめ[?] Pūru de furaggu atsume |
Collect Flags at the Pool | |
| Dutch | Lakitu's Ballenbad[?] | Lakitu's Ball Bath | |
| French (NOA) | Droit sur les drapeaux[?] | Straight to the Flags. (Probably from the expression "Straight to the Point") | |
| French (NOE) | Drapeaux sur l'eau[?] | Flags on water (Pun with "Bateaux sur l'eau") | |
| German | Schwimmbad-Rolleo[?] | Swimming Pool Rolleo | |
| Italian | All'ultima boa[?] | To the last buoy | |
| Portuguese | Bolas Flutuantes[?] | Floating Balls | |
| Russian | Буря в бассейне[1] Burya v bacceyne |
Storm at the pool. "Буря" is a pun on "буй" (buoy). | |
| Spanish | ¡Balones al agua![?] | Balls in the Water! |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Extracted from mg_inst.msbt, nested in languages/EU_Russian.zdat