Gaddgets, invented by Professor E. Gadd, are interactive items such as a Morse code generator and a love meter.

Certain Gaddgets can also be played in multiplayer mode if players control different buttons on a single Game Boy Advance system.

[8] Mario Party Advance was subsequently showcased at E3 2004, with an original release date of December 6, 2004,[9] which was later pushed back to March 28, 2005.

[11] Mario Party Advance was released in Japan on January 13, 2005, in North America on March 28, 2005, and in Europe on June 10, 2005.

[1] The game was re-released on the Virtual Console for the Wii U in North America and Europe on December 25, 2014,[12] and in Japan on October 28, 2015.

Provo praised the "colorful" character sprites, but criticized the game's "bland" backgrounds and some of its minigames.

Reed said "a typical game within Mario Party Advance is often tedious, badly designed and completely lacking in any endearing qualities at all.

[...] Animation is virtually non existent, the tedious chatty exchanges that take place between characters lacks any imagination at all and the whole project just smells like something thrown together to meet a contractual obligation".

Reed concluded: "And if you haven't got the message yet, Mario Party Advance is possibly the worst videogame Nintendo has had the misfortune to publish.

The heart of the Mario Party series lies in its multiplayer, so while this new approach brought a few interesting ideas, it never achieved what made all the other games so enticing.