My friend's MP8's title screen always had Bowser and DK in the portraits as well, similar to this: In Mario Party 9, a new form of gameplay was introduced in this game, retiring the old format seen in the prior eight titles: players move all at once through the board in a vehicle (a car in Toad Road, a magic carpet in Boo's Horror Castle and a legged machine in Bob-omb Factory, for example), still taking turns rolling, moving from a starting point to to an ending point.

Mario Party 9 Project Hudson is a re cut and a hack of Mario Party 9, for the Nintendo Wii, and uses elements and characters from the Hudson Soft based Mario Parties. For the first time in the franchise, boss battles crash the party and challenge players to compete to defeat a common enemy.
This has been bothering me ever since I was a kid. For the first time in a decade, Nintendo is developing Mario Party in-house. Gameplay:

Rivals become teammates to battle Bowser in this latest round of awesome minigames! In this game, players can now play together on a car while roaming around the board. Mario Party 9 (Japanese: マリオパーティ9, Hepburn: Mario Pāti Nain) is a party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii. Contents[show] Gameplay Very much like Mario Party 9, the Car Format is still in the game.

Mario Party 9 is the ninth home console installment of the Mario Party series, the second and final Mario Party installment for the Wii.The game was the first in the series to be developed by Nd Cube instead of Hudson Soft.It is also the eleventh game in the main series (15th in Japan). The ninth main installment in the Mario Party series, it was announced at E3 2011 and released in Europe, North America, and Australia in March 2012, followed by Japan a month later. Mario Party 9 was announced during E3 2011 for the Nintendo Wii. 20 Minutes of Mario Party 9 Gameplay February 25, 2012 February 25, 2012 by Michael Koczwara Plenty of new footage has been released by SuperSoluce , a French website that has gotten their hands on Mario Party 9. It is the ninth game in the Mario Party franchise, the twelfth overall and the second for the Wii console.

Summary: The party is back and bigger than ever in the Mario Party 9 game for Wii, featuring all-new ways to play!
The game also has new boss battles, new minigames, and all new boards. My wife, nephews and I, however, have played all the mario Party games over the years and we think that 8 is BY FAR the worst one made. The only changes are the following: Mini-games are not triggered by landing on spaces representing them.