Cyber Scamper

Cyber Scamper is a 4-player and duel minigame, part of Mario Party DS. One of the harder minigames in the collection, it is a hectic acid trip minigame where the characters race on a hazardous course of tiles that switch on-and-off every second.

Setting
The characters from the start are stuck within an arcade machine - which is revealed at the end should multiple characters make it to the finish. They are within what well, seems to be a representation of a virtual software world in a computer device.

In the dark background, a multitude of other tile courses can be seen alongside the main tile course used for the characters to race on.

Gameplay
The aim of the game is to navigate through this difficult, trippy course of flashing light-powered tiles and make it to the finish, or be the last one standing. Use the control pad to move and the A button to jump on opponents or across spaces.

The entire course is composed of light tiles in different colours of pink, green and yellow, which all flash on and off in an alternating pattern; the characters have to run across the tiles as they switch between light and dark every second. However, there are holes scattered in between the tiles - memorise where the safe footing as the lights flash and watch out for the areas that always remain dark.

As well as the start and the end, hroughout the course there are a couple of large blue tiles which always illuminate, and can be considered as 'checkpoints'. Use the blue tiles to quickly plan out the zones ahead, which become progressively harder with thinner footings and larger presence of holes.