Durham County is governed by a five-member board of county commissioners, currently consisting of Chairman Michael Page, Vice Chairwoman Ellen Reckhow, Joe Bowser, Brenda Howerton and Pam Karriker.

This is all contained within the " Party Cube ", which grants the wishes of its users ; the story's climax comes in the form of Bowser, who wishes to disrupt the party with his own board, hosted by Koopa Kid.

All of the playable characters from the original game are still available, but this time, they are all dressed in costumes unique to the board players are playing on ( except for Bowser Land, on which they wear their usual attire ).

This is because the final board in this game, Bowser Land only requires the player to play all other boards to unlock.

Some spaces, specifically " happening " spaces, will incorporate the relevant theme ; for example, a giant robot resembling Mecha Bowser will shoot any character back to the start when landing on its " happening " space in the Toy Dream board.

After throwing fireballs and hitting Bowser with them 5 times, the game is cleared and the final board unlocked.

After each minigame, the meter on the screen will increase by 20 % and when the meter is full, then Bowser will appear and he will hinder the players depending on which board that the characters are currently playing.

Depending on the board, Bowser may destroy bridges, take stars from players, or change star locations.

On almost every board at some time, Bowser may take a photo as a " memento " of the vacation and take the players ' coins.

The cast is made up of the same characters from Mario Kart 64 ( Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Wario and Toad ).

According to this game, Peach was classified as lighter than Yoshi and Bowser was classified heavier than Donkey Kong, although most Mario games classify Peach being heavier than Yoshi while Bowser is lighter than Donkey Kong.

Although the term ' Koopa ' is a blanket term for the entire species of anthropomorphic turtles in the series, to which creatures such as Lakitu, Hammer Bros. and even Bowser belong, the term is often used to refer colloquially to this particular enemy.

Originally created by Shigeru Miyamoto, Peach is the Princess of the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, which is constantly under attack by Bowser, and often plays the damsel in distress role within the series and is the lead female.

In Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, she does show Bowser that she is capable of taking care of herself.

In Super Paper Mario, Peach is forced by Count Bleck to marry Bowser against her will, in order to unleash the destructive Chaos Heart.

She is later rescued by Mario and manages to convince Bowser to join their cause in stopping Bleck.

In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Peach is kidnapped on the day of her birthday by Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings.

She is also in Super Mario Galaxy 2 when Bowser kidnaps her and puts her in the center of the universe.

Bowser, also known as King Koopa, is a video game character and the main antagonist of Nintendo's Mario franchise.

Bowser is the leader and most powerful of the turtle-like Koopa race and is the greedy archnemesis of Mario beginning with his first appearance, in the game Super Mario Bros. His ultimate goals are to marry Princess Peach, defeat Mario, and conquer the Mushroom Kingdom.

Currently, Bowser is voiced by Kenny James.

Despite popular misconception, Bowser is, in fact, supposed to be a turtle, not a dragon.

Interestingly enough, the Korean name for the character Bowser / Kuppa is not Gukbap, but Kupa, which is essentially a phonetic round-trip translation.

Bowser is portrayed as the " King of the Koopas ", anthropomorphic turtles that inhabit the Mushroom Kingdom.

He returns in Super Mario Sunshine, in which his youngest, but favorite son, Bowser Jr., who is disguised as an evil version of Mario, kidnaps Peach.

In New Super Mario Bros., Bowser is the boss of the first world, which features a battle similar to that of Super Mario Bros. After being defeated, he falls into lava and transforms into a skeletal version of himself known as Dry Bowser.

He is eventually restored by Bowser Jr. and acts as the final world's boss along with his son.

Bowser appears as a playable character in the Mario Kart series and various Mario sport titles, such as Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games with its sequels Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games where he is one of the two main villains ( with Dr. Eggman ) in the Adventure Mode ( handheld versions only ).

" IGN editor Craig Harris described Bowser as the only " core Nintendo character over the past couple decades " to not have a starring role in a video game, and this game acts as his " big break ".

There are also rarer groups of minigames, such as the Bowser minigames requiring the loser to forfeit items or coins and the minimini games, which can only be accessed by characters reduced by the " Mini Mushroom ".

It's also the only Mario Party game to have Bowser as a playable character.

The game's story mode features Mario returning to the Mushroom Kingdom from a trip, only to discover that Bowser has started a construction campaign of building new hideouts.

Bowser Jr. ( クッパＪｒ ． Kuppa Junia ) is a fictional character ; the only child of Bowser in Nintendo's Mario franchise.

Bowser Jr .' s team also has players from disbanded teams that the player can recruit ; in which case the only mission objective is " Win the game.

Bowser Time may only occur once, or up to nine times.

In 2001, Slapshot issued a new album entitled Greatest Hits, Slashes and Crosschecks ( King Fisher / Century Media ) featuring re-recorded & re-mastered versions of classic Slapshot songs, which featured the only recordings of the band with David Link on bass and was the last recorded material with Mike Bowser on guitar.

Playing Bowser in all three Mario animated series, he is the only voice actor to appear in all three series as the same character.

He spent the next two years in the United States, supervising armament contracts, and became attracted to the country, fantasising of moving there with Bowser after the war.

Varina Davis adamantly denied ever hiring Bowser, although it would be unlikely she would have known of Bowser's real identity or admitted hiring her after the fact.

Recent research by Lois M. Leveen suggests that although Bowser used several pseudonyms during and after the war, making her contributions especially difficult to document, newly uncovered sources confirm her involvement in the Union espionage circle run by Van Lew.

" Baby Bowser ( character ) | Bowser " from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island ( 1995 ), after whom Jr. is modeled. Bowser Jr. is a yellow-skinned Koopa similar to his father, Bowser, with the same yellow and tan skin complexion, as well as a light green head and a tuft of red hair.

Bowser Jr. is modeled after Baby Bowser ( Bowser's infant form ) from the Yoshi series, and therefore stongly resembles his Father.

Bowser Jr. first appeared in Super Mario Sunshine, where he disrupted Mario's vacation with Princess Peach by painting the island of Isle Delfino with goop and then kidnapping her by framing Mario, after his father Bowser tricked him into thinking that Peach was his mother which he had to protect.

Both Bowser and Oliver lost their seats but Oliver continued to lead his Liberal Party as Premier of a minority government after the election ..

Despite Bowser's demise in the first level, this doesn't stop Bowser Jr. from running through the remaining worlds with Peach in tow, forcing Mario to chase after him before reaching Bowser's castle in world 8.

Around this time Mike Bowser decided to move to New York for a new job and after a guitar search that ended with Ed Lalli ( currently singing for The Welch Boys ) they returned to the studio for 2003's Digital Warfare ( I Scream Records ) followed by 2005's Tear It Down ( Thorp Records ), along with several more European tours.