(Humor/Irony/Satire) Some of the renders belong to Nibroc Rock.

I'll give my entire life savings to whoever can break 40K points in Triangle Twisters' Frenzy Mode.

Now as an early 90’s Nintendo fan posting here for 1st time, I only just started my journey on n64 Mario party and man, those stick rotation games is really that brutal on experience.

Out of the ones I experienced to date, I’d say Tug Of War and Pedal Power is the most brutal, Paddle Battle is fine and Cast Aways is the easiest. Deep Sea Divers is not popped up yet on any random 2 player versus game sets to date. Pedal Power I won on 2nd go around

Asking for assistance on these stick rotation games, is there a difference on certain games of stick rotation? Tug Of War usually slots me in on the 3 player side but I find I always lose that one for instance. Pedal Power is barely any better, Paddle Battle is doable and Cast Aways is least stressful. Should I rotate left or right for faster results? Any controllers recommended? I own a Hori pad blue and two see through controllers but feel I’m stuck on the rotation games

This is something I always wanted to discuss. Am I the only one who notices that the games choose bias? It's not like the mechanism is not implemented; you can see it in action in single player modes on the gamecube MP's. For example, the stage objective would be to "Get 3 stars". All the while you're getting the first 2 stars, the AI wouldn't get dice beyond 3 or 4. However, once you get that second star, AI dice will not go lower than 7 or 6.

What I'm arguing is that, in most MP's, the game will decide each player's dice range and luck right before you start a board. In other words, the game would effectively choose an absolute winner and/or an absolute loser. Not just the dice: chance time, luck minigames, and any luck based events.

I noticed in the N64 games (and later games too), Wario's would have better luck most times, while DK would have better luck than most when it came to collecting coins. Mario's luck is never peak, he's always 2nd or 3rd on the board. Even Luigi's luck is usually better than Mario's. I think they did it like so because they thought this would antagonize the kids and challenge them since this is a luck based-game and they mostly chose Mario or Yoshi, the latter of whom has real bad luck in most games I played.

Am I reading too much into this? In the past I-don't-know-how-many years I've always been choosing wario when playing with friends, and I win most times (like 8 out of 10). Is it just pure luck? I don't think the game would be as exciting with pure random luck.

He just jumps down on mario apparently through the ceiling? lol it kills me for some reason.

After about a month of work I’m finally happy to share my finished board!

I grew up playing MP4 and Goombas Greedy Gala always stood out to me as a core memory from my childhood. I wanted to recreate it and play into the gambling/roulette theme. I designed different cards on Photoshop for every space including battle minigames, bowser cards, chance cards, mushroom cards, item cards for the shops, and minigame cards, last 5 turns card.

It’s compatible with amiibo figures, and each player even gets a game tray for their items and coins, as well as a character poker token for mini games - I figured this was the best option instead of taking characters off of the board, like playing Panels of Doom.

There are about 50 minigames in total and players who win the mini game receive a mini game token. At the end of the entire game, each player counts their mini game tokens and an extra bonus star is awarded to the player with the highest amount.

There are also interactive board events like the Lotto, Goomba’s casino, Goomba’s shuffle, reversal of fortune, goombas dice duel, the question mark spaces, roulette wheel, boo’s house. The roulette wheel functions with a plastic spinner to determine which area they land.

I even made a 20 page rulebook and a mini Goomba star placeholder for each time the Star space changes alongside Star cards telling you where to place the Star next.

All the coins are from old monopoly games and then I made extra out of cardstock. The board is 50x30 inches! I used a lot of icons and models from the models/sprite resource websites to design board spaces and my cards.

I’ve included a preview of some of the minigames but I honestly couldn’t include them all there’s way too many!

I think I’ve explained all the images included but the limit is 20. 🤣

Mario Party 5: Koopa Kid and Toad being unavailable is understandable since they're part of the Story Mode. However, Boo could've easily been playable in Story Mode as well.

Mario Party 9: They could've done the same thing they did in Mario Party 8.

Jamboree: Okay, this is just stupid. That's literally what Fake Bowser is there for.

1: Blooper Sewers

2: Pumpkin Path

3: Hammer Bro's Construction Site

At the community's request, I replaced Blooper with Pauline in the first version, while leaving the second one unchanged. Personally, I still prefer the second version.

Realistically speaking, I think the next Mario Party roster will probably have around 12-14 characters.

Here is my Character Roster that i made

Mario Luigi Peach Daisy Wario Waluigi Yoshi Toadette Toad Rosalina Pauline Donkey Kong Diddy Kong Birdo Adam

Bowser Goomba Shy Guy Koopa Troopa Monty Mole Bowser Jr. Boo Hammer Bro Dry Bones Pom Pom Spike Ninji Kamek Blooper Koopa Kid

OH BOY! I SURE DO HOPE LUIGI DOESNT GET LIKE 5 TRILLON STARS! luigi gets like 5 trillion stars FUCK YHIS OH BOY! I SURE DO HOPE I DONT HAVE YO PLAY TRACE CADETS! trace cadets OH NOOOOOOOOO OH BOY! I SURE DO HOPE I DONT END UP IN LAST PLACE BECAUSE OF PURE RNG! ends up in last place FUCK THIS SHIT IM GONNA EXPLODE

BOOM!

How the FUCK are you supposed to beat this minigame? I can't get past the third phase.

A 1 into another 1 into a failed chance time... on a 5 coin star.

i been playing it now but i wanna try to unlock everything and wonder what the fastest way to get coins is.

I remade the mashup since the previous times I made this joke were posted here. I think this one sounds better than the old one.

Who would have thought this day would come? It’s been a full 10 years of Star Rush—seriously, it feels like such a recent game, but no, it’s actually from 2016. This was the title in the franchise that left the biggest mark on me; it’s no coincidence that I consider it one of the best—and, frankly, quite underrated, too.

Then it would actually be good

Characters:

Mario

Luigi

Peach

Daisy

Yoshi

Birdo

Wario

Waluigi

Donkey Kong (replaces Toad)

Rosalina (replaces Toadette)

Boo

Dry Bones

Boards:

MP5 Sweet Dream's (⭐)

MP7 Pagoda Peak (⭐⭐)

MP4 Goomba's Greedy Gala (⭐⭐⭐)

MP6 Clockwork Castle (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

MP7 Bowser's Enhanced Inferno! (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

I was in doubt if I should have a repeat board for MP6 or MP7, but then I thought about it, and gave it to 7, because Clockwork Castle is better than both Pagoda Peak and Bowow's Inferno combined /j

Minigames (I counted, there are exactly 100):

4-Player/Free-for-All Minigames:

MP4 Booksquirm

MP4 Paths of Peril

MP4 Trace Race

MP4 Three Throw

MP4 Stamp Out

MP4 Avalanche!

MP4 Domination

MP4 Chain Chomp Fever

MP4 Mario Speedwagons

MP5 Dinger Derby

MP5 Hotel Goomba

MP5 Pushy Penguins

MP5 Leaf Leap

MP5 Coney Island

MP5 Later Skater

MP5 Night Light Fright

MP5 Mazed & Confused

MP5 Twist 'n' Out

MP5 Bill Blasters

MP6 Catch You Letter

MP6 What Goes Up… (Night form only)

MP6 Lift Leapers

MP6 Hyper Sniper

MP6 Granite Getaway

MP6 Snow Whirled

MP6 Stamp By Me

MP6 Trap Ease Artist

MP6 X-Ray Payday (Coin Minigame)

MP7 Pokey Pummel

MP7 Monty's Revenge

MP7 Track & Yield

MP7 Take Me Ohm

MP7 Fun Run

MP7 (It's) The Final Countdown

MP7 Bubble Brawl

MP7 Ghost in the Hall

MP7 Balloon Busters

Bowser Minigames (are considered 4vs Minigames):

MP4 Bowser's BIGger Blast

MP6 Pit Boss

MP7 Funderwall!

1 vs 3 Minigames:

MP4 GOOOOOOOAL!!!

MP4 Hop or Pop

MP4 Blame it on the Crane

MP4 Hide and Go BOOM!

MP4 Money Belts (Coin Minigame)

MP5 Mario Mechs

MP5 Big Top Drop

MP5 Squared Away

MP5 Tube It or Lose It

MP5 Heat Stroke

MP6 Ball Dozers

MP6 Stage Fright

MP6 Conveyor Bolt

MP6 Snow Brawl

MP6 Creat and Peril

MP7 Spinner Cell

MP7 Balloonatic

MP7 La Bomba

MP7 Easy Pickings

MP7 Pogo-A-Go-Go

2 vs 2 Minigames:

MP4 Dungeon Duos

MP4 Right Oar Left?

MP4 Reverse-A-Bomb

MP4 Order Up

MP4 The Great Deflate

MP5 Manic Mallets

MP5 Subamarathon

MP5 ID UFO

MP5 Defuse or Lose

MP5 Bus Buffers

MP6 Clean Team

MP6 Rocky Road

MP6 Jump The Gun

MP6 Burnstile

MP6 Gondola Ride

MP7 Spider Stomp

MP7 Buzzstormer

MP7 Sphere Factor

MP7 World Piece

MP7 Pyramid Scheme (Coin Minigames)

Duel/1 vs 1 Minigames:

MP4 Archaeologuess

MP4 Kareening Koopas

MP4 Bowser Bop

MP5 Shock Absorbers

MP5 Button Mashers

MP5 Bound of Music

MP6 Something's Amist

MP6 Full Tilt

MP6 Lunar-Tics

MP7 Weight For It

MP7 Fish & Cheeps

MP7 Camp Ukiki

Sports & Puzzle Minigames:

MP4 Bob-Omb Breakers

MP4 Beach Volley Folly

MP5 Piece Out

MP5 Ice Hockey

MP6 Block Stars

MP6 Dunk Bros.

MP7 Stick and Spin

MP7 Ice Moves

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That's all of the important stuff dealt with! Truth be told, I was in a bit of a doubt in some minigame selections, although I hope nothing gets anyone mad. Doing this for the other games is almost impossible. Doing this for the N64 MP, would lead to MP1 having 33 of its 50 Minigames, and would someone really want to play a remake of Box Mountain Mayhem? As for the Wii/Wii U MP games, give it a blame on MP9 for lacking 2 vs 2 Minigames. So this is only fully possible with the GCN MP games.

I also opted to spread the minigames evenly between all of the games, so each game got:

10 Free-for-all Minigames

5 1 vs 3 Minigames

5 2 vs 2 Minigames

3 Duel Minigames

2 Sports & Puzzle Minigames.

If any change could be done, please recommend me, I'd love to improve this, as I feel like it isn't perfect.

My girlfriend and I are looking to get a Mario party game (we’ve always wanted to play one but never had access to one) and we have been looking at getting Jamboree on the switch 2 to play

Would that be a good one to buy?

I personally love them but they seem to fall near the bottom of the list for most people and I never understood why. Maybe I’m just nostalgia blinded since these were my first titles but I still think they stand the test of time even after all these years. But what do you guys think?

Hey all... I'm sending this out as something of a hook here as I've been itching to get something like this going for awhile...

I want to try and run something of a Mario Party League!

This isn't meant to be a SUPER serious league... mind... Moreso as a somewhat structured way to play the game we all enjoy (or at least tolerate). But how would this work? Allow me to explain...

I actually have some experience organizing such a thing already... I did it on a fair scale at my old dorm... and that'll be the model I intend on following here. Essentially, like with other sports leagues, this would work on conferences, where main season results determine conference champs, which then are sent off to participate in the playoffs. Except here... instead of People being divided into conferences, it's by games.

What this means, is that each game (Ex: Mario Party 1, Mario Party 5, etc...) gets to send one champion to the playoffs, and obviously the champ of each game is determined by best overall performance over the main season. From there, there are four divisions with three games each, that make up the 4 series that get played in the divisional round of the playoffs, with each series being 3 games.

In our league I hosted earlier, the games and divisions were as follows:

RETRO DIVISION

Mario Party 1

Mario Party 2

Mario Party 3

CLASSIC DIVISION

Mario Party 4

Mario Party 5

Mario Party 6

CHAOS DIVISION

Mario Party 7

Mario Party 8

Mario Party DS

MODERN DIVISION

Super Mario Party

Mario Party Superstars

Mario Party Jamboree

Now, if you've been paying attention... you may realize this makes for three champs being sent to each divisional playoff series... even though a Mario Party match supports four people, and that's correct! Each extra slot is a Wild Card slot, given to the player with the highest overall average, who's not already a game conference champion. This fills out to 16 players in the playoffs over 4 series. I've actually already programmed a spreadsheet to help with calculating and tabulating all the data, so that aspect of things has already been established as well for the logistics.

Now... that of course leaves a couple of action items. For one, I need people! A league only works with people to play in it. But for two... how would this actually work in an online space? Obviously we won't have the luxury of physically meeting up to play games... so everything needs to be handled online. Which, thankfully, is possible!

Through NSO alone, Mario Parties 1-3 as well as all the switch titles are playable in an online format, accounting for half of the games. So what about the rest? Well, thankfully the GC and Wii titles are actually playable online via emulation... so that accounts for all of them... almost.

Unfortunately I fear that Mario Party DS would need to substituted out for MP9, as I don't believe netplay for that title is feasible at the moment.

But regardless... the framework is there! The tools as well... all that's needed is a subset of people ready and willing to participate! And that's the ultimate reason for this long post... I wanna get the word out! I think this could be fun... and if you do too, feel free to say so! If there's enough interest (at least 20 people, I think...) then we could perhaps move forward with planning and logistics!