Mario Party is the first board game in the Mario Party series as party video games for Nintendo 64 console. The game was released on February 8, 1999 in North America around two months after its inaugural release in Japan on December 14, 1998. Europe saw its release on March 9, 1999.

It's a simple traditional board game of moving ahead on the spaces of the board by rolling the dice. Spaces where the players land have something or the other in store for the players on them.

The aim of the game for the players is to collect as many stars as they can. The one with the highest number of stars in possession becomes the winner as the game comes to end. At one time there is only one of it on the board, which the players need buying by paying a certain number of coins. Once it is bought, a new one appears on the board for the players to vie anew for it.

Stars and coins can be stolen from other players with the help of Boo who charges his fee for the help offered for stars whereas coin stealing is free. Coins are earned by landing on the blue spaces as well as by winning mini games which are there 56 in numbers. Landing on red spaces or on a Browser space loses coins as well.

There are six playable characters named Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, Princess Peach, Wario, and Yoshi. Mini games that are played at the end of each round of turns along with some other situations are divided in four categories named four-player, 2-on-2, 1-on-3, and one-player.

The popularity of Mario Party - the first board game in the Mario Party series as party video games for Nintendo 64 console - led to its seven sequels named by numbers added to it as Mario Parties 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, along with Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and E-Reader versions as on date, all of them being hot cakes to sell.

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Mario Party 2 is the second board game in the Mario Party series as party video games for Nintendo 64 console. The game was released on January 24, 2000 in North America more than a month after its inaugural release in Japan on December 17, 1999. Europe saw its release much later on October 12, 2000.

There are six playable characters named Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong who all keep changing their costumes as the new boards keep coming in the play. Bowser and Koopa Troopa never appear on the board though they have other roles to play.

There are many mini-games categorized as four-player, one vs. three, two vs. two, and battle games that come under play depending on the number of characters either gaining or else losing the coins and the stars. If all the four players are either gaining or losing coins, four-player is played. If three are gaining and one is losing or vice versa, one vs. three is played and so on. In all 43 new mini-games are introduced in the second version of the party keeping the old ones intact and some of them renamed. Three new types of mini-games are also introduced named as the Battle mini-game, the Item mini-game, and the Duel mini-game.

New buildings - the Item Shop and the Koopa Bank - as well as new spaces - the Battle Space, the Item Space, and the Bank Space - have been introduced in the game too. They mostly deal with initiating mini-games, depositing and disbursing coins in/on them.

Mario Party 2 - the second board game in the Mario Party series as party video games for Nintendo 64 console - has been welcomed all over with its new features that it has come up with.

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