Mario Party 2 (N64)

Many people will ask themselves what the point is in playing a computer game that mimics a real-life board game. Its certainly true to say that games like Risk and Cluedo are much more fun to play with a board and pieces that you can actually touch. The likes of Snakes and Ladders, The Game of Life and other dice rolling games would similarly suffer from computerisation. With Mario Party 2 though I was surprised, largely due to all the innovative and addictive mini-games that are integral to the gameplay. Like its predecessor, Mario party 2 is a multiplayer game. OK, so you can play as a single player against 3 computer guys, and that’s certainly better than ...

I wish Mario was holding an actual party - I would love to see the portly plumber juking and jiving on the dance floor while sampling some of Luigi's bolognaise dip and playing pin the tail on the Yoshi! As it is, I guess we'll just have to make do with Mario Party 2, the follow-up to last years multiplayer classic. Many people were sceptical before the original was released, saying that the idea of a video game based on a board game simply couldn't be fun, and that Nintendo were exploiting the Mario name. Well, we know now that this was not the case (unless of course you don't like Mario Party), and so we can rejoice as Nintendo and developers Hudson ...

Just like a board game Mario Party 1 was great fun, so here is the new version, ‘originally’ titled Mario Party 2. If you never played the original, the game is very similar to a board game, you roll a virtual dice to take your turn and then whatever space you land on deems what happens. There are three types of space; blue, red and green. When all the players have taken one turn there is a mini game to be played; the type of game is defined by the colour space the players have landed on. If all the players have landed on the same colour a four player game is played, if one player has a different colour a one vs. three player game and if two ...