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Nintendo recently promised all three N64 installments of Mario Party would be added to Nintendo Switch Online at some point. Guess that point is now…or two weeks from now. The first two games in the series will join the library on the same day, November 2. The third is still on the way.
Introduced in the early months of 1999, Mario Party was a completely different type of Mario game, taking place on a game board and meant for multiple players. It resembles a traditional board game with Mario characters moving across a track depending on dice rolls, but once someone lands somewhere interesting, the game flips into a zany minigame that sees the players competing for points that can flip the leaderboard. A Mario Party game isn’t over until it’s over — anyone can take the win.
The original Mario Party is most notorious for a minigame that required the players to twirl the analog stick as quickly as possible. Doing this with your palm pressed against the stick would cause blisters, and...
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