Mario Party 1 And 2 Join Nintendo Switch Online November 2
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 Nintendo was forced to offer free gloves to anyone who had issues. But gloves aren’t hard to find — the bigger problem is that the analog sticks were easy to break, which led to a lot of busted controllers. Controllers are a lot more expensive than gloves! We’re sure not using the N64 retro controllers to play this one.
Yeah yeah, Mario Party, but what everyone wants to know is, where is the promised return of Goldeneye 007? The announcement of the next batch of NSO titles was heralded with the reveal that the long-lost, highly influential shooter would finally be re-released. Nintendo still won’t say exactly when…but the rumor on the street is ’round Christmas.
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