SS of the Week: Mario Party N64

Mario Party 64 

Let the games begin

My sister and I would play this game all night, every Christmas eve. Sure we played it other times, but somehow, this became the night. Our Nana would come and spend the night at our house, resulting in my sister giving up her bed and camping out in my room. This is what we did!

Let's get right to the pain factor, shall we? 

Just a few seconds and you'll be regretting it for days

Infamous Tug of War- 

Why was this so bad?

Well in order to play this game, and a couple others, you had to spin the joystick of the N64 around in a complete circle. Though you can do it with your fingertips, its way more efficient to take your palm of the hand on the controller, place it over the joystick and spin in a circle. This caused an instant bruise, cut, welt, whatever you want to call it. In fact, gamers were so notorious for this, Nintendo actually made a Glove, yes 1 glove you could receive from them if you sent in your receipt and UPC from the box. Well, it was a Christmas gift from Santa so though I tried, I never got the glove. It would have been cool but whatever. Heh I found a handy picture to capture the essence of this little story.

Does this look familiar? If not, you are doing it wrong.

The mini games you play to get coins to win the game come in 4 player, 3 vs 1 and 2 vs 2. Sometimes its basically the computer outweighing you or holding you down. With the controls of the two computer players being set to 'easy' this can pose a problem. 

Well, we didnt want the computer to come in first....

Screw over your friends! Jump on top of them and under the '? box' to take their coins and smush them so they cant get any coins themselves! Bwuhahaha

Screw your friends #2: Pick them up and rob their coins. 

(Plus its so funny to watch em wiggle.)

S.Y.F. #3: Bump them off the cliff by pretending to dangle on the side, move quick and side bomb them to victory!

More like screw yourself....Tap A!

More more more, AAAAAAA to live! (Or is it B??)

BBBBBB hurry!  eh this mini game sucks. Its not alot of fun and not a big payout unless you get the bag of coins which you probably will have to sacrifice so you can stay alive on a 10 second spazz game.

Not to mention you get screwed by the computer at every turn. One minute you are in first place with stars, the next BOOM! you got screwed. Your friend spent up their monies to screw you.

And here, the crappy Easy mode for your CPU ends with death to you - 

Here's to hoping you and your friend end up on the same side because the CPU is more like a big anchor (or shark or Satan) and will sink you and kill you until you freak out and curse out the character's name, and wish certain evil onto their soul.

Whooo getting a little carried away here....

Have the lamest partner, the CPU, tank you into last place with ease.

In conclusion, the word screwed comes up a half dozen times, which clearly indicates the fairness of the CPU and the outcome of the games.

Yes they went on to make sequels, yes we played them too, and yes they suck in their own special way, but none actually make you bleed like this game. Mario Party 64.

What the hell kind of hellish awesomeness is this, in conclusion, to definitely be played during the holidays, when its ok to screw your friends or sister! They get you back. Its all in good fun now.

Sounds like complaints, but it really is fun. How, well, that's a different explanation...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!