Mario Party, developed by Hudson Soft, combines a board-game-style tabletop with dozens of minigames disputed between turns, in a formula built end to end for couch multiplayer that became one of Nintendo's most enduring signatures.
This first entry laid the groundwork for a saga still publishing new games more than two decades later, and it also became associated with an uncomfortable curiosity: the minigame played by spinning the joystick bare-handed caused real blisters in many players of the time.
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