Major Game Anniversaries in February 2019
Mario Party – 20th Anniversary
February might be a quiet month traditionally for high-profile video game releases, but the original Mario Party came to N64 on Feb. 8, 1999.
Gamers in the US had to wait a little while longer to get their hands on it, though, since it first released in Japan just under two months earlier. It still went on to be one of the best-loved games on the platform, though.
It focused on the classic Mario Party board game style, featuring 50 unique mini-games that see players battle it out to get the most stars and coins that they can.
Just as the rest of the Mario Party series has been, the N64 game was designed to be played in groups, but it featured a single-player mode called Mini-Game Island that saw you work your way through its set of mini-games.
The most recent game in the series came to Switch just last year, with it returning to the board game style that the original introduced.
