My strongest memories of Mario Party 1 were it being my mom's game essentially. It was the only video game she would ever play (until the Wii came along and she got more Mario Party/Wii Sports) but she got insanely good at it. She would just do the mini-game island over and over.
'No Game Mode' seems like a debugging or demo feature. I imagine if you're QA tasked with testing the boards, you'd prefer not to waste time playing the minigames over and over again. This would make navigating the board much faster and easier.
Love your iceberg its so much detail also if you hate Bowser in Mario 1 to 3 he's worse in Mario party 6 also I have played Mario Party 1 my hand is immune to the stick burn, also you forgot to mention the voices for Wario and Luigi's voices in the Japanese version were the localizer for the french and German of Nintendo for there region like Luigi is voiced by Julian Bardakoff France and Wario was voiced by Thomas Spindler from Germany.
So as a kid, I really wanted Mario Party 3 for my birthday when it came out. However the game I got was Mario Party 1 due to the dice block on the front showing a 3 😂. My uncle was like “That’s the one you wanted right”. Bless his heart
13:53 I never thought that, none of my friends ever thought that, none of our parent's ever thought that. I've literally never heard of anyone thinking that until this video just now. Have you never seen dice before?
hovering over the video and seeing a clip of someone absolutely BEATING that controller in Pokey Pummel... xD It's unironically my best game to this day because I'm so good at forcing myself to damn near have a seizure.
I always thought it was so far past fvcked up what they did to Bowser during that 'tug o war' mini game, they literally took Bowser and stuffed one of their friends inside him to wear the poor bastard as a fvckin suit, i understand he's done some awful things to the mushroom kingdom but that's just dark, no wonder he hates Mario and his friends so much.
I actually vividly remember as a kid having to play multiple rounds of the pedal power minigame in a mario party 1 session and i messed my hand up so bad that my palm started bleeding and a huge blister formed so i couldnt really grab stuff with that hand without it hurting. That was legitmately enough for me to never pick up the game ever again. For me the ultimate mario party will always be the 2nd. Three was ok but every mario party after three just felt completely mediocre to me.
