Mario Party on Portables | Taking The Party On The Go 

You didn’t mention the best thing about DS: it came with download play, meaning only one person needed the game for everyone to play the mini games. Awesome feature

Mario Party DS is legit really fun and underrated.

The best part of Island Tour is the Bowser map where the goal is to lose. It's honestly a really fun gimmick and I'd lose to see it return. You fight to lose minigames first. You try to move as few spaces as possible, etc. really fun.

That feeling when you got 0.0 in. on that one chalkboard mini game in Mario Party DS was indescribable...

I played Mario Party DS sooo much as a kid... good times

2:45 The whole point of the GBA Mario Party game asking all of those deep personal questions is because the Gameboy Advance secretly supports a wifi connection and now some Japanese programmer who worked on the game, knows your personal information........

The irony is that Mario Party Advance is one of, if not the least advanced Mario Parties

“Shouldn’t Top 100 be on the Switch?” This aged well.

0:13 "Getting together with a few friends to mash some buttons" *Shows footage of a motion control minigame*

I remember getting Mario Party DS for Christmas when it was new. And as if it was a miracle, it's the ONLY Mario Party game I have, so I didn't lose friends...not that I had any. Maybe I could have made some friends with the falling stick toy, that would have made me one of the cool kids.

Mario Party DS aged so well, it's so addictive.

Mario Party DS will always hold a special place in my heart.

5:16 The stick falls Dante: *This party's gettin' crazy!*

March: *Exists* AntDude: “I’m just going to pretend like I never saw that”

DS and Mario Party 8 were my life when I was younger, and finally yesterday I beat DS's story mode after years which was really cool

I remember playing Mario Party DS when I was younger and being like “this is actually heat.” Then I remembered it recently and went back to play it in case I was blinded by nostalgia, but it’s actually pretty compotent and had some great modes looking at it in retrospect.

The secret thing in Advance comes back in a Link Cable mode called "Secret Battle", first to win 5 minigames and you get to see the secret of the other player.

2:47 if someone is actually wondering, the silliest secret is the punishment for the one who loses in the multiplayer mode, which when i played with my brother it sure made me not want to play the game anymore

Finally, seeing some other Mario party DS lovers. Life complete

Mario Party DS is a guilty pleasure of mine, I loved playing that years ago! It's a shame we never really got the chance to see a proper follow-up to that style of Mario Party game.

Ant Dude gets his Knuckles impression on in Mayrio Month.

Mario Party DS is still my favorite mario party. So many fun times and good memories with it.

Bro shout out to all the kids who played Mario party ds with their friends during lunch.

Mario Party DS is and will probably always be my favorite game in the series (including console games)

that feeling when the stick falls in the direction you predicted it would:

Mario Party DS is one of my favorites mainly due to nostalgia and because the boards are my favorite

1:07 for a second, I thought mario had a knife

0:09 My family- *loud screaming and items bring thrown*

Oh boy, Mario Party DS! Now that's a game I've always wanted to see more coverage of! Oh and also Advance and whatever the heck they did on the 3DS. I guess those should be mentioned too.

Yoshi looks high in his artwork on star rush and top 100 “I was cursed with this knowledge so now I’m paying it forward” thank you Anthony for that quote.

Mario Party DS always gave me a summertime vibe. The music, the backgrounds in the levels and the minigames themselves just scream summer to me. It's so freaking nostalgic.

I just realized that Mario Party Advance has an extremely similar art-style to Superstar Saga on GBA. It becomes especially apparent when you look at the ground textures in that Chain Chomp minigame...

16:18 ok I know it's probably just a coincendence, but seeing Daisy at a difficulty of "Very Hard" here makes me wonder if that was a Chuggaconroy reference relating to Chugga's Lost Innocence.

Honestly, Star Rush is one of my favorite Mario Party games period. It has a lot to do with how it was a good time waster to play around with during a rough time in my life. I appreciate the Toad Scramble and Balloon Battle modes for being a different take on the series which was nothing like the old games, obviously, but they also still felt like an interesting new way to at least handle the board games as actual board games if we weren't getting the original formula back... before the original formula came back. And while I appreciate them, they aren't why the game is so personal to me, as that is Coinathlon and to a lesser extent the Challenge Tower that managed to be super important to my mental health for a time. Like, even now, if I'm just wanting to play some game while listening to a video or lurking in a stream, Coinathlon is an option that I return to every now and again, because that mode is brilliant and if there's one thing I wish they would bring back in the future, that would be it. And the other 3DS titles are okay, nothing special, and I enjoyed them. But I agree, it's stupid how Top 100 chose games so unevenly and didn't include Dungeon Duos. And they really should've taken one board from each game, with the appropriate gameplay. Sure, people would've still complained about it not being on Switch, but at least it would've signaled the return of the series roots before Super Mario Party did and also would've likely been way better received as a result. Also, I'm glad we're past the "WHY IS THIS NOT ON SWITCH!?" craze from near the 3DS' lifespan, since it always just made me roll my eyes since it was all budget titles clearly meant to wring the 3DS for just a little more cash, but that's just me.

14:50 This is Nintendo. They MUST do something that doesn't make sense. At the same time, we'd see the Joycon drift faster.

Sometimes, I think about how NDCube fully acknowledged that MP9's car system was bad, so they took a more traditional approach in MP: Island Tour... ...only to reuse the car system in MP10 anyway, with basically no improvements

I just wanna say that I love the new artwork for all of these thumbnails! Whoever made them is super talented!

I loved Mario Party DS. My siblings and I all had DSs and my friend sold his to me so on long family car rides we would play the nearly every free for all mini game. Great times...

I remember growing up playing Mario Party DS. It was a blast to play the rather creative minigames made for the DS. The concept of having bosses after a stage was also mind blowing for me and some of the pictures straight up looked menacing for 7 year old me. It was my first mario party and I loved it so much.

“Mario Party 6 is best because of Day/Night” Horror Land: Am I a joke to you?

Personally, I thought Island Tour was pretty good, with the Card Board being my favorite. Honestly, Island Tour was my favorite out of the ND Cube Mario Party games.

Island tour is amazing, I still revisit it often during trips for the Bowser Tower mode & to play on some boards like the kamek one

Mario Party DS is actually my favourite entry in the entire series, it’s the one I go back to most when I wanna play with friends, and only needing one copy with download play is a plus. The carried boards and ways to collect stars are all super memorable. Defiantly peak Mario Party for me.

Star rush is actually my favorite Mario party, I really loved toad scramble I thought it was really fresh

I really like Star Rush. I had a lot of fun playing that game... also, Challenge Tower is so fun to play!

FUN FACT: In my country (The Netherlands) with the exception of Mario Party 9, almost all the ND Cube Mario Party Games (Plus Wii Party and Wii Party U) are translated in Dutch as well as the voice clips of the announcer.

It only appeared for a split second but I'm very glad to know that Face Lift made its way into The Top 100. That was always my favorite minigame from the first two games.

i loove how mario party superstars just proves that putting care into games makes a game from horrible to perfect

15:41 I like how the button combination spells baby

The first Mario Party game I played was the DS one at the 2010 new year's eve, at my uncle house. Damn, I played just the first board, but it feels so nostalgic, even more than playing Mario Party 8 with friends some years after.

Mario Party DS was my childhood! That and Mario Cart were what introduced me to Mario as I didn’t game a lot growing up… well until I got Animal Crossing Wild World of course!

Alternate title: Man loves making sticks fall

I won’t lie I really loved playing through MP Advance’s story mode as a kid. All the scenarios and characters and music I found really charming. It’s one of my biggest guilty pleasures

I remember playing with my brother on Mario Party DS. Some of my best memories with him

I am so, SO SO glad Mario Party DS is my introduction to the series as a kid. I love this game to DEATH.

3:28 Snowman:SWING FOR THE FENCES! I DOUBT YOU CAN DO IT Yoshi:(does it) Snowman:(dies)

Dude. I maxed the Mario Party DS score TWICE as a kid.

Mario party DS is still my favorite in the entire series. A great variety of boards and mini games, extra bonus puzzle games that you can play entirely on their own, and you only need one cartridge to play with four people? One of the best values for your buck on the DS.

Hey, remember how the original Minigame Island was set up like a traditional Mario game overworld? With each world having its own theme for the minigames, a hint on what minigame you'd play next on the space you were on, and how there was a fork in the road, giving you some choice in how you wanted to tackle the adventure? Remember when developers used to do stuff like that, instead of making it literally a line of minigame spaces with no personality whatsoever?

Played a TON of Mario party DS as a kid... one of the few games I could routinely get my sister to play with me.... I will never forget managing to get a “world” record on that “game of chicken on a chalkboard” minigame that really should be impossible... someone I stopped at the right moment to make my distance read “00.00” and I was stupidly proud of that my entire childhood...

Mario Party DS was easily the best attempt of them all.

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I legit didn't even know Advance existed. It's sprites are really nice

I remember playing tons of Mario Party DS with you my brothers and sisters, had some really good times with that game. Camera shy, Hedge Honcho, Fast Food Frenzy, and Rotisserie Rampage are all favorites of mine

The 3DS Mario Party games remind me of Paper Mario. The newer games say "lol no" to the original formula, with mixed results. There's even that thing with the lastest entry on Switch, where they show that going back to how things were and building off that isn't quite what they're interested in. I loved Island Tour's stats for every board and how inaccurate they are. They're all 100% luck-based, from the footage I watched, back when it came out.

Antdude: "What could possibly go wrong?" Me: "Everything!"

I actually really like Mario Party DS. I used to play it with my sisters really late into the night during the summer, and now I play it on the bus for band when we go to far away places

I loved Mario Party DS, I felt so much nostalgia when you showed of gameplay, I remember having so much fun playing it myself and with my friends!

Another great video, I love how you've stayed consistent, yet kept on improving over the years! Long time watcher since the Sonikdude 101 days, keep it up :)

I might be the only person in the entire world that actually legitimately liked Mario Party Advance. A mission-based single-player board game doesn't sound so bad in concept, and while the execution leaves a bit to be desired, I do believe the concept itself may appeal enough to some. I really did like how you have a limited amount of rolls per playthrough, giving it a learning curve. You can undo your movement and get some movement points back, so you can plan and count ahead to either land in a Minigame space to hopefully make some mushrooms back, or on a Dice space to get an extra roll and really milk a single mushroom for all it's worth. If not for the fact that there's some quests that are locked behind specific characters, I would bet that it would be possible to beat the entire game in a single playthrough. Also some of the toys were kinda fun, especially those that supported some very simple multiplayer. At worst they're a "huh neat" distraction that… no, I take it back. At worst is literally a falling stick lol, basically a coin toss but even more lame. It's so bad that it's good lmfao

7:38 I remember getting Mario Party 7 and I always wondered why the microphone doesn't work. I tried every possible way and replaced it twice. Now I know this is common issue and not just me or the microphones I've got when this game came out.

Glad to see Mario Party DS getting some love in the video and comment section. It's a very underrated game.

0:19 funniest mario party minigame ever

It's clear a lot of time went into getting this footage. Great work AntDude

Mario Party DS is awesome. The boards are very cool, the games are nearly all just awesome and the best part is definitely that you only need one cartridge to play with friends. I cannot tell how much fun me and friends had during car or train rides or during rainy days.

I loved playing Mario Party DS on long car rides, team front seats versus team back seats. Great stuff!

I saw this and instantly remembered good ol’ Mario Party DS, very good memories

I remember playing Mario Party: Island when I was a kid.

The Mario party ds footage literally just made me remember I played the crap out of this game and completely forgot

Mario Party Advanced was my first Mario game.

I remember I beat Mario party advance like all the way through and I thought it was really grindy but kinda cool that only certain characters could do certain missions

MPDS was my first ds game and i played it so much i can't believe i never realized that most of the games do take into place how everyone's been shrunk down

Oh, you ended up covering all five handheld Mario Party games. Well, I was partly right... I more or less echo your thoughts, Ant. Personally, I'd swap DS with Star Rush as my favorite. In addition to helping me out with my dad's aneurysm, I find that its roster and mode selection is great for playing on the go. That said, boss fights get repetitive, even in my favorite mode Balloon Bash. DS, however, is very, very good. For ten years, it held the spot as my top Mario Party on the go...until Star Rush. It really does take the great parts about Mario Party and put it on a handheld device. In addition, the story is brilliant, especially in regards to its well-illustrated cutscenes and fun boss fights. It certainly took advantage of what the Nintendo DS could do... As for the others...I believe that Island Tour is all right. The boards are hit-or-miss, the minigames are good, and the story is quick fun. I think it's fine, but not much more than that. Top 100 and Advance are the ones I don't like very much. To its credit, Advance tried new ideas and has some interesting character dialogue, but it's honestly one of my least favorite Mario games due to its tedium. Top 100 sounded great on paper, but its execution fell flat. An imbalance of minigames, forgettable board play, and lackluster collectibles leave me quite underwhelmed at best. Definitely my least favorite 3DS game. Good video.

Mario party DS was the bomb!

Island tour was my first ever Mario party game so to me it was amazing. The Bowser tower thingy was so much fun and the choice of the voice was great since I've always been interested in voice acting.

I played so much Mario Party DS, especially the story mode and the playing with my friends. Good times man def my most nostalgic and one of my favorite Mario Party games

Out of the 3ds ones: Island Tour has best minigames Star Rush has the best boards Top 100 has... um... nostalgia?

The soap mini game in the mario ds party was the best when you have to surf in the sink.

Mario Party DS was so much fun, I remember I would play that with my sister all the time and just the dust buddies and railway race was so fun, such a fun concept on them being small

Crazy how they included one of the minigames from Mario Party 1 that landed Nintendo in a huge glove-related settlement in the top 100

“Hi There” “Hello” Comedy

I put soooo many hours into Mario party advance to beat it. That damn cheep cheep race was so hard. Even looking back, I genuinely enjoy the game, although it might be a little nostalgia based. Running out of dice was frustrating, but as a single player game, it did make it last longer. Although, that’s not necessarily a feature. The music was good, like you said, the sprite work was wonderful! It’s a shame more effort wasn’t put into the game play itself.

Mario Party DS was my first ever Mario Party aside from playing 8 at a friend’s house and the mediocre 10 and Super. Filled up my time on so many car trips.

Island tour had some amazing mini games in my opinion and there was one board I liked which was the bowser board because it was actually fun and unique

ND Cube is like the modern Sonic Team. In that they're shit at making games.

Finally someone else actually agrees that the Mario party DS is a good game

13:57 oh, so that's where that one yoshi sticker in superstars came from...

THANK YOU ANTDUDE. Usually people always cover or had the better version of.games so I couldn't share stories. But my main experience with Mario party was Mario party ds. Only multi-player game I ever played of party

I actually have a ton of nostalgia for Mario Party Advance. Had it when I was about 7 years old and I spent tons of time on the Gaddgets . I don't enjoy it as much nowadays as I did as a kid, but I still think it's a fun time.

I played only: DS, 8 And 9, Im regretting it