these minigames aren’t much of a party
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counting down our picks for the top 10
worst Mario Party minigames before we
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the worst of the worst Mario Party
minigames from the boring to the
infuriating and everything in between
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number 10
quaint Aegis Mario Party 7 most of your
time in Mario Party is hitting dice
blocks earning are losing coins and
ending friendships it stops being named
Mario Party game when a minigame is
built to have no losers and such is the
case for quaint Aegis where everyone
just spends time hitting a dice block in
getting up to three coins with each jump
wow it’s really great to see you intend
on getting those creative juices flowing
seriously don’t we spend enough time
doing stuff like this hitting dice box
and getting coins come on number nine
move to the music Mario Party – it’s our
first one versus three minigame on the
list and spoilers it won’t be the last
one player assigns buttons to a series
of notes displayed at the bottom of the
screen the other three must memorize and
copy the buttons but the notes are
sporadically divided for something that
is at its core a Simon Says game this
does not give the solo player much of an
opportunity to try and win however all
four players won’t find themselves at
odds with each other but with the mini
game itself due to its pickiness on
timing did we mention those voice lines
are also incredibly obnoxious number
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what can you expect from the first Mario
Party on the Wii system other than all
together now motion controls this dual
tasks to players with tipping a board to
correctly sort green and pink orbs you
know something that really gets the
party going as the timer progresses so
does the speed of the orbs dropping wait
what in the hell look how fast they’re
going
yeah this really does not take normal
number seven day at the races Mario
Party – nobody likes losing – bad luck
it always feels like you’re getting
cheated out of a potential victory well
if you lose anyways day at the races
is precisely that though players take
turns choosing a character they think
might win the race yeah they take turns
which means that if you’re the unlucky
one who gets slim pickins chances are
you’re gonna lose anyway to make things
worse your character moves at random
intervals you and your friends might be
yelling at the TV for your picks to win
but in the end your consolation prize is
pure rage hope you weren’t screwed over
too much on your coins
number seven piranhas pursuit Mario
in this one versus three minigame the
solo player must escape a terrifying
piranha plant which is being spat out by
the other three players as they
ground-pound on a rain cloud because
that’s how it works
anyway this minigame is the very
definition of a fruitless endeavor the
solo player can easily keep matching the
a button while hitting every obstacle
and still win if that’s the case then
what the hell’s the point of even
participating although the bigger
question here is how did this broken ass
game make it into the Mario Party top
100 game number 5 flip the chimp Mario
Party 8 what better example of motion
control gimmicks then flip the friggin
chimp a zoo Kiki slowly climbs to the
top of a tree players must tilt their
Wiimote to the right or left to avoid
falling coconuts okay so what the hell
is this game is supposed to be most
minigames require some sort of skill or
strategy this is the equivalent of
watching paint dry you’re just sitting
there occasionally tilting your
controller it’s a mine number at best
and a total snoozefest it worse
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anyone else noticing a pattern with the
games here mario has had some decent
racing minigames across the series some
more fun than others
but there are none as intolerable as
runner madness which sees you careening
down a raging river of mud and rocks
okay actually that’s what we wish it was
this minigame is so boring that it
becomes a huge buzzkill for basically
anyone if we wanted to compete in one is
essentially a snail race we would have
been partying with the Rabbids number
three the beat goes on Mario Party three
the Mario Party series has been no
stranger to rhythm minigames every entry
has at least a few to add some variety
however this one is a total bust four
players take turns memorizing a shy
guy’s drum beats for up to sixteen notes
yeah as you can guess this one takes
like an eternity to finish it gets
quicker when it comes down to two
players but if both succeed until the
end the game ends in a draw so you
basically just wasted a solid five
minutes to win ten measly coins number
two crane game Mario Party and Mario
Party 2 there are some people who
believe that these crane machines at the
arcades are completely rigged allow
Mario Party to reinforce that belief
three players sit idle on the floor
while one player freely grabs one of
them and steals a lot of their coins
their only defense is to mash a button
to wiggle out of the solar players
clutches this game was really unfair due
to how unlikely it was for the selected
victim to escape when it was reworked in
the sequel the crane player had to grab
all three players in order to win but
had plenty of time to do so due to the
presence of extra timers so yeah it’s
rigged but the other way from the one at
the arcades
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before we unveil our top pick here are a
few dishonorable mentions
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number one tug-of-war paddle battle
it’s not often that you come across a
four-way tie on one of our lists but
trust us these minigames are more than
deserving of that dishonor this list has
featured minigames that are boring
frustrating or complicated but so far
none of them have caused legal or health
issues however these four minigames had
players rapidly rotating their analog
stick which gave players everywhere cuts
blisters and lacerations once the New
York State Attorney General’s Office
investigated Nintendo was forced to send
out 80 million dollars worth of
protective gloves on top of paying off
the costs of the investigation this is
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