{"id":129009,"date":"2022-10-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-139338"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:00:00","slug":"poll-whats-the-best-mario-party-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/18\/poll-whats-the-best-mario-party-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: What&#8217;s The Best Mario Party Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e59f0384c0ae8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e59f0384c0ae8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mario Party Superstar\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e59f0384c0ae8\/mario-party-superstar.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e59f0384c0ae8\/mario-party-superstar.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Party Superstar\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ahh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/mario_party\">Mario Party<\/a>.<\/em> The destroyer of friendships. The ice-breaker. The game you get out every holiday season, lose at, only to hide it away for another 365 days but hold a grudge for a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Mario Party<\/strong> series has been going since 1998 on the Nintendo 64, causing family squabbles and fabled rivalries ever since. And, with the sobering news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/mario_party_4\">Mario Party 4<\/a> \u2014 the series&#8217; first GameCube entry \u2014 is <em>20 years old<\/em> on 21st October 2022, we thought there&#8217;s no better way of celebrating than a community game of Bumper Balls! Or, wait, sorry&#8230; a community poll!<\/p>\n<p>With <em>17 Mario Party<\/em> games in total, everyone&#8217;s got to have their own favourite entry, whether they started right at the beginning, or have only just started with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_party_superstars\">Mario Party Superstars<\/a> and are waiting wistfully for some DLC (us too!). It&#8217;s going to be as fierce as a 15-turn game, we think \u2014 but without all of those family feuds.<\/p>\n<p>Just like previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/feature_the_best_final_fantasy_games_of_all_time\">reader-ranked polls<\/a>, we&#8217;re asking you, the lovely readers, to rate every single Mario Party game you&#8217;ve played from the list below.<\/p>\n<p>Registered Nintendo Life users can click on the stars below and rate the games out of 10. The resulting ranking (which we&#8217;ll publish in due course) is created from those fluid NL User Ratings and is therefore subject to change, <em>even after publication<\/em>. If you&#8217;ve previously rated these games in our database, thank you! If not, you can add your score to the game at any time, present or future, and it will still count and potentially influence the order.<\/p>\n<p>Well, with that out of the way, it&#8217;s time to get the dice rolling:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note:<\/em><\/strong> <em>We&#8217;re not including the Japan-only arcade games or the GBA e-Reader game <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariowiki.com\/Mario_Party-e\">Mario Party-e<\/a> \u2014 just those easy-to-find and play games that you can sit back and relax with at home!<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Rate each Mario Party you&#8217;ve played:<\/h2>\n<p>Click the stars below to rate each Mario Party you&#8217;ve played out of 10:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"widget-game-ratings\" data-search=\"series:&quot;Mario Party&quot;\">\n<nav class=\"pages\"><\/nav>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Thanks for rating your favourites and give us a shout if you think anything is missing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;ll be revealing the results very soon, but remember: much like our platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/top-50\">Top 50s<\/a>, the list will be fluid, so even if you miss out on voting before the results are revealed, you can still influence the ranking after publication.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Ahh, Mario Party. The destroyer of friendships. The ice-breaker. The game you get out every holiday season, lose at, only to hide it away for another 365 days but hold a grudge for a lifetime. The Mario Party series has been going since 1998 on the Nintendo 64, causing family squabbles and fabled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}