Its hard to believe that Mario Party 2 came out 25 years ago on the Nintendo 64. There are many people who would go on record and argue that Mario Part 2 was one of the few games that helped the party genre of gaming become more popular during the 2000’s going into early 10’s decade. Mario Party 2 was considered to be one of the most popular installments within its series and managed to reach at least 2.4 million copies in sales for the Nintendo 64 console. Mario Party 2 was a title that came out during a time period where the landscape of gaming was changing and the party genre was still considered to be new. Mario Party 2 gave players a variety of gameplay options including Lite, Standard and Full Play and featured popular characters like Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario and Yoshi. Mario Party 2 had six different world maps and included four player co-op gameplay something you did see on any other game consoles besides N64 during the time.

Mario Party 2 was arguably one of the greatest spin-offs to the main Mario series had ever produced because it was something that appealed to casuals during a time period where the landscape of gaming was evolving. Party games were not too common during the 90’s decade so in some ways Mario Party 2 was ahead of its time. Also, Sega could not produce anything that could rival Nintendo’s Mario Party series in terms of popularity. The Sonic Shuffle game that Sega produced in 2000 ended up being a commercial failure mainly because it could not rival Mario Party 3 in terms of popularity which was also released for the N64 that same year. Even though, the Mario Party series is still going on to this day many would argue that Mario Party 2 was one of the better installments within its own series because of the world maps. The Mario Party series throughout most of the 2000’s has been somewhat underwhelming and it mainly shined during the N64 era of gaming due to the rising popularity of consoles like PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Mario Party 2 seen as one of the greatest party games of its era 25 years later and its a title that could have been easily overshadowed if it came out during the second half of the 2000’s or even the 2010’s decade.