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Not sure how frowned upon this is, but it doesn't fall under Spam rules, so here we go:

Watching GBEast play Mario Party on their Extra Life segment yesterday reminded me of a project I still have kicking around on my hard drive. A cross between a mega-compilation of all ten Mario Party Parties and a trailer for the feature in general. The last time I did a video for MPP I had poor self-control and it wound up being an hour long; at that ratio, such a video for all of the videos combined would be about eight hours long, so I'd like your help to keep it at a more reasonable 30-ish minutes. Also because going through over 30 hours of footage would take…over 30 hours.

So at the risk of missing some of the more subtle highlights, I'd like suggestions on the best moments of certain types from the various parties. The highlights I'm looking for:

- Minigame highlights, including the selector wheel (Pair-a-Sailing)

- Anger and despair-inducing board game garbage

- "Fuck Dan Ryckert" (both Dan being a heel and receiving comeuppance)

- Anything that really exemplifies Mario Party as a Game Of Skill™

I've got a few of my personal favourites from the series, but I'm sure I'll miss some other greats if I try to do it alone, so I'd love to make a montage that the community feels brings out the """""""""""""Best""""""""""""" of Mario Party and Mario Party Party. Timestamps and what category your highlight falls under would be greatly appreciated, but if you can't remember when it is, I'll do my best to find it anyway. Thanks!

I appreciate the Department of New Business' Number One employee.

I fully support the addition of the head of the Department of New Business.

Dan had over 200 coins and lost it all from landing on the piranha plant twice, then a 50-coin battle game, then a bob-omb, then another bob-omb, then buying stars, then rolling a 1 and landing on the hammer bro(ther) that he had just thrown down, then Jeff stealing the last 10 coins away from him. And then Drew caused a Bowser Revolution, which left everyone with equal coins. Drew and Dan were on the same team for the last minigame and won.

If two players have equal stars, it's decided by coins.

If two players have equal stars and equal coins…

…

Both players hit a dice block each. Higher number wins.

It's a game of skill, you see.

I've got a couple of other projects I'm working on, but I do want to come back to it in a few days. I wasn't keen on putting clips out of order, but it'll probably make a few of the running gags land a bit better, so we'll see.

I didn't have it in me to be ruthless enough in editing for that. Some of the better moments later on I felt only made sense with the context of earlier moments as well. I might come back to it in a week or so and redo it.

Do you like watching the Giant Bomb crew play Mario Party but only have one hour to spare instead of the required four? Then have I got the video for you!

I unintentionally found myself compelled to make this after my download of the "high" quality video actually downloaded the 720p video for some reason. This is my first time making a highlights reel style video, so sorry if it's longer than expected. I did my best to cut it down, but there was so much good material in MPP5.

If you find it utterly necessary to power-game so hard and it's not fun for you, then stop playing the game.

Also the character does matter: Wolfman is utterly broken. As Wolfman, as soon as you get to one level 2 you win. Activate it, get two more gems banked, build mass without banking more gems, repeat until you're near the top, get Wolfman's level 4, and clearing one line anywhere will crush the entire stack down, even lines below it.

Assuming he doesn't try to act like he's above caring. I think it's between Dan and Drew, as long as Drew doesn't get drunk again. Brad is Brad at videogames, Jeff is apparently cursed with anti-luck, Dan actually understands how to play Mario Party to win, and Drew is a happy medium who has a mixture of the strengths and weaknesses of the other three, packaged in a mild-mannered Dexter lookalike and is just as deadly if given the opportunity.

Also Mario Party is eSports.

There's a big problem with Goomba's Greedy Gala that's not the roulette wheel: the Goomba dice spaces destroy movement potential and it quickly gets boring after 15 turns or so. By forcing you to play an event that either gives you 10 coins or sends you to Start, it makes the only actually correct option to run around the green loop, collecting money from the roulette wheel, items, and crushing people with the mega mushroom until either the star ends up in a fortuitous position for you or you can buy a lamp.

Plus there are only three battle game spaces, one which is on a path that no one is ever going to have a reason to go down, and two that are behind so many spaces that can send you to different spaces on the board that they'll never even get passed, let alone have the chance to be landed on. But all MP4 maps have this problem of too few battle spaces, because MP4 is one of the worst games in the series, so it's not really something that can be helped.

Also, considering Dan probably doesn't remember Mario Party 4 as well as he does the N64 ones: can we actually turn off mini-game explanations for this one? Just let everyone scramble to figure out what they're doing. It's not like it makes things any less fair, and it will cut out roughly 30 minutes of nothing happening but one person reading text on a screen because the other three people are too uninterested to read it themselves.

It's a casino; nothing is random. Just gotta have deep enough pockets.