Party Game

A genre of game that took off with the release of Mario Party on the Nintendo 64. A party game is a minigame collection where two to four players compete against each other in a boardgame-like environment.

The term is also used more loosely to describe games that are really fun to have at a party. This label doesn't have a strict definition, but multiplayer (obviously) and "playability" are two important criteria. Things like Rock Band and Mario Kart fall under this category.

Either way, these are far more common on consoles than on PCs because during the SDTV era, few PCs were equipped to use four controllers and a large monitor.


 * Cartoon Network Block Party
 * Crash Bash
 * Crash Boom Bang!
 * Disney's Party
 * Dokapon Kingdom
 * Donkey Konga
 * Guilty Party
 * Incredible Crisis (Very loosely, though.)
 * Itadaki Street
 * Mario Party
 * Nickelodeon Party Blast
 * Pac-Man Fever and Pac Man Party
 * Rayman Raving Rabbids 1, 2 and TV Party
 * Shrek: Super Party
 * Sonic Shuffle
 * Viva Pinata: Party Animals
 * Wario Ware (in particular, Mega Party Game$, but other installments have included elements of this)
 * Wii Party
 * You Don't Know Jack