Mario Party 2

Each turn in Mario Party 2 is followed by a minigame, which is competed to earn coins for the character, used to buy items and stars.Stars must be purchased from Toad with coins, which can be earned through a selection from one of 65 mini-games that is played once at the end of each turn.[10] Items can be purchased from shops on the board or won from special single-player mini-games initiated by landing on green spaces marked with a treasure chest.When this occurs, Bowser will hit three dice blocks and move the total number of spaces shown.Players that have landed on a green space will be randomly assigned to "blue" or "red" status before the mini-game is selected.[8] During the final five turns of a game, a one-on-one Duel mini-game is initiated when a player lands on the same space as another.If two or more characters have acquired the same amount of coins and Stars, the winner will be determined with a roll of the dice block.Coins can be used to purchase mini-games from the tree Woody, which can then be played at any time outside of normal board games.In the Mini-Game Stadium, four players compete on a special board map consisting only of blue and red spaces.The winner of Mini-Game Stadium is determined by whoever accumulates the highest number of coins by the completion of the allotted turns.[23][24] Shortly before its U.S. release, Nintendo donated copies of the game to the Latin American Youth Center.[25] In Japan, Mario Party 2 was re-released in November 2010, as a downloadable Virtual Console game for the Wii.[26][27][28] In North America, Mario Party 2 was re-released as a Virtual Console game for the Wii U on December 22, 2016.[37][41] Scott Alan Marriott of AllGame wrote that Mario Party 2 "does what a sequel is supposed to do: address the original's shortcomings while offering enough enhancements to make even the jaded among us take a second look.""[38] Peyton Gaudiosi of Gamecenter wrote that playing alone "is as subpar as that in the first game thanks to its repetitive turn-based nature."[39] Matt Casamassina of IGN said that while the game had more content, and it "sticks with the same winning formula... there really isn't enough new here to warrant another purchase".