Mario Party 5

Earlier in the week, we published an article showing some 50 versions of Sonic the Hedgehog to see which one is the 'best' to play as. But you can't do one without the other, so here are nearly 70 versions of Mario for your eyes to boggle at.

Thanks to its staggered - some may say relentless - release dates, every year since 1998 has been a Mario Party year somewhere in the world. Some years have even been multi-Party years, and while few of the many hundreds of minigames that comprise Nintendos critically maligned - yet hugely successful - series have been particularly memorable, the age of the Mario Party has rarely been dull. Minigame Island The very first N64 version included the Minigame Island mode, which was a compilation