For the series' first outing, Mario Party tried a lot of ideas and realized that many of them were no good. Anyone familiar with later titles will find many of the decisions here baffling, which in some ways makes this game feel incredibly unique.
The two biggest problems this game has for me is it's boring yet frustratingly designed board layouts, and the amount of unbalanced minigames it has. You may have fun with this game (except on the joystick rotating mini-games, you will never have fun with those) looking at it historically to see where this series began, but don't try to get too competitive with it because this game probably has the least strategic elements of any pre-Mario Party 9 game.
The two biggest problems this game has for me is it's boring yet frustratingly designed board layouts, and the amount of unbalanced minigames it has. You may have fun with this game (except on the joystick rotating mini-games, you will never have fun with those) looking at it historically to see where this series began, but don't try to get too competitive with it because this game probably has the least strategic elements of any pre-Mario Party 9 game.