So, umm, crap. I'm part of the Unofficial (Official) Giant Bomb Discord server and one night we made an offhand joke about playing Mario Party over the internet. We had a laugh that night. I'm not laughing now. Later today, at 6 pm Pacific time, three other Shifty bastards and I will be playing Mario Party 2 over netplay, while streaming it out.

https://www.twitch.tv/the_joystick_hero

Come watch us. Or don't. Honestly, that's the better option here.

Seriously, what am I doing with my life?

Edit: We're trying this again! Same Bat-twitch channel same bat-time! This time, we promise to have this working, since we tested it before hand! So come, hang out tonight, watch us lose our minds. It'll be great fun!

You shifty onion eating monster.

No. We are not starting the Third Onion War on the forums.

Mario Party 2 is a legitimately good game and you will all enjoy yourselves.

How many turns?

@zombiepie: I've heard it's the best one.

You know it's fifty. There was no escaping it.

Yikes. Good luck.

Nice knowing ya

You better play on the ice level (is there an ice level in 2?) I heard from the internet that all ice levels are the best levels in mario party.

Don't do this to yourself.

It's like when some people played Russian Roulette after watching Deer Hunter.
Mario Party is the Russian Roulette of Giant Bomb, another life thrown away! THROWN AWAY!

@zombiepie: I don't need your sympathy. I know what I'm trying to do here. I'M FILLED WITH REGRET HERE!

I am one of the many people who legitimately feels that way.

From my (admittedly very brief) experience with it, Mario Party 2 feels more like a game than the other ones I've had the privilege of witnessing.

I'll do my best to not struggle too much with some of the minigames. Like, those instructions sometimes legitimately make absolutely no sense.

Thanks to those of you that showed up. I AM SO SORRY!

We'll get it going. I'm not letting @Novis off that easy. Check back later in the week.

God, I am scouring the internet for help on the desync issue and am finding jack shit. I could use my computer as a kaillera server but that wont do the trick I think. GGPO doesnt seem to support more than 1v1 either. WHY HASN'T ANYONE TRIED TO PLAY MARIO PARTY OVER THE INTERNET

NOBODY WINS :D

Made an edit to the post. We're trying again! We can't let this dumb, stupid, worst joke go! And I hate myself. A lot. It's the only explanation... yay!

@novis: Why on god's green earth... @joystick_hero This is the real life version of that murder dungeon you ran us through in the D&D game. I get it now. You just like watching people suffer!

He is a cruel and angry god!

@weapongod30: Hey now, I'm giving back to the community. Totally different.

@joystick_hero: Right.... So *that's* how you sleep at night you monster!

@weapongod30: It's true. But at least this time, I'm also going through the "death dungeon". So maybe it's more like karma?

And we're starting! I hope you all have better things to do with your time!

And for anyone that showed up, thanks for watching! Sorry for the trainwreck! We're not doing N64 ever again! Woo!

If anyone wants to watch the part of the stream that did work, here you go: HIGHLIGHT

Spoiler: about 20 turns of laggy nonsense, that gets better about half way through, and then blows up. It was a good time.