I got Mario Party when I was in college. Luckily it came out when my roommate and his girlfriend were still around, so we got to play it a lot together. A video board game was certainly new at the time, and this was before Mario spinoff games were really big either.
I think it's interesting that most Mario Party games were made by Hudson Soft. I think it's because they had a lot of multiplayer experience with games like Bomberman, and also they made a popular video board game series in Japan that I just talked about briefly in my newest blog! I think before Konami destroyed Hudson, Nintendo hired out most of their employees, so that's good.
I didn't get too many of the Mario Party games after that because they're all prety much the same. Only other ones I got were one on the GameCube because it was being sold at a charity auction for cheap. And I got one of the Wii U ones because it came with an amiibo and you know how I like my amiibo figures! But that's it. I don't even have the one on the Switch.