My first go ever with a Mario Party game

Recently I got a Mario Party 1 cartridge for free and this evening I thought I'd try it out just to see what this series was like. The board game mode was interesting for a while but it was very long, even though I selected the quicker play option with just 20 turns. Afterwards I just tried a bit of the mini game island mode which is a Super Mario Bros 3 styled overworld map with mini-games as the levels. I found that to be a bit more fun but I'll have to play it more to make a fair judgement about it. Not to mention the mini games themselves! I have to play a few more of them.