GAMER LOUNGE 20XX (NO CASUALS!!)

[Monobrobe]

I just finished the best session of Mario Party 4 ever with my parents.

I won. But it was actually pretty close between me and my mom.
We were playing on Toad's Midway Madness. I had the bad luck to get stuck in the loop at the beginning after getting one star. My mom got two stars in a row, can you believe that? She got one star, and then the next star ended up being like five spaces away from her. She got that one too.
The real hilarity was in the minigames, though. Our last minigame was Dungeon Duo, my personal favorite. If I was with the computer, I would've had it in the bag. But I was with my dad. It was the funniest thing though. We were going over the controls. My parents were okay with the first page. Then I pressed R and revealed a second page of controls, and they both groaned in unison.
Let me tell you, it was incredibly frustrating watching both my parents struggle. It was especially frustrating watching my dad keep pressing the wrong button. You wanna know how long it took us to finish the minigame? Almost 4 minutes. My parents both had a hard time getting on the rotating platforms. And mine was standing completely still for Dad, and he kept missing! It's amazing how hard it was for them to grasp the concept of jumping while pushing the control stick forward.
It got really intense towards the end. I finally got Dad over to the other side and we were at the pipes. I had to lead dad to the right pipe since he didn't pay attention to which one I was in. That was fine enough. Then came the balloon part.
Oh. My. Gosh. You will not believe what happened.
We were well ahead of Mom and the computer. They were still at the rotating platforms. I kept alternating the L and R buttons to inflate the balloon. My dad? He was practically pressing them at the same time. I tried correcting him, telling him to press them one at a time. He claimed he was, but it still looked like he was pressing them at the same time. So I just kept doing what I was doing and Dad was doing what he was doing. My mom and the computer finally made it to the balloon and they started pumping it up.
Their balloon filled up much faster than ours.
Yes.
They beat us.
I threw my dad such a fierce glare and my mom was just laughing her head off at the whole thing.
Well, it didn't really matter anyways, because Mom was still in first place.

But yeah, I ended up winning because I got the Minigame Star and the Coin Star. My mom got the Happening Star, so it came down to who had the most coins.

It was really, really a ton of fun, despite the frustrations. I think my parents had a great time too.