I think that I’m the only person in the Western Hemisphere that bought an e-Reader. It was a device that allowed you to scan dot codes on cards for various effects. Most of the time it involved stupid little gamelets or unlocking things in other games. But Mario Party-e was a little different.
It’s kind of hard to explain the game, but it’s essentially just a card game. You have to collect parts of Mario’s costume, get a star, and win. But! To get the pieces of the costume you have to scan cards and play a silly little game.
In short, it’s kind of a cool fusion of old-fashioned card-playing technology and new-fashioned video-gaming technology. But I only could convince people to play it with me one time… and I lost.