Editing Party game (section)

==Video games==
{{Main|Party video game}}
Party video games are commonly designed as a collection of simple [[minigames]], designed to be intuitive and easy to control, and allow for competition between many players. Some games are played on simulated game boards, like the ''[[Itadaki Street]]'' series, ''[[Mario Party]]'' series and ''[[Sonic Shuffle]]''.

''[[BYTE]]'' in 1981 called the [[Olympic video games|Olympic]] [[Sports video game|sports]] game ''[[Olympic Decathlon]]'' (1980) "the first true party game for [[microcomputer]]s".<ref name="williams198112">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE_06-12_Computer_Games#page/n7/mode/2up | title=New Games New Directions | work=BYTE | date=December 1981 | access-date=19 October 2016 | author=Williams, Gregg | pages=6–10}}</ref> Another early example is [[Starpath]]'s ''[[Party Mix (video game)|Party Mix]]''. 

Modern examples include ''[[Tower Unite]]'' (2016), a virtual community party game played online, and ''[[The Jackbox Party Pack]]'' series which offers minigames that can be played both online and with people in the same room. <!--Gremlin's "Compendium" is an early 1980s example of the board party games, but has no article-->