Mario Party 5 was released for the Nintendo GameCube in November 2003. This time, you can play in “Story Mode” and this allows to you play with Mario, Luigi, Boo, Toad, Koopa Kid and the rest of his friends are in Dream Depot on a mission to stop the Koopa Kids so they can stop Bowser from stealing everyone’s dreams. This was the first Mario Party game where Donkey Kong was not a character that you could play as. Nintendo instead made the DK Space on the board. I’m not sure why Donkey Kong was not included in this game. There is also a “Party Mode” where you can play the board game with your friends and you can also play in “Mini Game Mode” which obviously allows you to play various mini-games in Mario Party 5. You will get a better idea of all the cool, new features in Mario Party 5 by watching the Mario Party 5 commercial.