I was recently teaching a new friend to play the game and realized that I was being kind of harsh. Why must I always try to be the center of attention?

Since it all began with Peach, it should end with Peach, right?

Recently, I have dusted of the ol' N64 and been playing around with the older Mario party games.

First off, let me say that I am always the "Party Star." I don“t like to lose at that game, not ever. Never. I always choose to play 35 or 50 turn games, in order to stretch out my glory.

My goal may not be to collect the most stars in the game but to get every possible other star prize. But after a while, I noticed that people never wanted to play with me, or when they did they were hell-bent on beating me no matter the cost.

And "Mario Party" games are, after all, a party game. It is quite often pulled out when I have company over. Most people have played the game, and everyone loves it.

I always have fun playing it, even when I do lose. (It does occasionally happen. Maybe some beings from another plane of existence messed with the electronics within the game.)

I am an attention whore. I know it, and I am fine with being one, but only recently did I discover the results of my actions.

I was recently teaching a new friend to play the game and realized that I was being kind of harsh. Why must I always try to be the center of attention?

I would always laugh when people make simple mistakes. Case in point; the person I was playing with mixed up which box she was while playing the Face Lift mini-game. She thought she was doing so well until after the game she realized that she was looking at my area.

I began to laugh uncontrollably at this. I don't know why, she has had far less experience playing "Mario Party" and video games in general then I have.

It was a little goof-up and could have happened to anyone. We both laughed at first but I just kept on laughing. Then I would bring it up throughout the game, constantly pointing out which player she was and what she was doing.

After a while she, of course, began to get annoyed with me, a natural progression of playing the game with me. Then after a while she stopped having fun. Once she stopped having fun, I also stopped having fun, 'cause playing "the Party" requires total satisfaction of all players. Otherwise the game just drags on.

So what was my choice but to start to lose? I need to make it fun for her, because letting me be number one wasn't what was best for the relationship. I could still maintain dominance in some mini-games but through others, I learned to play nice.

Sometime you have to lose to win, every once in a while you have to let Peach win. It's part of the game, and it's part of life.

For all you that were wondering, no she did not select to play as Peach, she was Yoshi. Plus I don't even play as Mario. I always play as Luigi, because I enjoy saying, "Luigi's number one."

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