Family & Friends Party is a video game developed by Gammick Entertainment for WiiWare

WiiWare

WiiWare is a service that allows Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo. These games and applications can only be purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel under the WiiWare section...

. It was released in North America on March 2, 2009 and in the PAL regions on April 10, 2009.

Overview

Family & Friends Party is a minigame compilation for multiple players, with individuals or teams competing to complete all six games within a certain number of turns. The six minigames include variations and clones of hangman

Hangman (game)

Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.-Overview:...

, charades

Charades

Charades or charade is a word guessing game. In the form most played today, it is an acting game in which one player acts out a word or phrase, often by pantomiming similar-sounding words, and the other players guess the word or phrase. The idea is to use physical rather than verbal language to...

, Simon

Simon (game)

Simon is an electronic game of memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, with the software programming being done by Lenny Cope and manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley. Simon was launched in 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City and became an immediate success. It...

 and Pictionary

Pictionary

Pictionary is a guessing word game designed by Robert Angel and first published in 1985 by Seattle Games Inc. The game is played with teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates' drawings.-Objective:...

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Reception

IGN gave it 5.9/10, believing that players will only get the most enjoyment out of it with many players gathered together. WiiWare World echoed these sentiments and also felt that while it featured decent production values, it suffered from unbalanced gameplay and a steep asking price. They gave it 5/10.