It was the 7th, at my cousins house in Nebraska. I remember us playing and having tons of fun for hours, everyday asking my parents if we could "go visit rameen just one more time"
Thats how I got into video games. When we got back from the vacation I asked my parents if I could also have a gamecube. They knew wii was coming soon, so they recommended I get a DS instead. The first type of DS had just recently came out (that's how I would know what year I first played Mario party, I just don't know what year it was!) so then wii and MP8 came out and blah blah. A few months after that my cousin sent me a package with MP7 and super Mario sunshine (btw, I'm still stuck on that game, and gave up in 2009) over the summer I bought a used MP6 from gamestop, just to help "tide me over" until MP9 came out, I guess.