Birthday Party!

After having a birthday party with a bunch of my friends I realized how much I wanted to have access to more quality party games. There are many fun mulitplayer games but games that are designed for a bunch of friends that have low learning curves are quite wonderful gems.

These gems are not the easiest to find. There may be quite a bit of cheap party games but I'm looking for content that is worth getting and replaying over and over.

Nidhogg

• Two player 
• 2D combat game
• Quick matches 
• Good tournament system.
• Lots of modes

Super Smash Brothers series

• Up to 4 players
• Fighting game
• Match time varies
• Lots of characters
• Lots of stages
• Custom stages
• Lots of items

Mariokart series (I prefer CTR but I don't believe it has multitab capability [which isn't a common accessory for most people]

• Up to 4 players
• Racing game
• Matches usually no longer than 5 minutes
• One can change the player per race
• Change in character and vehicles is mostly aesthetic, minor changes in gameplay

Worms series
Depending on which version one gets the features vary but most of them are all great. I personally own World Party and highly recommend it.

• Up to 16 players hotseat
• Turn based combat game
• Lots of weapons/ item variety
• Lots of modes
• Custom stages

Chu-Chu Rocket

• Up to 4 players
• Puzzle game, but it can get really fast paced and hectic
• A crazy amount of levels
• Custom levels
• Some extra modes

Wii Sports

Not actually a bad series of games. I'm quite a fan of the bowling game since it games the none skilled bowlers feel amazingly talented. 

Super Monkey Ball

• Tons of levels to try
• Time challenges 

Little Big Planet

• endless amount of levels
• up to 4 players
• offline and online 

Zen Pinball

• The best pinball game I know of w a bunch of neat machines
• Play up to 4 people as well I believe
• There is a hot seat option
• You can play for highest score (last time I did this I broke my high score)

Burnout Paradise 

• The most satisfying race you'll ever have
• destroy your friends
• get destroyed
• and in the end, just keep racing and breaking your car.

The Yawhg

• Up to 4 players
• If you like DnD it's like that but w/ out the combat
• Very personally story driven (all about your choices).
• Replayability
• 15-20 minute matches max  

Things I need to look at

Samurai Gunn

Tower Fall