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[Moon Presence]

Triple Triad.

Basically.

Edit: The "math game" in FFX-2, I loved that one as well.

 

[risnuff]

"Darts: 100 yen. I'll play it once."

That music tho.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2 minigames. I've probably played those more than the main games.

 

[Andyliini]

Fishing in Ocarina of Time.
Also Triple Triad.

 

[Crixus]

Not sure if they fall into this category, but WoW's battlegrounds. There have been many months when I subscribed just to play a few Alterac battles every night, and nothing else.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Catherine

The Witcher 3

 

[hairygreenpeas]

I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing darts and going bowling in Yakuza 0. So much so that at least 85% of a typical 4 hour play time of the game for me would be spent at the bowling alley or challenging NPCs in darts lol. It's addicting!

In FFX, I played a whole lot of Blitzball once I got the hang of it (aka, once I realized it was all just simple math!)

 

[ActWan]

I chased Gwent matches like a madman.

 

[holygeesus]

Animal Crossing and the NES games was good. Allowed a break from gardening at least.

 

[SoundPulse]

I played a frankly stupid amount of slots in gen 1 Pokemon.

voltorb flip is alright but it's no slots

 

[vulva]

WTF at these posts not saying geometry wars

 

[Iamcorrupt]

Okami fishing, plus all those dumb 5 second games in the loading screens to get more demon fangs?

 

[texhnolyze]

FFVIII Triple Triad

FFIX Tetra Master

The Witcher 3 Gwent

FFXV fishing.

 

[Fewr]

Monkey Billiards 2 from Super Monkey Ball 2. I'd say 99% of the time I fire that game up, it was to play pool.

Just listen to this music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l14iNKitF0Y

I forgot about this. It was amazing.

 

[Nanashrew]

But especially the Scyther and Pinsir cutting logs one

Hitmontop mini game was a lot of fun for me and my brother. Very hard mode the AI could finally keep up.

 

[Ultimadrago]

I can't believe I forgot about Yakuza 0's Cabaret game! The latest culprit

 

[killatopak]

I wish some of these mini games turn into full fledged games like gwent did. Even releasing on mobile would be preferred.

 

[Mustang 00]

Boxing in Ape Escape
Fishing in Breath of Fire 4
Slot Machine in Legend of Legaia

 

[Rentahamster]

Triple Triad. Blitzball.

 

[AlexFlame116]

Does Chao Garden count?

 

[Msyjsm]

I had more fun with Anaconda than I did TimeSplitters 2 itself.

I dunno if I'd go that far, as I beat the fuck out of that game (all platinum medals in the challenges and beat the game on whatever the hardest difficulty was (it was really fucking hard)), but I also beat all the high scores in the three minigames, so clearly I enjoyed them quite a bit as well. Anaconda was definitely the best, probably my favorite snakelike ever, but Astro Lander was a close second, and a really good Lunar Lander clone. Plus, dat music. (The third minigame was a pretty shitty topdown racer, unfortunately.)

 

[TerryLee81]

Yeah, Gwent.

Random NPC: "My wife is missing and my son is a werewolf, please help me"

Geralt: "Shut up and get you cards out"

 

[IncognitoPanda]

Tetra Master from FF IX

YES!

 

[Meowster]

I would replay Final Fantasy VIII just so I could play Triple Triad.

 

[Lijik]

i got pretty into that beatemup minigame they had in Tekken 4 as a kid for a little bit, I think it was mostly for the super dry and serious CHICKEN voice clip which was hilarious

 

[Daeoc]

Triple Triad, I'd always go for Lionheart on Disc 1 and get energy crystals through Card Mod, but now after doing this so many times, I decided to just start from a save instead of completely over. So now whenever I replay FFVIII, I start with five hours of playtime, first five card pages(minus PuPu, can't get it until much later), Ifrit, Minimog, and Quistis cards along with two energy crystals(20 Elnoyles) to get Lionheart in Deling City, all before leaving for Dollet, so around 20-30m into the game were you not to go Triple Triad crazy.

 

[Myriadis]

Millenium Puzzle in Wild Arms 3. You can find about 20 of them on the world map and as soon as I found one I stopped the story right there and tried to solve it.

 

[syncyes]

The taxi shit in Yakuza 5 was my JAM. Loved having to turn on my turn signals and stop at stop signs and talk to passengers while driving, lmao.

 

[ScientificPizza]

Blitzball 4 life

 

[Psyrgery ES]

Kung Foot in Raymand legends.

My friends go nuts over this minigame, it's tons of fun

 

[purdobol]

Played single player just to unlock mini games. Monkey Target was the best one of the bunch by far.

 

[pislit]

Triple Triad is the real game and FFVIII is the mini-game.

Chocobo Hot N' Cold in FFIX is also amusing.

 

[Ri'Orius]

Chocobo Hot & Cold.

Skinner box with juuuust a touch of skill? Yeah, that's how you get someone hooked. And there was some good loot available from the chronographs.

 

[Smasher89]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DwQ0Go_xng

Since there was a swedish national Nintendo competition, and yoshi's touch and go was a game during qualifiers, I put all my efforts into that for weeks, never having played a game that much before or after.

Score attack (with 5min self imposed timer, since that could easily be maxed otherwise),

Got I think the second best record during practice in Sweden. 758 was the score if i recall, there is soo much room for optimizing in that little minigame it's insane(but a external timer is neccesary)!

Other then that, i remember the cannon minigame in sm64 ds was alot of fun.

 

[spawnsniper]

Fusion frenzy - Sumo.

4 players was awesome!

 

[tanuki]

Played single player just to unlock mini games. Monkey Target was the best one of the bunch by far.

This so much. 4 player simultaneous Monkey Target 2 was great too.

 

[Macapala]

Jetpac was better than DK64.

lol! That's harsh.

 

[MTC100]

Fishing in Ocarina of Time and Gwent in the Witcher 3.

 

[ChrisD]

The Mario 64 DS mini games.
They were addicting.

Edit: if you don't mean separate mode. I guess the card game in Digimon World 3

Nothing's coming off the top of my head right now, but holy, if Mario 64 DS counts then that most definitely. Had to have spent 40+ hours in that thing.


Stealth edit: Ah yeah, Monkey Ball as well, for sure! Monkey Target needs to come back as a downloadable.

 

[Decider]

The monster arena in Dragon Quest IV was incredibly addictive and killed all of my progress. I ended up not even remembering what I was supposed to be doing beforehand, so I abandoned the game.

 

[StrategyFan]

trying to find ciri

Spoiler

gwent was the main game

 

[Phreakuency]

Mario 64 DS vote here as well. This one in particular, so addictive!

 

[Rei no Otaku]

FFX-2 Had this game called Sphere Break. For some reason I got really into it and destroyed the tournament in the game.

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

I think Tetra Master...or was it Triple Triad. Maybe both.

 

[sp3ctr3]

WTF at these posts not saying geometry wars

^this

 

[Breakaway]

Bowling game in Tekken DR.

 

[TI82]

This ENTIRE GAME

 

[Mung]

The mini games in Timesplitters were awesome.

 

[de_reddy]

The Lost Viking in Starcraft 2.

 

[stilgar]

*post screen of an obscure minigame without any name*

THIS