EveryBody Plays: There's often something magical that happens when Nintendo characters meet board games. One of our favourite multiplayer staples in recent years, the Mario Party series is a great example of how things usually work, showing how an otherwise fairly average board game can be injected with a new lease of life thanks to the portly plumber's golden touch - as the somewhat disappointing, and Mario-free Wii Party so adequately demonstrated. Boom Street, then, is probably best described as Mario meets Monopoly - a game where the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom decide to stop jumping on each other's heads, or stealing princesses, in the intent of pursuing that most noble of goals - that of being stinky rich.

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