Can't find APPROPRIATE games for your little guy or gal?  Our 5 year old loves this game, it offers a wide array of characters to choose from, you know that is the most important thing to a 5 year old to be DONKEY KONG.   After playing the board game a couple of times you will have opened a number of MINI-GAMES that can be accessed separately, and played individually, OVER and OVER again.  He navigates the screens through trial and error as he doesn't know how to read, and enjoys this game when playing alone, freeing me up to get some work done.  However, don't think that it is only for kids, Mario Party 4 is enjoyable for adults to, it is a game of chance, rolling the dice in the board game, and a challenge, in playing the Mini-Games.  Fun for the whole family, with the much loved Mario Characters.  This being number 4, keeps the price a little lower too, as the newer ones have different "better" graphics but higher prices.  We had purchased Mario Party 6, only to find out it was the wrong one, it has a DK space, but you can't be DK, and that was very important, so we had to trade it in for 4.  Hope this helps other moms and dads, looking for a well rounded game with a lot of variety.