After much deliberation, I have decided that this video is fake and bad because I didn't include Chao Garden. I'm sorry to all the people I let down.

@EnkaiTV

11 ай бұрын

you clearly didn't play Secrets of grindea.. cuz their afterthought is an arcade mode which is A ROGUELIKE ! (my fave)

@RealLolazors

11 ай бұрын

My favorite side game mode that I can think of on the fly is Tekken 5's Devil Within, its really janky and infuriating but god damn if it isnt fun to just run around as Jin and beat the shit out of people and robots, and how they allowed you to play previous tekken games as well, I miss that era of games

@Humanentity3888

11 ай бұрын

We have new challengerrr, 400k subscribers 🎉🎉🎉

@DarthTaco1232454

10 ай бұрын

I was LITERALLY about to say Chao Garden from sonic adventure battle 2 before i saw this post

@angel_of_rust

8 ай бұрын

chao garden is so great there's a apparently an entire franchise of the game it's a part of

LETS FUCKING GO THE RETURN OF THE KING! You were missed Skooch

@RukiK9

11 ай бұрын

Hell to the yeah!

@Skooch

11 ай бұрын

*respawn noises*

@djdsakas4985

11 ай бұрын

@@Skooch Been watching your content for years! Much love and support man, love all the new content you have been putting out!

@Nixahma

11 ай бұрын

​@@Skooch*cat pop noise*

Ever since blizzard... Nobody wants massages from game devs

@crayonicles

11 ай бұрын

I mean Terraria still does it

@dubiousinformation1756

11 ай бұрын

@@crayonicles Terraria does what? Did I miss something? I think the original comment was referring to Blizzards 'cosby room', so I really hope terraria isn't doing that.

@AdamDj-ic3kr

21 күн бұрын

​@@dubiousinformation1756i think they misread massage as message

One of my favorite "afterthought" campaigns has got to be the Mr Satan campaign mode of dragon ball z Budokai 1. Very fun and did NOT need to be there at all.

@skylarthomas3033

11 ай бұрын

The Art of Combat 1. Give it your all and take them down quickly! 2. Make your final attack a Big One! 3. Don’t give them a chance to fight back! 4. Keep calm even if you’re cornered! 5. Keep your chin up even if you loose. Train hard and try again!

The “Hall of Meat” game mode in the Skate series is an absolute stand out for me. Always enjoyed playing this one

The Chao Garden in Sonic Adventure 2 is pretty cool, it's like a bit like a pokemon game where you manipulate the genetics and growth of cute creatures to make them as strong as possible to beat other cute creatures in races or boxing etc

Skooch, you’re like the old jontron for me now. And just so you know, that’s like one of the highest honors I can give. Your content takes a while to come out, but is so quality I don’t mind waiting. :) :) :)

Galactic conquest from the original Battlefront 2 has got to be my favorie afterthough campain modes. Adding in grand strategy aspects made the game so fun

bomberman 64 has got to be one of the best ones the stages gradually deteriorating as people try and move around throwing bombs from different heights always made me laugh

You know what memories this video brought back? Those OLD minigames that came with older animated movies, one I distinctly remember was in Brother Bear 2 which had a pachinko machine which would decide a topic for a gameshow quiz. That memory still lives rent free in my head of me replaying that as a kid

@DeityLink911

11 ай бұрын

Dude some of those mini games were fucking underrated. I remember distinctly many of them like Spy kids 3d and their racing game or even Treasyre planet and their tour/scavenger hunt that unlocked bonus behind the scenes content

@techster1852

11 ай бұрын

Reminds me how at the end of a shrek movie there was a song playing which caused me to dance so hard in front of the tv that the entire tv fell on me and this was early 2000s were tvs were extremely large and heavy So every time “funky town” comes on i just remember that whole event

@chantelinsertnamehere4513

9 ай бұрын

This reminded me of the times cereal boxes used to have game cds

One of my favorite afterthought campaigns is “Blasters T” in Yo Kai Watch 3. In Japan, it was an update for Yo Kai Watch 3, and was a teaser to the then upcoming “Yo Kai Watch Busters 2”. But when the game came over to the west, they still decided to add Blasters T, even though Busters 2 never made it out of Japan. It changed the game from a turn based RPG, to a dungeon crawler. Giving all 700 catchable Yo Kai unique movesets specific for this mode, nearly doubled the boss roster of the main game and had it’s own story, functioning as a sort of sequel to Yo Kai Watch 3’s main campaign. And all of this was all included with the game in the western release. It’s awesome, and surprisingly in depth. You can easily spend dozens of hours on it alone.

My favorite side-game-mode trope has to be the level builder. I know it’s kind of a cop-out answer, since that is an entire genre of game now, but I loved stage builders in racing games in particular. I have so many great memories of screwing around with my best friend in the Hot Wheels: Track Attack level builder. We had such a great time, despite the game being one of the very definition of mediocre racing games. In fact, that track builder was what made me first consider a career relating to video games. (The dream job is writing music for games.) That game could be broken wide open so easily, and eight-year-old us thought it was the funniest sh*t when the Wii made the goofy noise when it crashed. If you want to try a racing game track builder without trying to track down an obscure Wii game from a series with already plummeting expectations, there are a couple good options. Despite the low bar set by the brand’s earlier games, Hot Wheels Unleashed is probably one of the best arcade racers out there, with a track builder to match, and a sequel coming this fall. (Both games are on all major platforms, and the first game is on XBox Game Pass.) I’ve never played Trackmania 2020 myself, but it has a huge following, and some of the most in-depth level creator tools that don’t involve modding the base game.

Finally, someone else who understands how absolutely amazing City Trial is.

@sloth3066

11 ай бұрын

wish we could have a kirby air ride online remastered in 2023

I'm so happy you dedicated a section to City Trial since it was one of the defining games/game modes of my childhood. My other defining memories include Super Monkey Ball 2 party games, Subspace Emmisary, the Chao Garden in Sonic Adventure 2, and the party games of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, specifically Checkerboard Chase. Also, I'm glad to see you back, and I'm ready for much more banger videos and streams 😎

Dolphins are very cool. It almost feels nostalgic... like you're reliving the good ole days.... with so many unexplored options....for free.....

@pina6540

11 ай бұрын

I love how, in my mind, they emulate this freedom that we used to have.. to just play.. have fun.. without the greed

I do love me some bizarre game modes. Shows the devs wanted to have as much fun as the players and vice versa. Also, Super Monkeyball really did have the absolute best minigames. Man's spittin' facts.

i loved that one mortal kombat game mode. barakka straight up impales a monk by the guts rips into his face with his jaws eats up his face and throws him across the rooms at the feet of liu kang. my man straight up walks up to the monk like "you good?"

Man the modes for The How to Train Your Dragon game on Wii were fun as hell, mostly the first two, the one where you fly and pick up sheep and return to them their place, and the button pressing where you melt ice, and also the matching the appearance was great! They are a blast, if though they take a bit to reach.

Man, I really loved this video. One of the franchises I really love are the Mortal Kombat, and the one I played the most of was Armaggedon on the PS2 of my cousins. If we weren't beating the living shit out of each other and doing those crazy custom fatalities we were just playing Motor Kombat for hours because of how bloody and fun it was.

@Skooch

11 ай бұрын

Did you ever play Chess Kombat in Deception? That mode was also turbo goated.

@randomtaglmao

11 ай бұрын

@@Skooch Nah, i'm just a zoomer that got lucky to play Armaggedon, it was the only game I played on the 3D era. Tho the oldest MK I played was I believe the 3rd game on the PS1, or maybe the 2nd, can't remember correctly

@hellberV

11 ай бұрын

@@Skooch God, that was so fucking bad. Best memories of my childhood.

@1FallenPhoenix

11 ай бұрын

@@Skooch Literally Chess Kombat was my JAM back in the day. That and the Mortal Kombat Racing

8:06 "Lookit Sub-Zero. They have him a little sled." Amazing line delivery - I love it.

I miss game modes like these for sure. I wish games would go back and make some of these again. You've earned yourself a sub continue the good work!

I almost never notice when you stop uploading, but when you come back I find a Skooch filled hole in my heart made whole again ❤

I used to absolutely love going through the Brawl campaign and discovering what stickers did was a game changer. My friends have always been better than me at pretty much any game, so I constantly get my ass railed. Brawl campaign was a good game mode for me to discover characters and practice them, as well as find my favorite ones and have fun playing a game I thought was amazing, but that I couldn't really enjoy because of skill gap

we could say youtube shorts is a bad gamemode, doesnt have "time attack" on it but its pretty similar

I didn't have a memory card for my Game Cube for years, and the only game I had was Kirby's Air Ride. I loved that game so much it didn't even matter that I couldn't save and it got to the point where I could get the achievements to unlock the things I wanted immediately. When we finally got a memory card we also got another controller, and my sister and I spent untold days playing City Trial. Almost had all the achievements too!

Ah yes, the Soul Caliber 3 RTS campaign. I loved that game mode! Only problem is, there was a bug in the game mode that would corrupt your progress making you restart ALL over. I cant tell you how many times I made it to level 5. Call it a day cause I spent a good amount of time trying to get back to that point, only to boot the game up and it says "Your save file has been corrupted."

These video essay's are seriously some of my favorite on the platform :)

I think it's already been mentioned, but not even an honorable mention to Chao Garden is unforgivable.

As a member of a family of 5, Bowser Party (A Game Mode in a game about Mini Games) took up the majority of our weekends when we had the Wii U. It was a blast.

Boy what a time to accidentally hit my notification bell

You covered the big ones I can recall, so a lot of my list will be rehashing. Spent hours with my Chaos in SA2. Always enjoyed Break the Targets and Adventure Mode (an actual palatable precursor to Subspace Emissary) in Smash Melee, but the Event Matches were what stood out to me the most. Just bite-sized, cool, and unique gimmick matched that I would say are undeservedly overlooked as a whole. Super Monkey Ball 2 minigames are obviously incredible. Battle Mode in Mario Kart 64. Pokémon Stadium speaks for itself. I feel like I'm forgetting a deep memory but that's all I've got for now.

Great video! Thank you for your hard work. Favorite alternate game mode was probably ATV Offroad Fury 3's custom waypoint maps. We used to spend hours making our own race tracks and racing each other. Great game, great times.

love the fun you obviously had making this video

Kirby air ride SLAPS! Came back years later and I'm having just as much fun!

9:45 OMG. Skooch is talking about League again. LET'S GO!

Recently been dealing with issues in life right now but once again i find another great channel talking about video games. have a great day if you even just exist

I'm so glad to see City Trial get the love it deserves I had a lot of good times playing it with my friends

Kirby Air Ride is such an unmatched GOAT that I've referenced it to just about everyone I know forever

Star Wars Battlefront 2 was my childhood and holy cow the amount of game modes in that was amazing

flatout 2 comes to mind, it was a basic racing game, but it had these minigames that you could play with your friends where you needed to different tasks with your car, like jumping to a darts table, playing bowling and american football, it was hella fun

the Soccer minigame on Ape Escape 2 is absolutely INSANE, I played the campaign to 100% just to get the best monkees so I could kick that spikeball on the enemy's faces so hard they'd fly off

If I had to pick one weird game mode that I loved, it would have to be PokerStar Studios in Pokemon Black 2. You got to create your own movies in game by doing these puzzle-like pokemon battles, and you could watch them at a theater any time you want after you finished them. All the movies had multiple different endings you could get depending on how you completed the battle, some of them even requiring you to purposely lose in a certain number of turns. Some the movies would even have fake pokemon for you to battle, that would then be green screened into the movie when you watch it, which was so crazy to me as a kid. Everything about this mode was so fun and memorable to me. I remember clocking over 120 hours into Black 2, and I'm pretty sure at least half of that was from PokerStar Studios

I remember playing a 2 player mode in new supermario bros for my ds lite, where it was a map and you could collect coins for a random power up, i playd house in it with my friend all night, praying for a blue shell or a mini mushroom every time i got to 10 coins :D

@danielandrade7593

11 ай бұрын

I had forgotten how amazing that was. I recall having a tournament at my school for that game mode when I was 8 haha

COD Zombies is, was, and always will be the best alternate game mode in any game ver. Especially because it was one of the few games I remember getting to play to bond with my brothers in my teenage years. It was so much of an influence on me that when I head zombies mode was coming back with advanced warfare I went out to convince my parents to get it for me so I wouldn't have to go to my cousins place to play it. To give an idea I never played a cod multiplayer until Advanced warfare because we were all so intent on playing zombies together. But I love your willingness to cover a topic like this, since alternate game modes are a lost bit of gaming that really helps take a game out of it's comfort zone and become something infinitely more fun. (Also afterthought campaigns? You mean the main campaign of any fighting game lmao? (Excluding Blazblue and guilty gear since those are more visual novels than anything))

I almost sneez my drink with the SKID GAME in 5:40, I blame u for my almost dead

Volleyball in castle crashers Utterly amazing pure unadulterated chaos

Another amazing game mode was the PvP mode from One Piece Unlimited Cruise. The game is actually an adventure game but lets you play in a mode where you and another person chooses characters based on their "cost". You had ten slots to choose from and the characters would cost 3, 4 and 5 points. Thing is, you could also play as every enemy and boss that appeared in this game. Normal enemies would only cost 1 or 2 points and would actually appear as an army similiar to the story mode where you control one of the enemies while AI controls the others. I'm actually surprised how creative the bosses were translated to playable characters. Moria is one of the few bosses who can't dodge roll. With his normal attack combo he creates a shadow clone running down the opponent that he then swaps with when inputing the dodge. Alternatively, he can input his shadow bat attack to let the shadow clone explode in a wave of bats.

Battlefront 2's (2005) Instant action overall was the catalyst of many a good memory for me. More specifically the hero mode on Mos Eisely where the game pit all heroes vs all villains in the most retched hive of scum and villainy.

I know exactly what you mean Skooch! There's a bumper golf-carts mode in the Over The Hedge PS2 game that I spent way too much time on.

Aaargggh, Skooch, breaking my heart here with no mention to Ape Escape while you’ve got the OST playing. But to be fair, you’ve gotta collect the mini games throughout the games and in cases like Ape Escape 2’s Monkey Soccer, you had to collect the monkeys from the main game to put them in your roster, but I think that’s what made it so worthwhile to try and find them all

I really like the "endless mode" of a 2-d platformer called Copy Kitty. Rougelikes are cool and all but i like this endless mode specifically because it doesn't feel like one. No upgrades and no real exploring, but this game has over 100 weapons you can use and the room you're in loops on itself and continuously generates new terrain. The room also changes to a different one that has different properties every 10 waves of enemies cleared. So combat and navigating around the changing environment are what give the feeling of adapting to what you're given, maybe even moreso because you can't pray for good rng for item upgrades or something to make the rest of your run easier. With almost as many bosses unique to this mode as there are in the main game, many of them with elemental variants, its a good time

My favourite gamemode would have to be cod zombies (mainly the black ops games). I have so many memories of me and my brother grinding origins to beat it on xbox 360 in 2013.

Bro I loved the sub space, I spent a lot of time trying to beat it, and that final boss, God was he difficult

Definitely not an endorsement of quality in all cases, but here are some of my favorite game modes I've played: The multiplayer in ZombiU. It's a horde mode for the players using regular controllers, but a kind of strategy game for the Gamepad player. Really made me wish that some kind of D&D-like game had been made for the console. Luigi's Ghost Mansion in Nintendo Land. Again, really fun asymmetric multiplayer that made great use of the Gamepad. The Great Cave Offensive in Kirby Superstar. Milky Way Wishes is my favorite campaign in that game, but it's just the standard game with permanent power-ups. GCO takes the base game and makes it into a treasure hunt in a huge dungeon you can traverse as you see fit. The full-fledged CCG they built into Xenosaga 1 for some insane reason. I sank way too many hours into that thing, even though I never even beat the main game.

i think my favourite game mode is gun game in shooter games as well as gun game reverse and other variations. its just a smart way to test your skills on all the guns in the game

Always a good day to see a skooch post

My two favorites are from ”Madagascar 2: The Video Game” and they are Jungle Chess and the golf one! Golf one is just like every golf game and its just alot of fun! But the GOAT is Jungle chess: it basically made chess just funny by making every piece have a powerlevel and certain characters being able to hide in tall grass! I studied openings for that game!

I'll always remember when I completed Dino Crisis 2 and suddenly there was a 2 player dinosaur fight game for me to play with my brother. It's not my favorite game mode but it immediatly came to mind when I started watching the video.

Dude the car battle mode in Mario Party 5 was sick. I don't think it really aged well but I remember pouring hours of my time between school and bed time as a kid into that mode. Fun as hell and it offers PVP too.

When Skooch started talking about weird tacked on campaigns I immediately thought of SoulCalibur 3's and was really hoping it would get a mention. I spent so much time playing that game mode.

Even though this game mode was actually the main thing in the game, I always saw Crash Team Racing's main campaign as an afterthought. For me they focused on making a really good racing game and then made a map and story for it. With the remake and the ways of playing it online it is something i feel is even stronger than before.

skooch i just wanna let you know your videos are awesome to watch while i eat

Yeah CSGO has this weird mode called "Competitive" idk what it does tho.

This was really entertaining!

My favourite gamemode? Community-created maps. (Yea i know this is cheating lmao). I do not know how much time i sank into StarCraft 2's Arcade Mode, which gave the players unlimited customizability and creativity to create maps or scenarios. There were so many interesting ones. A cat-and-mouse chasing gamemode called Probes vs Zealots: One player is a Zealot, the other players are Probes, and the Zealot must kill the probes. Since the Zealot is strong the probes must hide and escape. You can build structures to prevent the Zealot from killing you, while you gather resources. Ice baneling escape: You are a baneling (that explodes) and you must escape each zone without touchign the walls (otherwise you explode) Zombie City, where you select a unit and kill the zombies, earn points and get stronger, as each wave gets more stronger, There are classes liek tanks, snipers etc. and you need to coordinate to survive Eras Zombie Invasion, you take control of a nation and each nation must cooperate to defend against the zombie invasio ncoming form the east. Some natiosn are good at pritnign resources while other offer combat bonusese. MineralZ, where there are waves of enemies and you must mine for resources and build defenses. Basically a Tower Defense Game. Marine Arena 2, take control of a squadron of marines and eliminate the other players. The more you kill per round the more money you get to buy upgrades. There even was a Among Us kinda game (way before the actual among us became popular) where you are in a lobby of marines and a big killer alien, who can disguise themselves as the others, wants to infect others and eliminate the marines. The marines must complete objectives in order to escape via a craft. Nexus Wars, Desert Strike, CrapPatrol 2, Mafia, Zealot Hockey.... too many fun modes

The battle mode in Lego Star Wars the Clone Wars was my favorite thing as a kid. My brother and I would play that for hours.

I remeber spending many hours playing the Pokeathlon inside Pokemon SoulSilver. Not sure how many people share that experience, but man... good times.

New Super Mario Bros. mini games on the DS hit different. And don't even get me started on the wireless connect mode where you have to steal stars from each other.

Idk if it counts since they are really short, but a game called Ultrakill has secret levels that are all kinds of wacky and i personally think are pretty unforgettable. Now if i had to choose a game mode though itd have to be the Conkers Bad Fur Day ones. Playing the teddy bear vs squirrel war or the bank heist with friends was always fun.

One completely underrated game mode, not for Smash bros bros but for Skylanders, it's not battle arena but ringout,Ringout was so fun and had basic and understandable mechanics

It might be stretching the definition a bit but... F-Zero GX has a fantastic "afterthought" campaign where you just do various objectives. Like murdering an entire gang with your car, or literally the plot of the movie Speed.

Hey Skooch, for some reason your channel disappeared from my feed, but then I woke up today and thought to myself, "What is that madman cooking up lately?", then checked your channel, and I can't believe I've been missing out on such bangers.

I really like Sly 3 and the multiplayer modes gave me tons of memories. They were mostly multiplayer versions of minigames from the story campaign and they were not super well made but it was still a ton of fun.

This game is pretty old and in all honesty I don't know where you can even find it today but Guilty Gear Isuka was a very unique fighting game. One thing it did have that sadly is not talked about much is the very well-polished beat'em up gamemode. Firstly you'd make your own robot character and unlock new moves which were re-animated versions of other character's. Secondly the campaign had all these unique mechanics and secrets and easter eggs and hidden paths to different levels (which I still don't know how I got but it seems like it was all about having a good combo?) and despite being rather short it was always a fun experience. Finally the final bosses were Sol&Ky the two main characters with entirely new movesets compared to the versions we got in the game. As a bonus you'd even unlock the goons you fought as (awful) playable characters to use!

If u have played monkey target with three friends, theory crafting paths to sneak stars from your rivals, sweating under the weight of your greed and being lifted by small minded spite, learning to miss the jump and bombing into the cusp of the ocean at 200 and cursing the wind, then you have tasted the high life. Having a taste of what speedrunners do for fun. Then u may play kirby air ride: city trial with me and mine, and be humbled.

this new style of videos you’ve been doing go hard skooch

It's so hard to think of something that was as simple while being insanely enjoyable as City Trail in Kirby's Air Ride. We need a sequel. We need a City Trail 2. So many hours, so many, spent on that as a kid.

One of my favorites was Galatic Conquest Mode on Star Wars Battle Front 2. Goated game mode and miss playing it with my friends.

I am reminded of the RPG Quest Mode in Ehrgeiz. It was unique af and HARD as heckkkk! Definitely check it out!

I'm not sure what category it would fall under, but the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure 2 became my primary reason for even playing the game. I really wish they would make a whole game based on that concept.

There was a game mode in Star Wars battlefront 2 (2005 version) where you fought on different planets and if you won a battle you get benefits from that planet. Of course it was done in turns so your own planet could be taken back. Whoever got to the others home base won. I just remember wasting hours on just playing that mode.

As much as how Legends of Runeterra isn't as prominent as the game it's based on (or at least not as popular in my region) and with many game modes in the Labs area, the Path of Champions gamemode is the breath of fresh air that I've been looking for in a CCG. Putting a rogue-like singplayer element to the game motivates me to try and conquer the mountain-high challenges they put up, even when some might be repetitive. Might be because of my bias on rogue-likes but this gamemode, for me, has been a satisfying past time, both on mobile and pc

I thought revenge was a childhood hallucination.

SO GLAD TO SEE SOME CITY TRIAL LOVE OMGGGG

i missed ur videos so much !!!!!

Oh, SC3 campaign is my favorite, I play that sooooooo much. I played with my brother and each lose or stage, we changed crontroller. It was so much fun

I miss games that let you unlock cheats,funny modes, random skins. Like a lot of the games I played as a child had those like for example the Lego Star Wars series, hell Even Uncharted let you unlock silly things

Hint for kirby city: get the light blue winged thing. Get light as a feather. This way, you can win if longjump kinda minigame. And run the fuck away from your rivals in the city.

I remember the multiplayer mode on New Super mario Ds, where you're Mario vs Luigi, supposed to collect 5 stars to win, but we basically just past the entire time throwing fireballs to each other, or figuring out if The Giant mushroom was better than the invincibility star... That and god bless Luigi Jack.

Wrestlemania XIX is one of the greatest wrestling games ever made and Revenge mode was a big part of why. Even more fun than just whipping construction workers off the building was using someone like Kurt Angle or Brock Lesnar to suplex them off.

honestly my favorite mini game mode was from xenogears on ps1, the arena battles. it was janky but i spent so much time playing it that i would beat all the battles b4 i would progress in the main story.

City Trial- **shot** Okay if we exclude that, how about Death Wish from Hat in Time? The fact there is literally a minimal A presses mission **built into the game** is amazing! …Also did anyone else remember the mission mode or whatever of SADX? The objectives are a bit jank but it’s nice. There’s probably more that could come to my mind but city trial takes up the majority of my memories with side modes in gaming.

This is not gonna gain a lot of traction but my favourite game in general is Lost Saga precisely for the reasons you've said here. What, you don't like yourself a 3D arena fighter like Smash bros? Well, what if I told you that you can mix n' match the various abilities and attacks as you wish, creating your own personalized set and look? What if there's like, 30 different game modes, from soloing a tower of NPCs, to fighting a world boss together with other players in an arena, to a simple team deathmatch, to 1v1, to Hold the Crown (which is basically just who gets to live longest), to a Fighting Game spoof mode which turns the game into a 2D 1v1 fighter where your teammates become spectators and can bet on the winner, to Prisoner which is an Elimination Team Deathmatch in which your teammates that go down are stripped naked before being eliminated and you can rescue them before they are killed so they can either grab their own clothes (and abilities) back or, if those have despawned, the opponents'. It was so much fun, man. Shame it died multiple times outside of Asia, I don't even know if it can be found legally anymore, although I know it's got a thriving Indonesian community.

Monkey target 2 bgm is such a blessing to the world

I used to see your videos once in a while as I wasnt even a fan of LoL, now, im subscribed, with notifications and enjoying the new content.

I know that this is a very basic answer, but I love Target test and the modes like that from melee and 64. It not only shows how the characters work, It gives opportunities to add attention to detail, keeping things fun.

Can't really think of a lot of gamemodes but one I absolutely loved was Plants vs Zombies's Zen Garden, it was just very cozy and enjoyable together with the music(talking about the original pvz not pvz2)

I loved the pokeathelon from soul silver and heart gold

Spelunky deathmatch gamemode unbelievably goated. Just insane, rapid fire matches of constant action even with cpus is a blast

As a fellow Nintendon't: Crash Bash for the PSX was the goat of friends hangouts.