the greatest two-player game of ALL TIME

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i. "peanut butter panic"
ii. basic gameplay was to get fat by eating peanut butter sandwiches, and cooperation was essential
iii. TRS-80, C-64, Atari

i. Bubble Bobble
ii. cooperation essential especially in later screens, or just to get bonus items. also stealing best power ups was teh funniest.
iii. everything

any PS2 entries hint hint?

pro evolution soccer 1-6

yes!! i have #6 - single player is only so-so fun.. in order to play on "normal" or "pro" levels you have to actually start memorising all those crazy juke moves and 1-2-3 passes, which is too much like homework for me.. but 2-player - it don't matter!

yeah single player is pretty much exactly as much fun as kicking a ball off a wall.

2 player, co-operative or versus is amazing. there's something immensely satisfying about co-operative and some of the goals you can score as one player runs down the line with the ball and the other peels into the box..

i. super puzzle fighter alpha 2
ii. it is a great, mesmerizing game with amazing depth and the best fuck-your-opponent mechanic in puzzle games ever
iii. Arcade, Saturn, PS1, GBA, and soon PSP and XBLA hubba hubba

ooh and I guess the other street fighter game's pretty good too

i. BOOM
ii. it was a two player bomberman clone with doom-inspired sprites and backgrounds, but unlike bomberman you could set multiple bombs from the beginning, and multiplayer was always (supposedly) cooperative, not competitive, and it was fucking HARD. plus having to use the same keyboard and computer monitor (pre-internet games) meant you and your drunk-ass buddy had to sit a maximum of six inches apart staring at the screen like complete and utter dweebs
iii. mac os classic (v8 + 9 i think)

tied with

i. river city ransom
ii. cooperative in the sense that it wasn't necessarily the POINT of the game to beat the shit out of each other, but oh hell yes you could bean the other guy in the back of the head with a lead pipe from across the screen and then watch him get mauled by the Frat Boys, hours of entertainment
iii. NES

i. international track & field (konami)
ii. i wrote about this already a while ago on the konami thread but it really is the best game ever; simple two button controls for every event allow for even the most fucked up player to compete, yet the simplicity of control is balanced by the maniacal level of rapid button bashing that is hilarious and fun to perform and watch, lots of huffing and puffing and red faces and feined exhaustion, plus the highest satisfaction level of any sports game i've ever played - nothing beats the feeling after throwing a javelin further than 100 metres or beating the 100 yard sprint in 7 seconds, as your fingernails stroke the X & O buttons with all the grace and timing of a japanese prostitute
iii. ps1

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ToeJam & Earl cosined.

Played it with my friend on emulator, was fucking amazing. High Five!

We're talking collaborative here?
Cuz my first thoughts were: Galaga, Ms. Pac Man, Joust, MK II, Street Fighter II...

STREET FIGHTER II TURBO
DUH
SNES

ANY LOVE FOR LIERO OR DOES NO ONE KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I AM TALKING ABOUT?

(ps. where is drunk thread)

SMASH TV on SNES bcuz PWNJ

or

CS Sauce 2 player co-op vs bots, FLASHES & KNIVES ONLY

toe jam seconded

I'm hoping the remake of the Lego Star Wars games for the next-gens has better 2-player than the O.G.s

Aren't 2-player co-ops where you can still kill the other player the best, though?

apparently if you finish the PAL version of Ico you can play with two players, one controlling the kid, and one controlling the waifish girl! awesome

international track and field looks really good - i loved the arcade button-masher, this looks like an attempt to replicate the experience.. still i dunno if a PS2 controller can really stand up to the same kind of abuse that those cabinets did

at pizza places across the nation it was like a competition between the volume of the television mounted in the corner and the "badabadabadabadabadabada" emanating from the track and field machine in the video game nook

I don't know about best, but 2-player games I have fond memories of:

Street Fighter II
Double Dragon
TMNT: The Arcade Game (!)
Contra
Ice Climbers (I think this one was co-op, but you could hit and knock the other person off really easily?)
Bubble Bobble
Gauntlet
Streets of Rage
Rampage (!!!)

Contra.
Pop'n'twin bee.

I don't know if I can decide between Virtua Fighter 2, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter Alpha or Night Warriors: Darkstalkers 2.

Oh wait I can: NIGHT WARRIORS PWNS U

Night Warriors was pretty tight.

"Aren't 2-player co-ops where you can still kill the other player the best, though?"

haha YES. in HS me and my friend would get high and play co-op halo, except all we would do is kill each other with the melee attack over and over.

i guess i was kind of a douche in HS.

anyway yeah, street fighter II turbo, lock thread

Gunstar Heroes, Toejam & Earl, Street Fighter 2 Turbo and 3 Third Strike, Worms, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in World of Illusion, The Warriors and other games that ripped these off.

1. Baseball Stars

2. In Baseball Stars, you make your own team, name your own players, and play in an actual stats-keeping league. When you win games, you gain money from fan attendance (and with that money you power up your players and make your team better). The gameplay is incredibly addictive, and as soon as you start powering up your team, you want to keep playing and playing and playing just to make your team better. And when you get a couple friends and play in a league and see who can win the championship, it's just the greatest.

3. NES. Good luck finding a copy with a working battery!

E. Honda and his goddamn Hundred Hand Slap completely and totally RUINED every version of Street Fighter II for me. Fuck that game.

Bubble Bobble, on the other hand, is a great choice. You literally can't even finish the game without two players (unless you want the "bad ending").

<i>E. Honda and his goddamn Hundred Hand Slap completely and totally RUINED every version of Street Fighter II for me. Fuck that game.</i>

Play as E. Honda! (this only applies to the first sf2 obvs)

Bubble Bobble and River City Ransom were the games I opened this thread to post. I think the release of these games may have coincided with my first ever having friends haha...weep.

Also I remember one of the GC 007 games having some really great 2 player co-op missions, if we could resist the temptation towards drunken 4 player slap fights etc.

I think I had a really great time playing the newish Dragonball Z PS2 game recently, but it was someone else's house and 4 am and post-cowpunk show and ears ringing etc.

"2-player co-op missions" is a great concept, especially for stealth games, i.e. somebody distracts while the other throttles necks (or whatever), but has it ever really worked well? don't you always have to have a split-screen for this, which suX0r?

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory on two computers could do this, and, despite the disappointing lack of 2p missions to do, it was incredibly, INCREDIBLY fun. you could turn things on like, if your mic picked up your talking, people nearby might hear you.

or maybe i made that up. but i think it's true! anyway, it was BRILLIANT.

interesting article here. gamasutra's got really good feature and interview ideas.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1665/an_uphill_battle_chris_ferriera_.php

"2-player co-op missions" is a great concept, especially for stealth games, i.e. somebody distracts while the other throttles necks (or whatever), but has it ever really worked well? don't you always have to have a split-screen for this, which suX0r?

Bub Bob had essential 2play c-op gameplay, although primitive actions like blowing bubbles for your mate to jump on was about as far as it got. The rest was just 'make sure you kill the baddies on your side', or letting your mate get the power up you already have (unless your mean)

Perfect Dark on the n64 was split screen two player greatness too, tho no intelligent co-op from what i remember other than blast everyone to bits.

drunk excite truck with an SD card full of speed metal

uhhh buster brothers. they shoot bubbles

TOMBOTM, whenever we've enough batteries in the Wii for two, we always play Excitetruck. It's pretty hard to beat two dudes sitting bolt upright pivoting left and right shouting "AHHH SUPER TREE RUN - YOU CHEEKY FUCKER" and "YOU COCK, THAT WAS MY TRUCK SMASH".

Also, it's the only game I know where winning on points doesn't feel like an empty victory. You're supposed to win on points!

I now have an urge to play Excite Truck to 'Sheets Of Easter' by Oneida.

let's all start a noise band called Super Truck Smash

gears of war 2 player is a split screen game, but it's still really fun on split screen. The flanking maneuvers can be really fun to use if you do them well.

Been playing Contra and Super C with friends lately. Good times.

I would like to revise my answer to "drunk excite truck with an SD card full of The Music Of NFL Films"

hahahaha

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http://www2.worldvillage.com/wv/gamezone/images/screens/gear4.jpg

and http://www.youdontknowjack.com/