Multiplayer retro games

Cathy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 0:42

Hi,

I'm going to be running some retro games at a university gaming convention in a couple of months, and was wondering if anyone had any good ideas for multiplayer games to include? Preferably ones that are easy to emulate on a PC.

So far, my list includes...

SNES: Street Fighter II, Super Mario Kart, Rock N' Roll Racing, Unirally, Mortal Kombat II, Contra III, Micro Machines, Super Smash TV, Super Bomberman, Super Off Road

Megadrive: Streets of Rage, Doctor Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Golden Axe, Sonic The Hedgehog 2

YOG · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 0:53

You're sorted with just Smash TV and Contra Spirits! :DD

If you can have MAME running too, try Twinkle Star Sprites, Shippu Mahou Daisakusen, TMNT and Battletoads (which differs from the NES original in that it's purely a roaming beat-'em-up, so there's no Turbo Tunnel or Clinger-Winger to scare everybody off).

Cathy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 0:55

Mame is a great idea, thanks for that!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 0:57

I'd say Aliens Vs Predator, the Capcom arcade beat-em-up if you're doing Mame as well. I could list off a load of stuff, but they'd mostly be beat-em-ups

YOG · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 0:59

Glad to be of assistance! I'd name more, but I'd just end up spouting hundreds of shmups at you.

Which university is it, by the way?

nickachu · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:51

gradius, notso multiplayer, but ace none the less

Malc74 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:25

If you're going to go the MAME route, some obvious ones would be Bubble Bobble, Gauntlet, Supersprint, Golden Axe, Warlords & Snow Bros.

Nemmie · **Joined:** 13th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1643

Quartet in Mame.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:51

Gravity Force 2/Power in WinUAE.

Da5e · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:09

Extreme Violence and Scorched Tanks in WinUAE

Any of the Megadrive Micro Machines games.

RBR2 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 22:44

metalangel · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:27

Battletech on the Genesis (one player aims the weapons, the other steers the mech), and of course... General Chaos.

Perhaps harder to get working in an emulator, but the Game Genie had a code that would enable one player to move the pieces and the other to rotate them in Tetris. Oh, the arguments!

Cathy · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2009 19:32

Thanks for all your suggestions, I'm definitely going to try MAME.

Klatrymadon: It's at NUI Galway, in the west of Ireland.

MarcusJ · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 85

Chaos on the Spectrum. If you don't mind explaining rules. And people sneering.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Pang on the GX4000 supports two players.

Lotus 2 on the Amiga?

Skidmarks on the Amiga?

Or do you mean more than 2 player?

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Stunt Car Racer on Amiga/ST serial link was fun. Not sure how emulatable it is though, sorry.

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:38

you missed sensi!

metalangel · **Posted:** Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:31

It's occured to me that you've missed out Spy vs Spy!

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