The 4-player (Four Player) Gaming Thread

[ianoid]

Alright, so I have a little game night now and again and we're always onto the 4 player gaming scene. I'd love to hear what people's favorite classic (pre-PS2) titles are for 4 player gaming. I'll list a few we hit all the time. I'd love to see a comprehensive list if there is one already, but at this point favorites would be good. You can see a glaring absence of NES, GEN, SAT and SNES.

2600 Warlords
8-bit Castle Crisis (arcade Warlords)
Dreamcast SF Rush 2049 (has a great battle mode)
Dreamcast Chu Chu Rocket
Dreamcast Virtua Tennis


My preference is for low skill pick up and play stuff, since it's not like we do this often.

[coreys429]

Battle mode for Mario Kart 64. Golden Eye no doubt on that one. Though I have had great times at Perfect Dark, World Isn't Enough as well. Those were great shooters as well for the 64. Super Off Road for NES....

[Phyeir]

Power Stone 2. With all the items around, it doesn't take long to pick that game up (grab item, beat nearest victim over he head)

Of course, Mario Party.. the ORIGINAL with the blister burning Cast Aways

[Superman]

I have only played the single player mode, but many people swear by the multiplayer mode for The Bomberman series. There are Bomberman games on a few different systems so, if you have a few different systems then it is likely you won't need the system, just the game.

Of course, I don't know offhand which games are the best, so, hopefully, a Bomberman expert will come by and point you in the right direction.

[Red Warrior]

For me personally, it never got any better than the original Super Bomberman for the SNES. Speed Zone set at 5 wins per match in Battle Mode... yeah... pure digital crack.

[swlovinist]

N64

Goldeneye
Starfox 64
Duke Nukem 64
007 The world is not enough
Smash Bros

Sat
Guardian Heroes....good times

And one that is quite fun on a ton of systems....Worms Anything

[Nirvana]

Power Stone 2. With all the items around, it doesn't take long to pick that game up (grab item, beat nearest victim over he head)

Of course, Mario Party.. the ORIGINAL with the blister burning Cast Aways

OMG. Power Stone 2 was amazing. I thought I was like the only one who ever played it.

NBA Jam TE Edition was an amazing 4 player game.

[crazyjackcsa]

I'll leave the Mario Parties/Karts and the shooters out since most people will mention them.

Worms. The original was the best, but all of them are really good.
Saturn Bomberman, I've never played the 10 player mode, but what a great game.

The DC was home to some really interesting 4 player games.

Power Stone 2 was fantastic.
Ooga Booga was a neat idea, too bad nobody played it online.
Fur Fighters was a shooter, but an often over looked one.
Dead or Alive 2 and Marvel Vs. Capcom both boast 4-Player Tag-Team modes

[ToddofDoom]

Pac-Man Vs. for the Gamecube is pretty classy. (It came bundled with Pac-World 2 Player's Choice, I think) It's a good game to just play a quick round or two.

I always liked the 4-player in Team Buddies for the Playstation. It's pretty hard to find and you have to play a lot of single player stuff to unlock multiplayer options. (Although I believe there is a cheat) The four player bomb rugby-style mode is some of the most fun I've had playing 4-player games. Pure chaos.

I am also a big fan of any game you can play through in one sitting as a four player group. Nothing worse than trying to get together over and over to finish your game.

[Arcade Antics]

Nothing tops Power Stone 2.

[Eric Dude]

Saturday Night Slam Masters on the SNES is an experience that you really can't get elsewhere! I hate wrestling games, but I love that game on 4P battle mode!

[LucidDefender]

Lords of Lunar - An awesome Warlords clone for the Playstation of the Lunar Making of CD. Can be activated by entering a button sequence during the intro.

[j_factor]

Death Tank and Death Tank Zwei for Saturn, hidden games in Powerslave and Duke Nukem 3D respectively. Simple but awesome.

And let's not forget the Worms series.

[Game Freak]

I unfortunately dont have very many, sadly, from the pre-ps2 era, as all my consoles bar the n64 are twoport systems. I do have 2600 warlords, but dont have the controllers for it, let alone a multitap if it needs it.

1. Pokemon Stadium 2
2. Monopoly

yeah, thats all i got. I also have only 3 n64 controllers, and ones a superpad 64 ><

[Ed Oscuro]

It's not really set up for four players, but there's always networked DOOM

I'm sure Major Stryker would be lots of fun four-player, too. Captain Comic as well.

[heybtbm]

N64 Goldeneye
Starfox 64
Duke Nukem 64
007 The world is not enough
Smash Bros

The Nintendo 64 was probably one of the lamest consoles in history, but is sure had a lot of awesome 4-player titles. 4-player Goldeneye and Smash Bros are better than most multiplayer games out right now.

[LucidDefender]

Death Tank and Death Tank Zwei for Saturn, hidden games in Powerslave and Duke Nukem 3D respectively. Simple but awesome.

And let's not forget the Worms series.

How does one unlock those, if you recall off-hand?

[j_factor]

Death Tank in Powerslave is unlocked by obtaining every "team doll" in the game. Death Tank Zwei is unlocked either by destroying every toilet in Duke Nukem 3D, or by starting a game of Duke with a Quake save file on your system.

[The 1 2 P]

Crash Team Racing on PS1. The racing mode was fun but so was the 4 player battle mode.

[Famidrive-16]

F-Zero X on the 64.

Battletanx on the same system is worth checking out for multiplayer alone, the game itself is average but I played that again with three other friends a while back and it turned into hours of shouting and mayhem.