Co-op multiplayer games

[davidbrit2]

Just wondering what other cooperative games there are for the 2600, and if I've overlooked anything good. I can only think of a few off the top of my head, and while many of them feature players competing against a common enemy rather than directly against one another, there's usually still an element of competing against each other for the higher score. I suppose the cooperative play style just wasn't as mature at that point.

 

Dark Chambers

Worm War I

Joust (Unless you want to play adversarially)

Mario Bros (Ditto)

G.I. Joe (Features both cooperative and competitive play modes)

Space Invaders

 

 

[Crazy Climber]

Fall Down!

Best co op game ever

[davidbrit2]

Fall Down!

Best co op game ever

 

Looks like a cool game, but I'm not seeing the cooperative elements at first glance, i.e. one player being able to prolong the survival of the other by defeating some common threat.

[Mxyzptlk]

Wizard of Wor.

[+MattelAquarius]

Team Warlords.

[+thegoldenband]

I had a list going a while back of all the multiplayer games with simultaneous play. Off the top of my head I can see a few that haven't been mentioned, like Atlantis, Breakout/Super Breakout, Double Dragon, Entombed, and Rampage.

 

I can't think of any games where players alternate turns and collaborate. Do players really help each other in Dark Chambers, or do they just pursue their interests in parallel?

[davidbrit2]

I can't think of any games where players alternate turns and collaborate. Do players really help each other in Dark Chambers, or do they just pursue their interests in parallel?

 

Well, their interests involve killing monsters and reaching the next level, so much like Gauntlet, you can definitely help each other to those ends.

 

And I can't think of anything with turn-based cooperative play either. You'd probably only see that in something like a strategy game or board game, and I don't think the 2600 has a lot of those. Does Bridge let you play with a partner?

[Gorfy]

One of the levels of Demon Attack alternates players on the same score.

[+thegoldenband]

 

Well, their interests involve killing monsters and reaching the next level, so much like Gauntlet, you can definitely help each other to those ends.

 

And I can't think of anything with turn-based cooperative play either. You'd probably only see that in something like a strategy game or board game, and I don't think the 2600 has a lot of those. Does Bridge let you play with a partner?

 

Whoa, I didn't realize Dark Chambers allowed 2P simultaneous, simply because I've hardly played it and it wasn't on my list! I've updated the list and added it, as well as Gorfy's suggestion of Demon Attack.

 

Bridge is 1P only, I believe.

[Crazy Climber]

 

Looks like a cool game, but I'm not seeing the cooperative elements at first glance, i.e. one player being able to prolong the survival of the other by defeating some common threat.

If both players die the game ends

[WolfAmongWolves]

Video Olympics has a few really good four player games (soccer, I believe), where two players cooperate as a team against the other two players.

[IHATETHEBEARS]

Entombed has both players playing at the same time. You can choose to play against each other or as a team.

[Crazy Climber]

Entombed has both players playing at the same time. You can choose to play against each other or as a team.

That game "could" have been sooooo cool, too many little irritating flaws though...

Edited October 24, 2014 by Crazy Climber

[Living Room Arcade]

On 10/22/2014 at 8:49 PM, davidbrit2 said:

 

Well, their interests involve killing monsters and reaching the next level, so much like Gauntlet, you can definitely help each other to those ends.

 

And I can't think of anything with turn-based cooperative play either. You'd probably only see that in something like a strategy game or board game, and I don't think the 2600 has a lot of those. Does Bridge let you play with a partner?

@davidbrit2 Not sure, but maybe the homebrew Euchre by Erik Eid might have 2 teams of 2 players.  

[Living Room Arcade]

On 10/22/2014 at 8:49 PM, davidbrit2 said:

 

Well, their interests involve killing monsters and reaching the next level, so much like Gauntlet, you can definitely help each other to those ends.

 

And I can't think of anything with turn-based cooperative play either. You'd probably only see that in something like a strategy game or board game, and I don't think the 2600 has a lot of those. Does Bridge let you play with a partner?

@davidbrit2 Dark Chambers Guantlet hack cooperative to stay alive as another commenter was saying.  

 

I like to turn single player games into a cooperative, two player effort.  Simply pass the joystick back and forth between yourself and your friend as you both play on the same team versus the computer opponent (or just to get the best score).  It's fun!  Works for turn-based games such as Bowling, Golf, Miniature Golf, Yahtzee, Poker Squares, Othello, Checkers, 3D Tic Tac Toe, Jammed, Hangman, the skeet shoot event in Summer Games, Trick Shot (1 player pool vs. computer).  (Those games where you don't die if you let go of the joystick.  So you can stop and pass the joystick to the other player when your turn is done.)  

 

Edited August 26, 2023 by Living Room Arcade