Best easy games to play with the wife, kids, or non-gaming friends

[gamegalaxy]

My Number 1 top multi-player game is Gauntlet Legends/Gauntlet Dark Legacy - Easy hack-n-slash fun! (PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PS2)

 

also ANY LEGO Type Game - LEGO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN is a blast!

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Other options:

 

Kickle Cubicle (NES)

SPARKLE UNLEASHED (almost any platform - check it out on PSN)

Columns (Genesis)

Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis)

Ghost Squad (wii)

Virtua Cop 1 + 2 - (Saturn)

Frogger (2600, colecovision, genesis)

Bust a Move (SNES)

Golden Axe 1 or 2 (Genesis)

Mario Kart Double Dash (gamecube)

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I hope this helps! Please update us if you find a game that works well for you!

[byonddrivn]

I'll second the Lego games suggestion. Another game for the Wii is Boom Blox, the second one is OK but the first one's a blast. Me and the wife used to play it all the time & she plays very little games other than singing in Rock Band.

[gamegalaxy]

Also if they're young kids Skylanders is really fun for them....although that opens the door to buying they extra toys and characters - but i've head a lot of fun playing that with my 6 year old nephew.

[Nebulon]

Pnickies - Arcade

 

Mouse Trap - ColecoVision

 

Defender - ColecoVision

 

Mr. Do - ColecoVision

 

Super Pac-Man - Arcade

 

Gauntlet - Arcade

 

Gauntlet II - Arcade

 

Joust - Arcade

 

Laser Blast - Atari 2600

 

Astrosmash - Intellivision

 

Galagon - Color Computer II

 

Lode Runner - Apple II (set on slow speed)

 

Bump'n'Jump - ColecoVision

 

 

 

As you might have guessed, it would be skill level 1 on the ColecoVision and for the arcades, just add quarters (or add more lives per coin)

Edited October 9, 2015 by Nebulon

[cimerians]

My wife is not good at games at all, here's what we play.

All of these are couch co-op with easy skill levels with the exception of arcade\pinball games:

 

NEW:

Zen\Pinball Arcade (PS3\4)

Diablo III (PS4)

You Don't Know Jack collection (PS4)

Mario Kart (WiiU)

Plants vs Zombies (PS3)

Peggle (PS3)

Pixeljunk Monsters (PS3)

Lego Star Wars\Indiana Jones (360)

Dungeon Seige III (360)

Baldurs Gate series (PS2\Xbox)

Champions of Norrath series (PS2\Xbox)

Justice League (PS2\Xbox)

 

 

OLD:

LIFE (PS1)

Final Fight

D&D Mystara beat em' games

X-Men Arcade

Simpsons Arcade

Gauntlet (all version even the new one)

Warlords (2600)

Frogger (CV\2600)

Asteroids (2600)

 

We play Golden Axe and Streets of Rage and this co-op platformy Ren and Stimpy game on the Genesis but those are pretty hard games to get through.