Not enough same screen co-ops!

[Deep_Sleeper]

Anyone notice that?

Back in the day, same screen co-ops were dime a dozen. Now I understand with online resources being what it is, there's not that much demand for it, but there's not too many games that exist where your friends to come over and pick up a controller and play on the same team as you.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is one of those rare games that does that, but I do miss the days of Contra or...oh man, this is gonna date me, Chip n' Dale, Rescue Rangers!

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[Young Avenger]

I completely agree with you. I don't want to kick my friends asses all the time. Sometimes I want to kick ass with them. I would love it if SNK made a Metal Slug game that had 4-player online co-op. That would own.

[Serik]

Co-Op is probably the funnest gaming mode ever created. Twisted Metal II remains my co-op game of choice.

[Deep_Sleeper]

In all honest, when they were advertising "Dead Rising" on XBOX 360, I was ready to buy the 360 on the merit that Dead Rising would definitely be a co-op. I mean, how can it be anything else BUT, right?

You've got a million zombies and plenty of tools of the trade (the trade being killing zombies).

Yet the game is stictly one player and online isn't even frikkin' co-op! WTF? Talk about majorly dropping the ball.

And it's not that hard, either. I remember a while ago, this was around 98 or 99, there was this arcade game where you could play 1, 2, or 3 players co-op where you had guns and knives and all you did was take out zombies. It wasn't free roaming, but hell if it wasn't frikkin' fun to blow away zombies with friends.

[Young Avenger]

You mean rail games like House of the Dead and Time Crisis? Those type of games would be perfect for the Wii.

[The Zapper]

Remember the glory days of co-op arcades? TMNT and X-Men are still better than most of the stuff released today.

[Black Atom]

I'm really psyched about co-op Contra on the DS. I just hope it won't be in a limited capacity like it was in Portrait of Ruin. In the old days we used to hae contests in Contra of who could die the least.

[I Must Break U]

Remember the glory days of co-op arcades? TMNT and X-Men are still better than most of the stuff released today.

yeah man those were the days. I really wish they would release some distant co-op games. The last one i played that was remotely entertaining was OBSCURE for the ps2. Good news is they are coming out with a sequel.

[Jared H.]

I absolutely adore co-op games.

Sadly, the majority of them these days are xbox live arcade games.

[Serik]

During computer lab in high school, my friends and I would play various emulators on the PC: X-Men and TMNT arcade, Gunstar Heroes, Sunset Riders, etc. Two of used the keyboard and the other two used USB-controllers we bought specifically for that purpose. That was gaming at its best!

The next best thing are LAN parties because you're at least in the same room as people fighting on one of two teams. Toward the end of computer lab, we eventually had 15+ people playing Battlefield 42 and we got credit for setting up the whole thing :D

[Deep_Sleeper]

Those are the types of games that aren't being produced. Yeah, it's great that you can sit in your own place, taking out people with your friends with FPSs and none of the "enemy" are peeking over your shoulders to see where you are so they can hunt you down.

However, you don't have the experience of sitting around with friends and just talking to them while you're playing the game as a team.

There are a few. A friend of mine has a Mortal Kombat game that's pure co-op and it's frikkin' awesome, but the sad case is it's in the minority.

[Gargus]

I miss those days when alot of games were like that.

Some of the best times I had were taking my playstation to my friends house, putting two tvs in his computer room and using the link cable. We would play armored core against eachother for hours on end, eat tons of chips, drink beer and curse at eachother till we were hoarse playing that game. Even had big cardboard piece from a refrigerator box we put between the tvs so couldnt see the other screen.

I mean co-op across the net is all well and good but was just alot more fun when you could sit right there with folks and be able to talk and such and warn eachother.

Smash tv was one of the first I played like that, was great fun.