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Best Two Player Games?

rfoutrfout
edited April 2005 in Games
By 'two player games' I mean those where two players can play at once, rather than games where each player must wait for a turn. I grew up out in the wilds, with only one other Spectrum owner my own age, and we got a lot of mileage out of Match Day 1 and 2, Match Point, Way of the Exploding Fist, Rock 'n' Wrestle, Barry McGuigan's Boxing, CRL's Formula One, and a budget title called (I think) BMX Racer. And I must also mention Target Renegade in co-operative mode.

Can anyone recommend any others?
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  • Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton
    edited April 2005
    Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2 are excellent two-player games.
  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited April 2005
    There was a submarine game (by Protek?) which could be played by two players over the Spectrum network (each on their own Speccy of course).? I think there was an air-combat game in the same vein...

    Sadly this idea was probably Doomed to failure. ;)
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  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited April 2005
    On 2005-04-19 20:55, Necros wrote:
    Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2 are excellent two-player games.

    Hear, hear!!!

    There were countless summers wasted in front of the boob tube playing this game.

    And Bubble Bobble of course.

    Skarpo
    :)
  • WhenIWasCruelWhenIWasCruel
    edited April 2005
    I think Realm Of Impossibility is quite funny in the "co-operative" mode, partially because the graphics are dementially ugly and confusing, and running away from a zombie made of matchsticks yelling at your mate (because one of the two is always going in the wrong way) may cause some laughs. Especially when you discover that YOU are the one going in the wrong way, and not your mate. "Or maybe it's just tragic".

    I know Realm Of Impossibility is considered a pile of excrements, but I think it's not so bad - my little cousins, used to Playstations and such, appreciate it too.


    [ This Message was edited by: WhenIWasCruel on 2005-04-20 17:39 ]
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  • BridoBrido
    edited April 2005
    kickstart!
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited April 2005
    Target Renegade
    Pang
  • DarenDaren
    edited April 2005
    Spy vs Spy. Ace!

    Daren
  • SkarpoSkarpo
    edited April 2005
    On 2005-04-19 22:02, WhenIWasCruel wrote:
    ...
    I know Realm Of Impossibility is considered a pile of excrements, but I think it's not so bad - my little cousins, used to Playstations and such, appreciate it too.

    I just remember the name of the company which published it ... oh, how we would giggle when we said that name.

    Skarpo
    :)
  • biotoxinbiotoxin
    edited April 2005
    Ace-2,Batty,Lotuse Esprit, Double Dash,Double Dragon-1,2,3 ,Xecutor and ,of course, Barbarian.


  • pietraszewskipietraszewski
    edited April 2005
    Kickstart and Batty for sure

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    [ This Message was edited by: pietraszewski on 2005-04-19 23:32 ]
  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited April 2005
    Way of the Exploding Fist, Sai Combat, IK+, ATV Simulator.
  • InsertFaveGameNameHereInsertFaveGameNameHere
    edited April 2005
    some classics there - bubble bobble, gauntlet, kickstart (only played the c64 version though - gasp!), way of the exploding fist!

    which is the one of them where it was in a city, and a bonus round was you kicking stuff in a little wherehouse room or something, and if you failed a tiger came out and got you or something?
  • HumbugHumbug
    edited April 2005
    Yeah I remember playing my sister on Way of the Exploding Fist. I loved the game until my sister got bored of it......well got bored of me thrashing the living daylights outta her :D
  • HumbugHumbug
    edited April 2005
    Also Bubble Bobble but this was on an Atari St. There was also a game called Bloodmoney on the ST aswell.
  • rfoutrfout
    edited April 2005
    Some excellent ideas here, and glad to see they're not all sports titles like the ones I mentioned above. And I can't believe I forgot about Barbarian! We must have spent hours on that with our 'get the first hit in and then keep rolling until the time is up' strategy. It was unsporting, but it worked.

  • GeeKayGeeKay
    edited April 2005
    ATV simulator
    Xybots
    Crimebusters
    Spy vs Spy


    The more you think, the bigger the list gets :)
  • MikalMikal
    edited April 2005
    Battlecars.
  • princmprincm
    edited April 2005
    I always liked playing the Way of the Exploding Fist (first part).
  • ArjunArjun
    edited April 2005
    Ikari warriors! Great fun in 2 player mode!

    Kickstart and Way of the Exploding Fist have been mentioned.

    Matchday! I was quite good at it in 2 player mode and invariable scored a dozen goals against my hapless friend.
    Zero - A modern Spectrum emulator for Windows.
    Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
  • WhenIWasCruelWhenIWasCruel
    edited April 2005
    Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, also.
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  • knows_naughtknows_naught
    edited April 2005
    Pong gets my vote
  • Alessandro TommasiAlessandro Tommasi
    edited April 2005
    Emlyn Hughes International Soccer -- also features cooperative play!
  • snurpsnurp
    edited April 2005
    Multi-Player Soccer Manager - how I laughed when my mate Stu accepted a job offer with Rotherham only to discover he'd inherited a team of complete muppets.

    The BMX one mentioned in the first post must be Codemasters' BMX Simulator - great fun.
  • andrewbroadandrewbroad
    edited April 2005
    Target;Renegade and Bruce Lee were fun in the way that you could either help or hinder your partner!

    Gauntlet.

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  • InsertFaveGameNameHereInsertFaveGameNameHere
    edited April 2005
    escape from the planet of the robot monsters! i LOVED that game, but then i *ahem* acquired it on MAME and i think on something else too, and its just bloody impossible. the isometric style is impossible to naivagate properly.

    i played the ST version so i don't know if its easier on that but i really love the game and the music and yeah it kicked ass with 2 players.
  • Bluce_ReeBluce_Ree
    edited April 2005
    Rodland... although the Amiga version is better than the speccy and arcade versions by a mile.

    Bombjack is excellent in a 1-up/2-up type way on the speccy.
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