godzillajoe Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 (edited) For the 2600, is this all the game that both players are on screen doing stuff at once? Turn based games like Checkers or 3-D Tic Tac Toe were omitted because you can't do anything until your opponent does first This also excludes unreleased prototypes, name variations for the Sears carts and PAL games Air-Sea Battle Armor Ambush Atlantis Basketball Bee-Ball Boxing Breakout Canyon Bomber Combat Demolition Herby Demons To Diamonds Dodge'em Double Dragon Double Dunk Dragster Entombed Fall Down Fishing Derby Football Flap Ping Freeway Frogs and Flies G.I. Joe: Cobra Strike Go Fish! Gunfight Guardian Home Run Ice Hockey Indy 500 International Soccer Joust Karate M-4 (2005 Minigame Multicart) M.A.D. M*A*S*H Marble Craze Mario Bros Maze Craze Medieval Mayhem Motorodeo Oink Outlaw Party Mix Pele's Soccer Pete Rose Baseball Phantom II Quick Step Racquetball Rampage RealSports Baseball RealSports Boxing RealSports Football RealSports Tennis RealSports Soccer RealSports Volleyball Sky Diver Slot Racers Space Invaders Space War Sprintmaster Starship Star Wars: Jedi Arena Steeplechase Stella's Stocking (Grandma's Revenge, Cold War games) Street Racer Summer Games (certain events) Super Baseball Super Challenge Baseball Super Challenge Football Superman Surround Swordfight Sync (Me First! game option) Tennis Thunderground Title Match Pro Wrestling Track And Field Video Olympics Warlords Warring Worms Warring Worms: The Worm Returns Winter Games (certain events) Wizard Of Wor Worm War I Edited March 5, 2008 by godzillajoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
128bytes Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 (edited) Excellent list, though incomplete. I can think of 5 off the top of my head: Dodge'Em, game 3. Player 1 is the car, Player 2 is the "crash car" simultaneously (with the 2 roles reversing after each life) Oink!, game 3. Player 1 is the pig, Player 2 is the wolf simultaneously (with the 2 roles reversing after each life) Summer Games and Winter Games have events (swimming and speedskating are 2 of them) with some events that feature 2 player simultaneous gameplay. Demons to Diamonds has 2 player simultaneous paddle gameplay. Any other omissions? Edited September 19, 2006 by 128bytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 Thanks. I wasn't sure about Dodge'em, it's been a while. Armor Ambush is one that I missed as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 One of Atlantis's game selections allows each player to use a particular side cannon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Superman I think G.I. joe is two player simultaneous as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted September 19, 2006 Author Share Posted September 19, 2006 (edited) Superman is weird because one joystick controllers the left/right movements and one controls up/down. Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Sounds like a mess to actually play it that way. But I'll add it. G.I. Joe and Atlantis as well. Edited September 19, 2006 by godzillajoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Yancey Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) Demon Attack has a variation where control of one ship alternates every few seconds between two players. Novel idea. Here's an obscure variation...Star Ship has a 2 player lunar lander game where one player is the lander and the other player moves the moon trying to avoid the lander. Control alternates every few seconds when the colors change. Sometimes we'd laugh so hard playing this one, we'd have to take a rest between games! LOL Edited September 20, 2006 by D.Yancey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) Space War Entombed Edited September 20, 2006 by Christophero Sly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 Demon Attack has a variation where control of one ship alternates every few seconds between two players. Novel idea. Here's an obscure variation...Star Ship has a 2 player lunar lander game where one player is the lander and the other player moves the moon trying to avoid the lander. Control alternates every few seconds when the colors change. Sometimes we'd laugh so hard playing this one, we'd have to take a rest between games! LOL Thanks. I didn't add these though because you take turns doing stuff. Technically you're not playing at the same time. Anyone disagree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candiru Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 M*A*S*H Star Wars: Jedi Arena Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 no, you missed his explanation. you are both in control at the same time (Star ship.) it just swops between one player controller the moon and one player controlling the ship, if you understand. so you are always both playing at the same time, but what you are controlling changes. this is also true in the two player modes of star ship where player one is controlling the target and player two is controlling the ship that the target is trying to destroy. as a matter of fact, all of star ships two player modes are full simultaneous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianC Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Xenophobe The 2600 version seems to be 2-player alternating only despite the use of the split screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 OK I'll check them out when I get home and add or remove them to the list. Thanks guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.Whiz Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Demon Attack has a variation where control of one ship alternates every few seconds between two players. Novel idea. Here's an obscure variation...Star Ship has a 2 player lunar lander game where one player is the lander and the other player moves the moon trying to avoid the lander. Control alternates every few seconds when the colors change. Sometimes we'd laugh so hard playing this one, we'd have to take a rest between games! LOL Thanks. I didn't add these though because you take turns doing stuff. Technically you're not playing at the same time. Anyone disagree? I can somewhat understand your reasoning here, but I think that unlike Chess and Checkers, you actually are playing at the same time since you can't exactly take off and make a sandwich or something. So I guess this is one of those border line ones -- do you include games where both players are actively involved, or games where both players are actually controlling sprites at the same time? I remember playing this one -- it was a lot of fun. Of course it would always end up that you would purposely steer the ship into an impossible situation for the other to get out of once his turn came around... I did note one that you missed on your list: Super Breakout has a two-player version. ~G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 OK I added Starship and M*A*S*H. What variations of Demon Attack and Super Breakout allow for two player simultaneous? I'll have to check out the manuals in the mean-time. My idea for this list was all two player games where BOTH can do things at the same time without waiting for another player to finish his "turn" Classic example is Mario Bros. One guy is Mario and one is Luigi and they're both doing something at any given time, independent of what the other guy is doing. I didn't understand the Starship explanation but I get it now. In Demon Attack, if you both control the cannon but alternate turns every few seconds, I wouldn't really count that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FujiSkunk Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 (edited) The 3-player and 4-player game variations of Breakout have two players playing at the same time. Each paddle's range is half the playfield. Super Breakout does not have any simultaneous play. The players alternate in all 2-player game variations. Edited September 20, 2006 by skunkworx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub_bobby Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Are you interested in homebrews? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted September 20, 2006 Author Share Posted September 20, 2006 Are you interested in homebrews? Of course. I listed Go Fish!, Fall Down etc. after all. Did I miss some? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Are you interested in homebrews? Of course. I listed Go Fish!, Fall Down etc. after all. Did I miss some? Marble Craze. Two players with a split screen. It's great simultaneous play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.Whiz Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 The 3-player and 4-player game variations of Breakout have two players playing at the same time. Each paddle's range is half the playfield. Super Breakout does not have any simultaneous play. The players alternate in all 2-player game variations. You know, I remember playing it and I thought that it was Breakout, but I couldn't find a reference to it. I did find a reference to a two-player game in Super Breakout, and assumed that must be it. I stand corrected! ~G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub_bobby Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Are you interested in homebrews? Of course. I listed Go Fish!, Fall Down etc. after all. Did I miss some? Oh. I just missed them in your list; that's all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 Bumping this one just for kicks after adding Bee-Ball and Stella's Stocking Did I get them all yet? Maybe I should add the 7800 games and the protos that were completed like Polo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Superman is weird because one joystick controllers the left/right movements and one controls up/down. I used to play Spindizzy on the C= 64 with a friend. It used the same control method for 2 players and was a blast. Bumping this one just for kicks after adding Bee-Ball and Stella's Stocking Did I get them all yet? Medieval Mayhem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0c7 Posted February 24, 2008 Share Posted February 24, 2008 Phantom II also has a 2 player option (one player controls the enemy jet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted February 24, 2008 Author Share Posted February 24, 2008 (edited) Medieval Mayhem = duh! How did I miss that one? Added Phantom II as well. Edited February 24, 2008 by godzillajoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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