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favourite same-screen multiplayer games?

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played through trine2 recently with some friends (great game, my only complaint would be that the combat is much easier than the puzzling)

looking for recommendations for multiplayer-on-the-same-screen games. they don't need to be new, don't need to be like trine, but yeah... something fun please if you can think of anything
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The Lost Vikings
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The various LEGO games (2 players, jump'n'run)
These are not really "play through" but have good replay value imo:
World Racing 2 (like need for speed when it was good, 2 players)
Mashed (like micro machines, 2-4 players)
Wings 2 (2d spaceships in caves, 2-4 players)
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Liero :D
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Wing Commander: Armada

Me and my brother played that for hours upon hours.
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starcontrol 1 and 2
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Sumotori! :D
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Return Fire
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I think this counts, but I loved Champions of Norrath on the PS2.

There's also X-men Legends and a few Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games that are in the same vein; top-down hack'n'slash RPGs.
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Liero/Gusanos, Mortal Kombat(s)
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Gish and basically any MAME game.
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Garden Gnome Carnage.
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Perfect Dark
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Beat Hazard has a decent co-op 2-player mode.

Really, though - all the best stuff here is on consoles. Fighting games, the Super Smash series, New Super Mario Bros Wii, that new Rayman game, etc. My old Dreamcast got a buttload of fun usage on Chu Chu Rocket and Powerstone 2. There's oodles of great stuff on XBLA and PSN these days.
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great suggestions guys!

lost vikings: loved that game. have the cartridge still. lego adventures: playing through those with my girlfriend. excellent. knorke i never played some of these other games though; i'll have to take a swing at them. certainly i like micro machines

i feel like i -have- played wing commander armada, i just can't remember it... are they coming out with another one of those games soon? i could have sworn i heard a rumor

still have the manual for star control 2. those games were money (although it's a shame they didn't have the vs campaign in the second game)

i googled sumotori, the 5th picture is a woody-harrelson balding fat white guy in a sumo suit. i am intrigued and will research further

return fire looks frigging fantastic! how could i have missed this?!

yeah champions of norrath... i frigging loved that game. the sequel was not so hot (too easy, too short) but the original... yeah. fantastic. i didn't mind the xmen games, but norrath was the genre done -right- (hell i'm feeling saucy, i'll just go ahead : it was better than gauntlet legends.)

liero: mentioned twice; i've played soldat, i'm getting this one for sure

gish looks entertaining enough from the funny faces in the screenshots that i should give it a go.

garden gnome carnage made very little sense, but i played it for a while and would play again

ahhh. perfect dark = perfect game. i wish i still had nintendo 64; pretty sure the cartridge is around somewhere

thankyou all for your fantastic suggestions! certainly some gems here

edit: got beat hazard, didn't even realize there was a two player mode!
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Wing Commander Armada is a really old attempt at making a game that was a cross between Star Control 1 and Wing Commander... with *very* mixed success.
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PicassoCT wrote:Return Fire
Shame the second one lost all the charm the first had
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There was no second one. There never has been.
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