That’s why in reaction to the live service pushback the last few years I find it hard to develop anything where the multiplayer can’t be enjoyed locally
The Mucro Machines series on Megadrive for me - the J-Cart with built in additional gamepad ports was a genius idea for four player couch play. (Was also partial to a dose of multiplayer Worms)
Ups and downs. Humble brag, but i have more than 3 friends, local is class until you have enough people round that folks are missing out. During the pandemic we all played Mario Kart online and had 8 person cups or 8 man private halo lobbies. Smash and Mario Party are better in person though.
Years ago, a group of friends and I used to gather every other Sunday at a buddy's place and get food and play games. Anywhere between 6 and 10 of us. Tons of fighting game tourneys, co-op FPS sessions, Mario Party.
Mario Party games ending in hurt feelings...the one dude who took Oddjob in Goldeneye 64 then proceeding to be uninvited next session. Can't tell you how many great nights of WCW/NWO revenge and WM2000 we had
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I mean, that we usually had a crate or two of Carling on hand probably helped that, to be fair. I wouldn't really call it 'strategy' by the end😅
the gaming PC at once
The entire family taking turns to play Space Invaders on an Atari VHS.
Have a couple of friends around to play Match Day on a 48K ZX Spectrum.
Years ago, a group of friends and I used to gather every other Sunday at a buddy's place and get food and play games. Anywhere between 6 and 10 of us. Tons of fighting game tourneys, co-op FPS sessions, Mario Party.
Memories.
Halo lan parties. Everybody brought a few Jack's pizzas and a case of mountain dew.
So many hours on that game.