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Best console multiplayer game ever?

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Best multiplayer console game: "Combat" on Atari 2600 is an old favorite, more modern would be Mortal Kombat & Mortal Kombat 2.

For FPS type games the PC is so much better then any console. I spent days and days of playing MK and MK2 on the Sega Genesis back when they were the "in games."
 
Super Smash Bros. Melee. The closest thing to perfection I have ever seen in a game. It is still just as fun now as it was from day one.
 
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Super Smash Bros. Melee. The closest thing to perfection I have ever seen in a game. It is still just as fun now as it was from day one.
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I donno why, I just couldnt ever get into melee. They changed around all the characters, made the game way too flashy and complex. The thing I loved about the original was the simplicity, and melee changed that too much for me I think.

Or I could just be a sucker for the classics... 😀
 
The Pong game in Video Olympics for the Atari 2600.

We hosted a LAN party a month or two back, and actually ran a pong tourney. As a joke. Boy were we wrong. This was the most widely entered (the rest of the LAN *SHUT DOWN*), most hotly contested (there wasn't a single person there who wasn't hot-dogging or screaming at their opponent) game of the day. And some of the matches were truly epic.

The Pong tourney, whether or not we have actual consoles at our future events, will be a PERMANENT fixture. There's just something about someone screaming "THIS IS MY CHILDHOOOOOOOOOOOOD!" at the top of their lungs as the match is tied up at 20-20, and 7ft long paddles float across a massive projection screen, a basketball-sized ball bouncing between them, accelerating with every move, the assembled crowd of 30 picking sides and cheering the players on.

And then there are the people who never played pong before. Like my girlfriend. Before the tourney, I sat her down at that console and taught her everything I knew. She learned quickly. It was one of those truly special moments where it's as though you're passing something special, and exclusive on to the next generation. And then to watch her chew through the bracket, all the way to semi-finals (I had already secured myself a seat i nthe finals) was incredible. Just when it looked as though we were going to be seeing a battle of student vs. teacher, ninja vs. master, her opponent staged an amazing come-from-behind victory - a move he repeated on me in the next match. Such is the way of pong.
 
Originally posted by: 733SHiFTY
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Super Smash Bros. Melee. The closest thing to perfection I have ever seen in a game. It is still just as fun now as it was from day one.
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I donno why, I just couldnt ever get into melee. They changed around all the characters, made the game way too flashy and complex. The thing I loved about the original was the simplicity, and melee changed that too much for me I think.

Or I could just be a sucker for the classics... 😀
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Although I usually appeal to tradition (damn logical fallacy), I really have to admit that SSBM was a great game and a great sequel. Added more depth to the game.

Oh yeah, Mario Tennis too (original one 😀).
 
Originally posted by: 733SHiFTY
Originally posted by: dguy6789
Super Smash Bros. Melee. The closest thing to perfection I have ever seen in a game. It is still just as fun now as it was from day one.
Click to expand...

I donno why, I just couldnt ever get into melee. They changed around all the characters, made the game way too flashy and complex. The thing I loved about the original was the simplicity, and melee changed that too much for me I think.

Or I could just be a sucker for the classics... 😀
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I suppose it does help if your life long best friend and you are very seriously competitive in the game 😉 Our current skills are so far beyond anything I ever thought could be achieved in that game(Fighting vs three level 9 computers all on a team is next to nothing for us). Yet we still keep trying to out do each other. Moves have been learned long ago now. It is merely us improving on the technique.
 
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MvC2 for dreamcast ftw though


damnit i can't remember the name of that game for the original nintendo... the one that's like raiden except with a tank, you pick up weapons, you move through levels, gawwwd that game was so fun
 
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