Party Night: Killing Time & Making Memories with Genesis

[Melf]

Tired of Halo LAN parties? Bored with crushing the competition online? Maxed out your World of Warcraft character? Time then, to kick it old school and show your friends how multi-player was when everyone had to be in the same room! The Genesis holds its own in this department, and staff writer Nick Gibson has gone through its multi-player line up to pick out those that are sure to make your pals respect their roots. Read his full report in our latest feature Party Night: Killing Time & Making Memories with Genesis and get ready to break out that multi-tap!

[capi1010]

Had great times playing chaos and mean bean machine with the entire dorm floor back in the college days. When playstation was ruling, we had the whole floor repping genesis.

[VinnyT]

I'll say more when i'm not using the Wii, but I caught the (old) Dilbert reference.

[Rusty Venture]

I'm kinda surprised that NBA JAM isn't on there.

[Alianger]

Nice article but where's micro machines?

Other good choices:
Super Off-Road
Street Racer
NHL '94-'96
Columns 3 (5 players )
Lost Vikings - nice coop game
Puyo Puyo 2 - better than mean bean machine
Puzzle & Action games - mario party predecessors?

[megabomberman]

Awesome, thats all that can be said, what a beautiful piece, fair enough everyones going to have their floor fillers, instead of mean bean machine mine was columns, etc etc, but this is what the genesis is about, I must now go and seek some of these titles I don't have, great work Nick

[Mr Smith]

We've been doing this for years, we now have to rent a hall for our Mega Drive tournaments. I also have to know why Micro Machines isn't there. That is the essential multi-player Mega Drive game.

[megabomberman]

We've been doing this for years, we now have to rent a hall for our Mega Drive tournaments. I also have to know why Micro Machines isn't there. That is the essential multi-player Mega Drive game.

Them Megadrive championships are class, ye are some bunch of legends, Myself and the lads were thinking about asking ye, can we throw an Irish Megadrive championships into yer site since ye already have the Portagese too, how I don't know?

Just reading through that fantastic, over the top, full of classic crap talking site has inspired us,

Its also the true way megadrive was meant to be played.

[McTom]

I'm missing Micro Machines 2 & NBA Jam: TE.

[Zebbe]

Ofcourse there are missing games in any article of this style, I personally missed the two Puzzle & Action games which are party games, but the feature was very well written and nice to read anyway.

[AEther]

good article, and yes, a Micro Machines game and is 8 player share mode is missing.

after each portuguese mega drive tournament we spend all night playing this type of games. fun for all. XD

[steve]

I agree, nice piece and also, just a great topic to talk about: party games. I plan to do one myself when I get enough time to lay out the scope of the land so to speak

[Genesis Knight]

I left out Puzzle and Action because they're hard-to-find imports (without the stunningly obvious value of Yu Yu); NBA Jam went out the door in favor of the far superior Hangtime. Micro Machines just doesn't thrill like it once did.

EDIT: Props to Vinny T! Ratbert for prime minister of France!

[InternalPrimate]

Awesome article. Nice to see someone touch on the differences between the multi-taps.

A little while back some friends and I got together for some Bomberman (Wii virtual console) and Tecmo Bowl (NES) action. Everyone was going crazy after only a few minutes. Hardly anything comes close to the multiplayer goodness of the 8 and 16-bit days.

[VinnyT]

Yeah, Tubular Luggage would make a great band name.

Still though, this whole thing was written out great! I can understand Micro Machine's being left off though.

But, you forgot the 2p games in Sonic 3, which i've had a storied past of playing, or even something like WWF Raw.