6th August 2003, 5:21 PM
I SO miss co-op multiplayer! It's only in FPS games any more these days, and that SUCKS! I LOVED playing games like Battletoads with siblings and friends. And, where did the alternating multiplayer of platformers go? That's always fun too. It's like single player/multiplayer, and I don't care if they didn't think it was fun, I did! SMB3 did it best though, since there was the fun of multiplayer battles between levels. It also had the awesome funosity of forcing you to decide whether you should beat that level just so the other person can nab the powerup in the mushroom house or wait for them to. Sure, while they were playing a level, you weren't, but the interaction aside from that made up for it. SMW even had that interesting life loaning thing about it. Bring that back Nintendo! I certainly hope it's put back into SMB3 in the remake. Otherwise, a whole bunch of mini-games that required two players on the same square will be totally absent!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)