Tell us your retro multiplayer stories, anon

>>11801441 (OP)
looks SOVL and kino

The bad player cries about screen watching.

The good player knows the other player is watching and makes some mind play and lays a trap by making the other player think he's going to do one thing when he'll do another.

>>11801441 (OP)
That's what I'm talking about. Enthusiasts implementing grassroots solutions to problems only they care about. Completely admirable.

>>11801441 (OP)
>Duke Nukem 64
>4 player duke match
>Teams of two(cant set this as an option, so just need to know not to shoot your partner, complicated by the fact everyone is Duke)
>Pick a level with lots of secret areas
>Give 5 minutes for teams to assign a "base" in the level and set up trip wire bombs
>One player on a team stays in the base(or moves around wherever)and acts as the target the other team has to kill

Spent many sessions at a friend and his brothers house playing this. Likewise, the fps stages in Banjo-Tooie multiplayer mode, is the secret best shooter on the N64. Also players versus raptors (other players or bots) in Turok Rage Wars and Evolution, resulted in a few night-till-dawn plays.

>Halo on Xbox
>Chillout
>Slayer
>No energy shields
>Pistols only
Yep it's gaming time

>>11801441 (OP)
Mostly splitscreen: died? pass the controller bro

PS1: MOH Underground, Worms Armageddon, Battle Hunter, Syphon Filter 2, Star Wars Demolition, Vigilante8, Star Wars Power Battles, RoadRash, Gran Turismo

PS2: Killzone, Timesplitters FP, NFS and Burnout games, Star Wars Lego, Fight Night 3, Tekken 5, Star Wars EP3, Karkwatch, KoF 06, MC3...

N64 and Gamecube Smash allnighters in 1999~2002.
One night we were playing Melee at a friends' place and at around 6 AM, the older sister of my friend comes home back from the club in her trashy clothes and laughed at us, "you guys seriously stood all night playing video games?? Hahaha".
I didn't care because I knew I was still popular with girls and eventually I got a gf. But damn what a sad bitch.

>>11801441 (OP)
>Mario Party with cousins
>We play the hot potato mini game with the bob-omb
>I get the bomb and just wait until the last moment
>Pass the bomb to little cousin and it explodes
>Lil cousin get super angry, starts yelling and threw the controller to the n64 console.
>He broke both the controller and the console
>My mom and aunts come to see what happened
>I got the blame of course and my aunt told me I am evil and that she will not pay me the N64. My mom agrees.
>Get mad of course but gamecube was almost relased so I just waited for the gamecube

>Years passed and my cousin is now a teenager. He is a whiny asshole of course.
>One day, there was a family gathering on his house.
>My other cousins and me go to his room to spy his computer
>He is a furry, we just laughed.
>After everyone left, I saw in his closet there was a N64 and a SNES.
>No one noticed and I took both.
>The blame was put on some distant cousin from out of the country.

And that's the story of how I got a N64 for free after 5 years. Little shit deserved it.

>>11801441 (OP)
Dominated a SF 2:CE machine when I was 8 years old on a trip to Wal Mart with my mom. I had a line of older kids waiting to beat me. Was dragged away by my mom eventually.
Advance Wars passing the GBA back and forth between me and a few friends during a long spring break road trip.
Playing Rock Band until 6 AM in the morning with some friends. Might be the most raw fun I’ve ever had playing a video game.

>>11801441 (OP)
>Slumber party to play Melee and Halo
>Big brother of the host brings some porn videos
>We all fap together watching porn.

Was that gay? We didn't look at other people's dick, we actually had pillows covering us.

>>11802313
My favorite thing to play at Halo LANs was that level with all the teleporters and rockets only. Eight or more players? Total carnage.

>>11801441 (OP)
>used to have a van
>driving around with a bunch of my friends, like 12 people over packed in the back
>typical boy bantz to impress the girls
>buddy starts talking shit, 'everyone's talking about how they're the shit in halo 3, I've been a halo master since 1, no one can beat me'
>I start talking shit back swerving through traffic, 'you know I got all the old games, I didn't sell my Xbox like you, let's go back to my house and see what's up'
>shit talk eachother the whole way about who's going to be who's bitch
>everyone packs into a small ass corner of the basement where the couch, TV and 1 chair are
>I get to set the rules because he'll whoop my ass no matter what, his words
>blood gulch, 50 kills, all vehicles, snipers and rocket launchers
>starts even, he's good
>go off script
>we had set the tanks up for cover in the middle of the map
>as soon as I kill him and know he doesn't have a rocket launcher I take both of the scorpions and turn them away from the base he's gonna spawn at
>chess match ensues, I'm not even worried about killing him anymore, just trying to remove the tanks from the equation, keep him from getting the launcher
>get one behind the base, fight back and forth with him for the other one.
>use one tank to somehow get the other tank on top of the base
>get even stupider idea
>take the other tank up the side of the map, spend 5 minutes and a couple deaths getting it stuck inside the tunnel(had no idea it would work)
>it's like 17-29 by now in his favor
>manage to camp my base and take a good lead
>he goes for the launcher, I blast him with the roof tank
>he goes for the tank I drive a warthog over real fast and throw a grenade on there
>we're all laughing our asses off, even him and myself
>we start embracing it though and start letting eachother get kills
>score's like 48-48
>he stretches and yawns, says he tired
>say my back hurts and I can't sit down anymore
>turn the xbox off
>everybody screams at us
It was hilarious.

>>11801441 (OP)
>play goldeneye
>pick oddjob
everytime

>>11805024
It looks like you were the shitty cousin all along. Instead of playing the fucking game, you targeted your cousin just to make fun of him.

>>11805039
Totally gay

>>11805615
I remember Blood Gulch 4 vs 4. Kinda big but it was fun. 3 people in the warthog and 1 being sniper.

>>11805759
Sounds fun but what a douchebag to shut down the game

>>11807056
That’s why you are here and not with actual friends.

I got so pissed off at somebody during multiplayer GoldenEye that I smacked him on top of the head with my controller.

>>11807102
Did he dieded?

>>11801441 (OP)
>michigan, 2004 or so
>high school freshman enrolled in marching band
>every summer, school hosts marching band camp at one of the universities for 2 weeks
>the aging, 80s uni forms with the smell and age of hard, calcified water and dusty coop beds and rooms
>upperclassmen bring their mini-fridges, coolers, and TVs and games
>one of them and their friend brought their XBoxes
>run a LAN wire down the hall
>my first exposure to Halo

>>11807112
He unfortunately passed away :/

>>11801441 (OP)
i vividly remember that at a party we had diddy kong racing and 4 controllers, but 8 players.
so we split in pairs and passed the controller to our partner each race/battle.
fun times.

>>11801441 (OP)
Why do people refuse to acknowledge that screen peeking is a part of the game design? Do people really think developers spent thousands of hours working on a video game and didn't think to design around the fact that everyone can see your screen in split screen? Your location isn't a secret in split screen games, and its not suppose to be. Screen peeking makes the games more aggressive and by extension more intense.

>>11807665
>justifying cheating this hard
pathetic

>>11805039
Where did you coom? In tissues, in your pants?

>>11807665
Show the class one scrap of evidence of this from a developer from this era.

I was dubbed "pigskin" by my friend group because I was the only one without blisters on my palms from Mario Party.

>>11801441 (OP)
Nobody I knew ever did this. This is retarded as fuck.

>>11801441 (OP)
>modern flat monitor
Yeah, they're doing this for the photo.

>retro multiplayer stories
Mine reek of burned wire insulation, cigarette smoke and spilled cheap beer.

my first time staying up all night was playing smash 64 with my friends. its insane how that game just never got boring.
i wonder if these experiences even exist for kids today

>>11807665
I'm sure they knew it could and would happen, and of course there's nothing really wrong with it, because even if everybody agreed not to, outside of a setup like OP, you're going to get an inadvertent glance during play.
But also remember that actually making console games NOT split screen required effort, and in the case of some consoles, was impossible. Had the N64 featured console-linking, I wouldn't be surprised if Rare would have programmed a multiplayer mode which took advantage of it, considering they even had a dual controller control scheme. Because even though LAN gameplay would eventually become commonplace, setting up multiplayer environments featuring multiple copies of the game, multiple consoles, multiple TVs, and link cables wasn't exactly normal, especially during the 90s, so it isn't surprising that more developers focused on the more common style of one console, one TV, multiple controllers style of multiplayer

>>11805759
Fake and sad af

>>11807875
In some paper towels.

A friend got addicted to porn and he used to invite us to fap in his room. We took turns, I remember I was weirded out, he left me some video and there was the cam pointing at me. I threw a sock over it and fapped away.