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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 07:44:56 2020 No.6517058 [Reply] [Original]

Hey guys, I'm looking for nice 4 player games to play with children;
I work in a daycare, and with the covid craze, most board games, and our usual activities are out of the question, so I thought a videogame tournament would be a neat activity. And since all I have is a piece of shit old laptop and crappy usb snes controllers, I've been looking for retro games.
So far I'm thinking about :
-Bomberman (they're loving bomberman world on mame, but I think I'll try one of the more advanced versions, with the bomb kicking and stuff)
-Re-Volt (RC-junior mode works fine for them)
-Micro-Machines 64 (only n64 game that emulates fine on my shitty laptop it seems)

So I'm looking for games that do not contain violent imagery, are easy to pick up and play and play fine with 6 button controllers (not counting select/start)
Is there something akin to "combat" on atari 2600 I could check out ? With 4 player support. I'm thinking some rudimentary deathmatch game would be fun. Or maybe something like scorched earth/death tank ?
Anything fun you recommend ? thanks in advance

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 10:56:30 2020 No.6517307

>>6517058
On the SNES, I recommend Bomberman 5, since it's the most advanced one and has an english translation patch on the romhacking website.

You can also try Top Gear 3000 and Micro Machines 2.

Here's a list of games for the SNES: https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Multitap

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 11:41:52 2020 No.6517401

The only retro games kids play at my house are arcade (mame)
Checkmate, Snow Bros 2, and Trog support 4 players, also several fighters but maybe they're more violent than you want -
Crime Fighters, D. D. Crew, Bucky O'Hare, Spider-Man, The Simpsons, Vendetta, X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 11:55:32 2020 No.6517424

>>6517307
Thanks I'll check out Super Bomberman 5
>>6517401
Checkmate looks real interesting, but I'm afraid the graphics are a little too rudimentary. Any other light cycle style game you might recommend ?
Might check out Trog and Snow Bros. As for fighting games, they already played through both TMNT games as well as the simpsons and they loved them so I'll keep your recs in mind.

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 12:11:57 2020 No.6517441

There's several co-op Bomberman games you could try. There's the earlier Bomberman arcade game (4 players) that came out a year before World (from Irem). There's also Neo Bomberman on Neo Geo (2 players), Staturn Bomberman on Sega Saturn (2 players), and Super Bomberman 1, 3, 4, and 5 (2 players too). You said 4 players, so perhaps the children can take turns with that, but the battle modes are 4 player.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 15:53:07 2020 No.6517778 >>6517441 Co-op games are fine. But to be honest, for the little tournament I have in mind, I'd like to find a few competitive games. Cutthroat but lighthearted, like bomberman or micro machines.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 15:54:49 2020 No.6517785 kys pedo

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 15:56:02 2020 No.6517791 Any Mario Kart after Super Mario Kart fulfills that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 16:15:25 2020 No.6517826 >>6517791 Tried running mario kart 64 on my laptop, ran like shit unfortunately.

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 16:17:25 2020 No.6517828

Here are some lists of 4-player games for SNES and Genesis:
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Multitap
https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?119467-Genesis-Mega-Drive-multiplayer-games

Could help maybe? I dunno. I guess it's mainly sports games? Surely at least a few of those could be appropriate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 16:25:31 2020 No.6517837 You cant swing those lil niggas a real super nintendo? You should stop being poor

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 16:44:00 2020 No.6517857

>>6517837
Job doesnt pay that well, and if I had a better job, I wouldnt even need to get a console to play with them, wouldnt I ?
>>6517828
I'm not sure about sports games, I want games that are fast to play. Kids get bored easy, and I dont want to keep them waiting around, but thanks for the links.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 16:50:10 2020 No.6517867 >>6517058 Sunset Riders, very fun and only about as violent as a western cartoon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 18:26:26 2020 No.6518034 >>6517867 Bury me with my money.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 18:28:44 2020 No.6518036 If you know katakana/memorize the menus beforehand, Battle Cross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h2sv9ESR6w

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Anonymous Sat Jun 13 18:31:32 2020 No.6518045

>>6517058
Mayhap some variety could introduce a time trial test on something like Mega Man.
Mega Man is fairly simple, and people could take turns trying to get through a stage under a certain time limit.
For that, I would recommend Mega Man 1 or 3, as 1 is the simplest of all the games and 3 has a small bit of complexity to go with it, if the kids aren't absolutely retarded

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 13 20:29:18 2020 No.6518286 >>6517826 How about Super Mario Kart (snes), is it not 4 player?

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Anonymous Sun Jun 14 01:56:58 2020 No.6518805

>>6518286
Nope, two players.
>>6518045
That's an interesting idea, but that would mean 1 kid playing while 11 others are sitting twiddling their thumbs, even if the runs are short, having 12 of them go through is going to take some time. Not to mention I'll have to sanitize the controller between every run.
>>6517867
Heh, yeah, sunset riders is pretty fun. Might add that to the games they can play outside of the tournament.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 02:01:07 2020 No.6518814 >>6518036 Looks cute. I'll check it out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 02:51:52 2020 No.6518910 >>6517058 Get Medieval most 2D beat'em all

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 02:53:19 2020 No.6518913 File: 27 KB, 220x312, bomberman64.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] JP-only Bomberman 64 is a classic 2D bomberman with 4 player mode.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 02:59:26 2020 No.6518921 >>6517058 Are the children cute?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 05:24:56 2020 No.6519154 >>6517058 Atomic Bomberman Captain Claw World Rally Fever

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 09:22:19 2020 No.6519526 You can have up to 8 players take turns on a single screen and M+KB on a Worms Armageddon match.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 09:23:30 2020 No.6519528 >>6519526 The issue is that I'd have to sanitize the keyboard and mouse between every turn. It'd be a nightmare.

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Anonymous Sun Jun 14 13:53:13 2020 No.6520102

Tank Force (arcade) has a 4 player version
Escape Kids (Asia, 4 Players), seems to be all English, although I can't see young kids being able to enter their initials before time runs out, not that it's necessary (each player is a different color) or buy a power up, but might be fun anyway - change difficulty to "Most Easy" in BIOS

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 14:52:40 2020 No.6520217 >>6520102 These look super neat, I'll check em out. I'm a bit surprised I can't find a 4 player version of atari 2600 combat/Tank. Seems like a classic that should've been remade/emulated countless times !

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 15:28:17 2020 No.6520294 >>6517058 Try Chu Chu Rocket.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 22:00:56 2020 No.6521365 reported and saged 3

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 22:20:56 2020 No.6521420 >>6517058 Try Exvania by Namco, it's the best Bomberman-like.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 15 04:20:30 2020 No.6522035 >>6517058 Try crash bash for ps1.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 15 07:15:04 2020 No.6522384 reported and saged let me bump off my last remaining comment on this website and then I will stop posting forever

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 15 08:54:08 2020 No.6522503 Rayman legends on pc doesn't need much power.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 15 13:40:12 2020 No.6523001 >>6521420 I'll try it out, I've been checking out atomic bomberman, it's pretty ugly, but easy to set up (number of players, maps etc...) >>6520294 Isnt that a dreamcast exclusive ? >>6522035 Never heard of this one, thanks. I'll see if I can run it.