Which good classic MP games have you played (and liked ;) )

[Adagio]

Oh yeah... North & South... brings back lot of memories... played this game often against my brother

Though the AI cheated very much, since the AI could walk around with the infantry (or whatever they are called) at the same time they used the cannon and cavalry


Now if this was avaliable for online play

[Boris Godunov]

EDIT: Oops, didn't read...

I played MP games on our old Apple IIe with my brother and some friends. I can't remember the names of most of them, though. There was one where you had several different stages of assaulting some dictator's fortress, and then one where you bombarded each other's castles.

And worms was fun, too!

[JimMac]

My brother and I owned Spectrums, BBC micros then Atari STs before we bought Amigas. (Before progressing to PCs). I remember how the Amiga was much better value for money in the UK than a PC. My first PC was over 4 times the price of my Amiga, and its capabilites and OS (DOS/Win 3.1) were not as good.

Anyway, mulitplayer games we played around that time, in addition to Settlers 2, Lemmings and North and South (which I think may have been one of those quirky french games?) included the original Populous, Powermonger (another Bullfrog game), and History line 1914-18 (had a different title in the US). This was a great split screen multiplayer game which was a predessor of the Battle Isle titles. We also played a game on the Amiga which was a bit like Risk: building up bullet shaped armies and taking over different countries. I think that this was called Global Domination. I know we played others (there was some motor cycle racing game) but I can't remember the names.

I know I still have a perfectly good working Atari ST with a couple of hundred(!) games in my attic. I just cant bring myself to throw it out.

[Static Universe]

Another of my C-64 favorites was Archon. My friend and I went head-to-head everyday afterschool for hours.

I had some great moves for the blue clubber guys. Lure that unicorn into firing and then bash it in the head. Great stuff...

One of these days I'm going to have to figure out how those C-64 emulators work and try some of these games again. It won't be the same without the two player, I would think.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
(...) and then one where you bombarded each other's castles.

Are you talking about Rampart? Great game, spend countless of hours, playing that game, against my friend...



Oh, and I guess I could say the same thing about History Line 1914-1918... really great game... I also liked Battle Isle, but only seldom played that one MP, we prefered HL

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by ADG


Are you talking about Rampart? Great game, spend countless of hours, playing that game, against my friend...

Yup! Man, was that fun.

I think the other game I was talking about was called "Beach Head" or something like that.

[ColdWizard]

there was risk, and a oil drilling game (Black Gold?), a stock market game and balance of power

[CapTVK]

You mean the original "Beach Head"? That didn't have player vs. player options. You probably mean "Beach Head 2". I love the machine gun level where one player controls the machine gun and the other in control of the troops storming it.

Such classic lines of 4-bit digitized speech as....

MEDIC! or I'M HIT!


My personal MP or player vs. player favourites? Command HQ, MULE, IK+, Archon, Star Control 1...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by CapTVK
You mean the original "Beach Head"? That didn't have player vs. player options. You probably mean "Beach Head 2". I love the machine gun level where one player controls the machine gun and the other in control of the troops storming it.

Such classic lines of 4-bit digitized speech as....

MEDIC! or I'M HIT!

That's it! MAN, it was fun. I was always the dictator, and mowing down my brother's grunts was just so cool...

Do you remember a game where you flew an American bomber in the Pacific in WWII, bombing Japanese islands and ships? I can't remember what it was called, but you would strafe the ships, which would get progressively larger the further away from your carrier you went. And on the islands, little men ran between the bunkers, and you had to mow them down with your machine guns...

[DrSpike]

Amiga: Skidmarks, Sensi soccer, PGA tour.

PC: Quake, Civ2MGE, Quake3, Warcraft3.

[Jamski]

How could I have forgotten Sensible Soccer, or even better - Sensible World of Soccer? That was completly bonking mad. It had every proffessional football team in the world. You could play 20 seasons in the Fiji 2nd division if you really wanted. It was everything I wanted in a football game.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Yeah......me and my friends spent many hours arguing over who was the best sensi player, and testing it out.

[Jamski]

The challenge was to beat my brother's Liverpool FC with a team from the Iceland 3rd Division, or something. The names of some of the players... what were they on?

-Jam

[MariOne]

I wasn't online before SMAC, or indeed, I got online BECAUSE of SMAC, which is thus the only online MP I played (and mainly pbem), and to me it's also "good" and already a "CLASSIC" too

Before that I only had played Death Rally on the company's lan where I worked before, against IT lab colleagues when we were supposed to *fixing* PCs.... (hey, that was "performance testing"!!!! )

Oh, and then, I tutored for a while a colleague who had fetched a "copy" of Civ2MGE, always over the company's lan

[RGBVideo]

Rampart and Scorched Earth, I wasted my youth with those games...