Is it just me or does Super mario Bros Wii remind you of little big planet?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Alic0004 said:

Wait, how many other four player platformers are there Rubang, in the whole history of gaming? I'm actually interested, because it's not something I can remember playing.

Was there really a four player platformer on the NES, or was it more like a golden axe type of game? (It's a side-scroller but you attack things, have hit points, etc.) I don't see how they could do a four player platformer, where you're basically jumping and racing through levels, with four people on the screen back in the NES days -- four is exponentially so much more hectic, it seems like too much to fit on an old screen.

Of course my NES memory is a little hazy, since I was like five back then. Not everyone has a twenty year gaming memory, you know :)

How many four player platformers are there?  Short answer: not enough!

Let me see....

Cloning Clyde for XBox Live Arcade, 2006.  It has co-op and versus modes.  One of them goes up to 8 players, but I'm not sure which.  I'm assuming it's 4 player co-op or 8 player versus, but I can't find out anywhere.  The videos on YouTube seem to be people speedrunning puzzles by themselves.

I sorted this list ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cooperative_video_games ) by genre and by number of players, and it only listed 2 platformers as having 4 player co-op, but they were Cloning Clyde and LittleBigPlanet.  With A Nightmare on Elm Street that's 3 so far.  Man there's gotta be more!  I refuse to believe that New SMB Wii is going to be the 4th 4 player co-op platformer ever made.  Now I want to try Cloning Clyde too.

If LBP was truly the 3rd one and New SMB Wii is truly the 4th, I really hope those 2 games start a renaissance of the genre or something.

 

And hey, I was 5 back then too!  I was born in 1983.  I really am just that nerdy.  I got most of my NES collection within the last 10 years, at thrift stores, used game stores, eBay, and the swap meet at the awesome Classic Gaming Expo.  I'm just such a nerd that I ended up with hundreds of NES games and tons of peripherals and I enjoy reading tons and tons about the NES and became a sort of NES historian.  In fact, in a community college speech class I actually gave a speech about the history of unlicensed NES games from Tengen to Wisdom Tree.  That was probably my nerdiest day ever.