What are your fondest local multiplayer memories?

[Johnw1104]

My first memories are of playing TMNT II and Contra on my cousin's Nintendo, which (along with all three Super Mario games) just blew my mind.

Otherwise, Road Rash II/NBA Jam/Toejam & Earl/Streets of Rage/Golden Axe on the genesis were a lot of fun, and of course there was perhaps the best local multiplayer system ever in the form of the N64. Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, Mario Party...

and of course the memory of three friends of mine and I lying on our stomachs with our faces perhaps one foot from my old TV (the screen was about 12 inches by 12 inches) playing four person Goldeneye (so that screen that was almost the exact size of an Ipad2 was further split into four) is probably about the best memory I have haha, we somehow could see the game just fine and I feel I can safely blame that for at least some of the vision problems I'm beginning to have.

Otherwise, all the people that would come to our dorm room (sometimes upwards of 12 in a tiny room) to play games like Wii Sports and CoD 2/3/4 (3 actually allowed multiple local players online, was pretty cool) was just a ton of fun and something I like to think back on.

These days it seems almost dead outside of the Wii U. It seems like that focus may be holding Nintendo back, but I'm glad someone is keeping it alive.