REMEMBERING THE BEST SEGA GAMES FOR TWO!

Reading the nostalgic comments about today's games, I often came across “playing with a friend”, “playing with my brother”, “playing with a trained parrot”, “playing with a girl, tying her with a wire from a joystick ...”. Ahem ... well, you get the point. When I was small I was a great fan of retro games and now I use emulator to play it. You can find many games and emulators on this source .

The joint passage of this or that 16 or 8-bit game creation is an integral part of the gaming path of any player over 20. Everyone who had a dandy will definitely grin, remembering how he threw his friend into the abyss in one of the parts of Chip and Dale. Or he will tell you by heart the combination of one of the fighters of Mortal Kombat, which he practiced for weeks on the best "wait, let me try something" friend. And I would like to tell or remind you about such games, having devoted most of this issue to games on Sega. Yes, I love her more than Dandy, I can’t help myself.

Anticipating questions: “Will there be Tom and Jerry? Where is Bare Knuckle ?! If there is no Sonic, then dislike and unsubscribe! How did I end up here ?! But what about the Cheburashki ninjas? ”, I propose to immediately decide that this is a list of games that either sunk into my very purr, or about which I really want to tell. And I note that this collection is not the last. But talking about your favorite games for two in the comments is only supported. So run up to the comments as soon as possible ... right after you read to the end.

Snow bros

I will give the honor of opening the cooperative-nostalgic parade to one of my favorite games.

Kneading here is as simple as breaking the crosspiece on a Segov Chinese joystick: there were snowmen brothers and they enjoyed their snowmen life with their princesses. But the evil witch decided to bring confusion into their Swedish family life and stole these same princesses ... yes, you yourself are like in Mario.

And if already at this point you angrily write a comment in order to argue about the plot, then all of the above refers to the Sega version. On the dandy, the tie differs in the fact that the main characters were not always snowmen, but became such because of the curse of the head goddess. And in the screensaver, we zapped extra frames for animation, but we'll get to the differences between 8 and 16 bit versions a little later.

Moving away from the shock after such plot horrors and the appearance of the antagonist, it's time to feed all the enemies with snow and preferably yellow. And such a pleasant gameplay will turn this action into a pleasant pastime for half an hour - an hour.

The game does not even think to overload little gamers or adult nostalgic foreheads like you and me with unnecessary mechanics and prohibitive complexity. On the contrary, you will be very gently and consistently introduced with the necessary information: that you can throw snowballs, that they are effective against enemies, that from the first throw you immobilize them for a while, and having completely packed them in a snow globe, you can push it, enjoying the result in the form of flying enemies. And this very sequence makes you go from the first to the last level, without giving you the opportunity to get bored. The game at the best possible time throws up new enemies to whom you need your own approach. Changes the design of levels, where each new one offers to come up with new tactics for passing. And the rule that every tenth location is a boss gives strength to "no, well, at least get to the boss, see who is there."

Every now and then the drop-down bonuses in the form of jars, where the blue one increases the size of your projectiles, the red one - the speed of movement, and the yellow one - the throwing range of your snowballs, can help you in an unequal battle of snow with mutated koloboks. After collecting the whole cocktail, you turn into a dangerous snow-fighting machine, which would not be able to cope with all the resources of the snow-removing equipment of any of the cities ... if they worked. But the peculiarity of the game is that it can punish both for excessive caution in the form of a pumpkin ghost after the expiration of the given time level, and for excessive inspiration, gladly taking away all the improvements at the first too close acquaintance with the enemy.

The perfect balance appears precisely when playing together. Time is almost always running out. Boss battles are getting easier, although they get a little more chaotic. Yes, and passing the usual levels are becoming more tactical and interesting. For example, one takes on all the red, almost harmless round devils, while the friendship tries to get rid of a couple of the most dangerous representatives of the evil balls.

And you will get the whole range of positive emotions to the same extent both on dendy and sega. Nearly. With a difference of 40 percent. The basic gameplay is the same. The levels are the same. Bosses in the same form and in the same places. Yes, the difference in sound effects, music and graphics has not been canceled. Seg ports are still distinguished by pleasant, albeit in this case, sometimes creepy backdrops, combed effects and smoother animation. But the difference in 20 levels is not a weak setup for fans of the 8-bit Mariobox. In total: 50 levels in the version on Dendy and as much as 70 on Sega.

How much have Nes' members lost? It's hard to say. Let's start with the fact that we have to play during these two dozen locations for the rescued princesses, now saving the snowmen themselves and finally fighting that very evil sorceress, which for some reason was forgotten after the initial cutscene in the cut-off version. But what new levels, what new enemies, what, especially, new bosses are quite different in style from the main part of the game. All these components begin to give off "Japanese", turning a bright fairy tale into a strange anime. And from the appearance of the last boss it becomes both funny and sad. But the underlying ideas, mechanics and basic gameplay are difficult to spoil, so in the end it is perceived as a pleasant addition, now called DLC. So I can recommend the version for Sega a little more persistently, not forgetting to remind you that snowbros'it is much more interesting together.

Tiny Toon Adventures: Acme All-Stars

A collection of sports games featuring the entire Looney Toons lineup, which I spent the most time playing with my friends.

Having satiated enough of the adventure games of the Tiny Toon series, in this game you will find an outlet both as a fan of the blue rabbit and his team, and as a fan of driving a pixel ball across an equally pixelated field. After all, there is nothing better than after the world championship in courtyard football with the boys, to score virtual balls to your opponent.

And if it seems to you that basketball and football are already enough for a good game, then additional modes in the form of obstacle course, bowling and an analogue "hit the mole with a hammer" will try to prove that there is never too much good.

The main feature of the local ball torture is the ability of each of the characters. It was from this game that the ideas for all your Overwatch and Arekhs came from ... It's a joke, of course. Or maybe not ... In general, a team of three players and one goalkeeper must be recruited wisely. And if everything is much easier with the goalkeeper, you can choose anyone, because the fatness of the character does not give any bonuses (but do not take a cat and an ostrich, generally crooked-footed animals), then you will have to experiment with the main heroes of the ball and magic in order to assemble the football and basketball club of your dreams.

Some cartoons are sharpened under the swift and furious attack of the enemy gate / ring, the ability of which can knock out the goalkeeper for a short time or intimidate the basketball hoop before using it. The latter are extremely effective against regular rival gas players, successfully taking their HP bar. Still others are here, so to speak, by acquaintance and they are only suitable for advice to take them to the team of your unsuspecting friend.

I highly recommend it to absolutely everyone, regardless of whether you are a fan of sports games or the word "football" has your first association with beer, chips and TV.

What do you say you like hockey more? For such your words prepared by me, I have another interesting project.

Mutant League Hockey

The personification of the hockey that we would always like to see. Crazy, bloody, sometimes funny and dynamic sports show. Yes, there is also Mutant League Football, where there are more representatives of abelian bestiary games, but for many, the rules of American football are as incomprehensible as the rules of curling, DnD or the principles of increasing the cost of gasoline in Russia. But if you really want to, you can play both the original and the modern remake, released in 2017.

From the outside, the whole action is similar to ordinary hockey, with the slightest exception that you have to play for orcs (they beat painfully and move slowly), robots (they quickly roll on the ice and break just as quickly) and skeletons (are something in between), a playground is not only a place to play, but also a scattering of deadly traps, and the ice cleaner here is a huge slug. Also, a crowd of fans rushes to add spice to the ice battles, now and then throwing edged weapons and hot molotovs on the ice. The first, by the way, is not forbidden to use at any opportunity. And if the game does not go well, then you have the opportunity to bribe the judge, but remember that the opponent is free to do this. In such cases, there is only one way out - to judge the soap, or rather the minced meat, applying all the physical strength of your team to this.

And if sometimes you want to clean the face of your friend's face, then do it better on virtual ice.

Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja

While a reluctance to learn makes modern humans akin to Neanderthals, you and I will travel back to a time when this was the norm. The times when the grass was greener, the dinosaurs were meaner, and the relationship between a man and a woman was much easier, because it was enough only to find a favorite manufacturer of food for saber-toothed tigers and drag them by the hair into their cave.

The plot in the best traditions of the games of those times fits into the initial short intro. From the tribe in which our main characters live, they abduct all individuals of the female or at least remotely effeminate sex. And we, as the only peasants from the tribe, or who is least sorry, have to save all the representatives of prehistoric beauty, cruelly taking revenge on the alien tribe for such a daring act and drastically reducing the population of dinosaurs of all stripes, although they have nothing to do with it.

If I was asked to describe this game in a nutshell, then I would quote the phrase of one cartoon hero: "In and out, adventure for 20 minutes." Seriously, this primal adventure takes an average of 15-20 minutes to complete. During this time, you will have time to try out all throwing weapons: from stone axes to fireballs, fight with many dinosaur bosses, admire colorful levels with nice backdrops and earn a reward from all the young ladies you saved.

Is this game going negative? Absolutely not. With the forks that allow you to complete the game with two almost different sets of levels and amazing replayability, Joe and Mac is almost the best option to hack into something with a friend before an upcoming dinner, going on a visit or leaving home, where you will be scolded, because on the street was already dark. And the elements of rivalry or necessary cohesion make the project a great toy for two.