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Best 2 player games on GamesNostalgia

This category includes 2 player games, also known as two-player games or multiplayer games for two, game experiences designed specifically for two participants, either with competitive or cooperative gameplay.

The concept of 2 player games has always been present throughout the history of gaming, catering to the desire for friendly rivalry or cooperation between two individuals. These games can encompass a wide range of genres, including sports, strategy, fighting, racing, puzzles, and more. One of the first two-player computer games was Archon: The Light and the Dark, the fantasy board game made by Free Fall. The popular coin-op Bubble Bobble is one of the best examples of cooperative arcade games.

Fighting games are perfect for two players: the 1985 C64 game Kung-Fu: The Way of the Exploding Fist was followed by International Karate + and many other titles. This was before the legendary fighting games Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. If these games focus on the competition between two players, a beat-em-up such as Double Dragon II: The Revenge is based on cooperation, like the shooters Contra and Gunstar Heroes.

Clearly, we can't help but mention sports sims like Kick Off 2 and Sensible Soccer, great titles if you play solo but real masterpieces if you play against a friend. Finally, the Amiga racing game Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge is a fantastic example of a 2-player competitive game based on split-screen.

Contra nesmsx

Contra is a run-and-gun style platformer developed by Konami and published by Erbe Software in 1987. It was released in arcades and on ZX Spectrum and Amstrad PC to start with. The...

Year: 1988 Genre: Shooter

2 players coin-op conversion platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shooter south america

The Settlers dosamiga

The Settlers is a medieval city-building simulation game by Blue Byte Software, first released in 1993 for Commodore Amiga and in 1995 for MS-DOS. In America, it was published as Serf City: Life Is Feudal.

Year: 1993 Genre: Strategy

2 players amiga original game business simulation city building real-time strategy

Sensible World of Soccer 96/97 amiga

Sensible World of Soccer '96/'97 is the fourth and final release of the popular soccer game created by Sensible Software. Released in 1996 for PC and Amiga, it's mostly an updated ...

Year: 1996 Genre: Sports

2 players birds-eye view football multiplayer real-time soccer sport management sports top-down

Deluxe Galaga amiga

Deluxe Galaga is a shareware remake of the famous arcade Galaga for the Amiga. It was created in 1993 by Edgar M. Vigdal (also the author of Deluxe PacMan). The game is an enhan...

Year: 1994 Genre: Arcade

2 players aga amiga original game arcade enhanced remakes shareware shooter top-down

North & South amiga

North & South is an action/strategy game based on the comic books "The Blue Jackets", released in 1989 for Amiga and Atari ST. It was ported later for DOS, ZX Spectrum and other platforms.

Year: 1989 Genre: Strategy

2 players american civil war comics historical battle history strategy war wargame

Sensible Soccer amiga

Sensible Soccer is the first game of the popular series of football sim created by Sensible Software and published by Renegade. With this package, we are publishing the first and original release of SensiSoccer, not the v1.

Year: 1992 Genre: Sports

2 players football multiplayer soccer sports

Sensible World of Soccer 2020 amiga

Sensible World of Soccer 2020 is your dream come true: Sensible Soccer updated with the 2019/2020 season data. The one and only Sensible World of Soccer has updated with all the teams, leagues, and players of the 2019/2020 season.

Year: 2019 Genre: Sports

2 players amiga original game birds-eye view competitive soccer sport management sports

Sensible World of Soccer 95/96 amiga

Sensible World of Soccer 95/96 is an improved version of Sensible World of Soccer, the soccer sim created by Sensible Software. It is considered by many the best game ever created for the Amiga.

Year: 1995 Genre: Sports

2 players football management multiplayer real-time soccer sports

Bubble Bobble amiga

Bubble Bobble is one of the most famous arcades ever created and a personal favorite of GamesNostalgia. This 2D cartoon action platformer designed by Fukio Mitsuji (aka MTJ) was released by Taito initially in 1986.

Year: 1987 Genre: Platformer

2 players arcade clear screen co-op coin-op conversion platformer

Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight amiga

Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight is an action role-playing game developed and published by Mindscape for the Amiga in 1991. O one year later, it was converted to DOS with different sounds and music.

Year: 1991 Genre: Role Playing

2 players action-rpg amiga original game fantasy hack and slash multiplayer

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 genesis

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting game developed and published by Midway Games in 1995. It is an improved and slightly different version of Mortal Kombat 3. The original thi...

Year: 1996 Genre: Brawler

2 players arcade brawler coin-op conversion fighting martial arts motion capture versus violence

Populous dosamiga

Populous is regarded by many as the first 'god' game, developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts in 1989. The game was designed by Peter Molyneux, with Bullfrog creatin...

Year: 1989 Genre: Strategy

2 players amiga original game business simulation god game management real-time strategy

Oh No! More Lemmings amiga

Oh No! More Lemmings was the first sequel to Lemmings. It was both released as an expansion and a standalone game in 1991 for the Amiga, Atari ST, DOS and other platforms. As you...

Year: 1991 Genre: Puzzler

2 players puzzle strategy puzzler real-time

Pang amiga

Pang, also known as Buster Bros in the US or Pomping World in Japan, is a 2d platformer arcade created by Mitchell Corporation in 1989. The goal is to destroy balloons that bounce ...

Year: 1990 Genre: Arcade

2 players arcade co-op coin-op conversion