Multi-Player Games
These gamelists include many of the multi-player (simultaneous) games in MAME.
You may want to check for games like Hard Dunk, a 6-player game that works well on a 4-player panel.
2-player games are not included here because that list would be way too long.
Contents
3-player games
- Most use an 8-way joystick and 2 buttons, except as noted below.
Alien Storm (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
Alien vs. Predator (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
Armored Warriors (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
Battle Toads
Brute Force
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Combatribes, The
Dark Adventure (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Double Dragon 3 - The Rosetta Stone (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
Judge Dredd -- 1993 prototype (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Knights of the Round
Mercs
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Pig Out: Dine Like a Swine
Pit Fighter (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
Power Drive (4 buttons per player)
Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
Rampage
Rampage World Tour (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
Senjou no Ookami II
Star Guards (two 8-way joysticks per player)
Undercover Cops
Violent Storm
Wheel Of Fortune (1 button per player and a shared spinner -- can be played with joystick) NOTE: The original game used a spinner, but if you use your joystick to select "spin wheel" and wait 5 seconds, the game will spin the wheel for you.
Xenophobe (8-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
3-player games with specialized controls
Crypt Killer (light gun and 2 buttons per player)
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat (Steering wheel and 2 buttons per player)
Hot Rod (Steering wheel and Pedal per player)
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road (Steering wheel and Pedal per player)
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off-Road Track-Pak (Steering wheel and Pedal per player)
Rampart (trackball and 2 buttons per player)
Super Sprint (Steering wheel and Pedal per player)
Wheel Of Fortune (1 button per player and a shared spinner -- can be played with joystick -- see above)
4-Player games
- Most use 8-way joysticks and 3 pushbuttons, except as noted below.
2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge a.k.a. NHL Open Ice
Arabian Fight (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Arabian Magic
Barricade (4 buttons or 1 joystick per player)
Battle Circuit (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Blazing Tornado (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Bomber Man World (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Bucky O'Hare
Captain America and the Avengers (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Captain Commando (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Checkmate (8-way joystick per player)
Comotion (4-way joystick per player)
Cops'n Robbers (2-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Crime Fighters (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Desert Assault (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Dunk Mania
Dynablaster (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Euro Champ '92 (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Escape Kids (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Exvania
Face Off (8-way joystick and 1 button per player)
Football Champ (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Gauntlet (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Gauntlet II (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
GI Joe
Gladiator, The (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
Growl
Hat Trick Hero (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Hat Trick Hero '93 (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Hat Trick Hero '94 (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Hat Trick Hero '95 (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Heated Barrel (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
High Impact Football (8-way joystick and 1 button per player)
Hit Me (3 buttons per player)
Hit the Ice (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Hook (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Hyper Sports Special (3 buttons per player)
John Elway's Team Quarterback (8-way joystick and 1 button per player, 2 analog joysticks for passing plays)
Karate Blazers (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Knights of Valour (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Knights of Valor 2 (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Knuckle Heads
Main Event, The (8-way joystick and 1 button per player)
Metamorphic Force (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Muscle Bomber Duo
Mystic Warriors
NBA Hangtime/NBA Maximum Hangtime
NBA Jam
NBA Jam Extreme (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
NBA Play By Play
NBA Showtime/NFL Blitz 2000
NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC (49-way joystick and 3 buttons per player)
NBA Showtime - NBA on NBC [Gold Edition] (49-way joystick and 3 buttons per player) NOTE: This is both a standalone game and part of Midway's Sportstation upgrade from NBA on NBC Gold (which just adds Blitz 2000 Gold to the cab making it a 2 in 1 cabinet.) Not available in MAME at this time.
NFL Blitz
NFL Blitz '99
NFL Blitz 2000 Gold edition
Ninja Baseball Batman (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Ninja Kids, The (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Numan Athletics
Oriental Legend (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Punk Shot (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Quartet (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Rim Rockin' Basketball (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Ring Rage
Run and Gun
Run and Gun 2
Runark (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Rushing Heroes
Sangokushi II -- Asia region version of "Warriors of Fate"
Saturday Night Slam Masters a.k.a. Muscle Bomber: The Body Explosion
Silent Dragon
Slam Dunk
Slam Dunk 2
Snow Bros. 2 - With New Elves (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Spider-man: The Videogame (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Sunset Riders (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Super Cup Finals (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Super High Impact (8-way joystick and 1 button per player)
Tecmo Bowl (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Tournament Cyberball 2072 (8-way joystick and 1 button per player)
Trog (8-way joystick and 1 button per player)
U.S. Championship V'ball (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Vendetta (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Vs. Tennis (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Warriors of Fate
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
World Soccer Finals (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
WWF Wrestlefest (8-way joystick and 2 buttons per player)
X-Men (There are also 2-player and 6-player ROM versions)
4-player games with specialized controls
Atari Football (Trackball per player)
Atari Soccer (Trackball and 2 buttons per player)
Car Polo (Spinner and 3 buttons per player)
John Elway's Team Quarterback (8-way joystick and 1 button per player, 2 analog joysticks for passing plays)
Racin' Force (270 degree steering wheel/potentiometer and 3 buttons per player)
Sprint 4 (Steering wheel, 5 buttons)
TouchDown Fever (8-way optical rotary joystick and 2 buttons per player)
TouchDown Fever 2 (8-way optical rotary joystick and 2 buttons per player)
Tournament Table (Paddle/potentiometer and 1 pushbutton per player)
Warlords (Paddle/potentiometer and 1 pushbutton per player)
6-player games
Hard Dunk (8-way joystick and 4 buttons per player)
X-Men (There are also 2-player and 4-player ROM versions)
6-player games with specialized controls
8-player games
Tank 8 (Double 2-way joysticks per player)
8-player games with specialized controls
Sprint 8 (Steering wheel, 2 buttons)
Other game lists
- 2-player game list -- dgame compiled an excellent list of 200 games here.
- "All Killer, No Filler" game lists -- BadMouth compiled these excellent collections here -- 1. SHMUPS, 2. VS FIGHTERS, 3. SPORTS, 4. PUZZLE, 5. RUN 'N GUN, 6. BEAT 'EM UP/HACK 'N SLASH, 7. PLATFORM, and 8. CLASSICS.
