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.

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)

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

Spinner and Dial Games

Rotary Joystick Games

Dual Joystick Games

Analog Joystick and Yoke Games

Lightgun Games

2-player game list -- dgame compiled an excellent list of 200 games here.