Best Party Games

Dipkid

The Bishi Bashi games (arcade/ps1) are utterly insane. Worth a checkout..

cyperghost

2 Player games:

Bang Beads - NEOGEO (my favourite!)
Snake Ratlle 'n' Roll - NES/Megadrive/Genesis
Panic Bomber - NEOGEO
Micro Mashines (all parts) SNES/Megadrive/Genesis
NBA JAM - Megadrive/Genesis

3/4 player games

Mega Bomberman - Megadrive/Genesis

mitu

@cyperghost I second the Mega Bomberman recommendation, though I couldn't make it work with 4 controllers on the Megadrive - but worked fine on the Saturn version.
My own recommendation for 2 players: King of Dragons - Neogeo/Arcade.

akafox

Muti-player games (3-8 players) by system:

PSX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Multitap

Turbo-Grafx-16 (US) not PC-Engine..i'll add those...
https://www.giantbomb.com/turbotap/3000-50/

NES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Four_Score

SNES
http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Multitap

Sega Mega Drive
http://www.segaretro.org/4_Way_Play
http://www.segaretro.org/Team_Player

N64
Yes I know that a lot of games are four player..but because I performance I did not add them.

Arcade
I'll get back you you one that one ;)

Others I have missed..add them below :D

@mitu look here for help on that:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6994/problem-with-4-player-megadrive-genesis-with-lr-genesis-plus-gx

pjft

I came here just to second the Bishi Bashi suggestion.
Micro Machines is always a good one as well.
Super Mario War (ports) might be another one.
Worms can be fun as well.

mattrixk

@pjft said in Best Party Games:

Worms can be fun as well.

An upside of Worms is everyone can use a single controller, and it gives other players a chance to drink, eat and trash-talk while awaiting their turn.

DD-Indeed

Some games that come to my mind, that can be played on a single screen with up to 4 players:

-Bomberman-games.
-Crash Bash
-Worms-games
-Hogs Of War (can be played one after another)
-Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (same as above)
-Metal Slug-games
-Rampage-games
-Tekken-games
-Super Mario-games (one after another in 2 Player-mode)

meleu

@sphirst in the useful topics post we have some links that may interest you:

list of games for 4 players - ( @mediamogul posted an extensive list on this topic).
list of games to play with a bunch of friends - nice games if you want to compete with your friends.

Capeman

Nothing like a classic Mame Beat-Em-Up for a party!

Ninja Baseball Batman
Simpsons Arcade
X-MEN (Welcome to DIE!)
Turtles in Time

And if anyone has ever played POY POY on psx, that is an epic party game of throwing logs and rocks at eachother, a true classic!

Korbru

No one has posted a gauntlet yet, so check out all gauntlet games! Old school dungeon crawling at its finest.

pjft

I'm under the impression that the Hyper Sports/Track and Field games also work well in turn-based multiplayer.

hooperre

@dipkid said in Best Party Games:

The Bishi Bashi games (arcade/ps1) are utterly insane. Worth a checkout..

My brother described this as an "aggressively Japanese, effed up, Mario Party" and I think he's dead on hahaha.

soggypete

Great stuff!
Worms is a classic!

Thank you all for the suggestions!
I've just upgraded from a 16GB card to a 64GB so should be able to fit a lot more games on there :)

j.e.f.f

PSX - Crash Team Racing: 4-player Kart racing game that has easily been more fun to play than MarioKart 64. It's a blast with 4 people, especially when people get good and start memorizing the tracks.

Brigane

Trash it for PS1
It's an action game where the 1-4 players have to destroy buildings with gigantic hammers. As a player, you take role of a construction worker who has only one mission: To smash everything to bits and cross the finish line before the opponents. Check it out on youtube it's actually great deal of fun.