Last month I asked you all for your favourite couch co-op or competitive multiplayer games – that is, games that you play together in the same room, rather than online. It was the biggest response I’ve ever had to a Pushing Buttons newsletter. Thank you to everyone who sent me their heartwarming memories of MegaDrive sessions accompanied by 90s indie music, pushing siblings into lava, and post-pub Tekken grudge matches. Special shout-outs to the reader who credited playing It Takes Two with helping her execute the “most amicable divorce ever” in real life, and the reader who fell asleep in a bowl of pasta on their 14th birthday because they’d been up all night playing TimeSplitters 2.
You also sent in a wealth of recommendations for modern(ish) split-screen multiplayer games, which I’m delighted to share. Pushing Buttons readers have eclectic taste. I hope you’ll find your next smash-hit party game among them.
