Calling Double Dragon the best video game ever would seem like a stretch to most gamers raised on Mario and
Link, but in the context of social gaming and cooperative gameplay, it's what really started the ball rolling for
everyone who would ever grow tired of the quintessential multiplayer arcade (and now console or PC-based)
deathmatch.
In the issue of The Escapist dedicated to different generations of gamers, one writer and his
13-year-old niece challenged the
generational gap between the old-school game snobs who grew up with the industry and the whippersnappers born in
the '90s who don't know how games used to be, with gamers bonding over a common purpose in the arcades of yore.
They also co-wrote a separate piece recommending games to be shared and cherished by members of the different generations as they
play them together, including Bubble Bobble, Final Fight, Tetris, DDR, and
EyeToy Play, as well as single-player games like The Sims 2. We just want to know how Streets of
Rage fell into the cracks in this piece. What co-op games best bring the generations together in your personal
experience?
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