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what's up everybody welcome to IGN game
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Wolfenstein we got talking about
ukulele but first let's check in with
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Philadelphia here's my question ah
graffiti oak here's my question what
games were perfect for the college dorm
room I'm 24 went to Penn State and the
games I loved playing between dorm rooms
on a weeknight were FIFA Madden NHL for
the most part or when we were in part
Minh Sui play Halo 3 or fighting games
like Mortal Kombat X or injustice in
your experience what were the games to
be playing in college it was those exact
games NHL Mortal Kombat well haven't
nailed it yeah it was just like 10
generations ago Goldeneye depending on
how old you are yeah well yeah so if
you're as old as I am I entered college
in 1996 and super mario brothers were
just super mario 64 was that was a big
game it actually helped me make friends
in college like that game was a really
big deal at the time it was
groundbreaking it was unbelievable to
people as many people's first experience
into 3d cuz you live in a dorm yeah I
was in the dorm and I was the only one
that had a 64 and Mario 64 like a tiny
television that was up in the top of my
closet yeah so we'd sit like on the
floor on bean bags and play Mario 64 and
everybody would come by your dorm room
and say like can I see the game yeah
yeah exactly I guess it was great for
meeting people in college yeah I would
say that in general the Nintendo 64 was
an awesome system
Oh in college yeah from Goldeneye yeah
they had four players possible war
players yeah you had to buy something
you know that was a nice thing to have
in perfect dark was an even bigger game
with me and my friends so yeah Goldeneye
was yeah I would say like that period
the the 64-bit period was probably the
Golden Age of local co-op because like
the NES had two players but with the n64
made you know four players commonplace
and then when I got the PlayStation 2
there were lots of games that were
really fun to play in dorm rooms just
like Tomb Raider cuz it was like a
really big new 3rd 3d adventure game
that was still seeing very novel to
people at the time was that for the
first Tomb Raider like yeah the first
crowding games like didn't you tell me
that your wife likes to watch you watch
you play gross and evil exactly yeah
yeah that stuff and Tomb Raider we would
like i'll take turns playing you know
play until you die then pass the
controller oh yeah because there were
like save points and and dying you die
over to get the mario 64 is like that
too right yeah yeah it's like if you
failed kicked out of the level if you
start again yeah there are like so many
great couch co-op games even just modern
games that you can get now and like play
in college like for instance Mario Kart
8 deluxe like Mario still Mario Kart
yeah it's always been a classic like
couch co-op game for me I played a ton
of that with my friends like screen and
stuff like that but other fighting games
come to mind to like even something like
injustice to that makes a lot of sense
to great fighting game as well or arms
back to the like Nintendo stuff would be
fun as well arms is not fun I like arms
when I'm playing it next to somebody
like playing it online or fighting it
makes all sense yeah it's just a
single-player but like I'm that's what
I'm thinking is just way more like you
know like when you're next to someone
person gets so much better at arm so
fast I guess that's all fighting games
yeah it's usually not me that person
yeah that's what makes it frustrating it
was obviously many years out of college
but nidhogg I suspect would have been a
good just the way the putt tug and tug
and push and pull of that game feels
like it would have been a great fit for
them you know I played towards the end
of my college days a lot that's still
around a lot as party games and like
Mario Party was so big because Mario
Party is different and like not
encouraging the use of drugs or alcohol
but like when you're drinking and
playing Mario Party
it is more fun right it's like a simple
game plus you're not gonna like get
worse at it because like it doesn't
require it like a fighting game like
injustice yeah it's great focus on the
game and compete but Mario Party like
you can leave you can walk up and leave
and come back and then exactly the game
and so when friends were over and maybe
we were you know drinking and having
pizza and stuff we played Mario Party
because we'd get too mad at each other
when we were playing Mario Kart yeah it
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