• Heavy Metal: Geomatrix
Release Date: 2001
Genre: Arena Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Heavy Metal: Geomatrix is a third-person arena combat game featuring fast movement, weapon pickups, and stage-based encounters.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play through the story mode together, each controlling a character. Players fight enemies cooperatively across stages using weapons and movement abilities.
• The House of the Dead 2
Release Date: 1999
Genre: Light Gun Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - The House of the Dead 2 is an arcade-style light gun shooter featuring scripted levels, branching paths, and enemy encounters.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, each using a light gun or controller cursor. Both players shoot enemies together on the same screen while progressing through the campaign.
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• Power Stone 2
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Arena Fighter / Action
Players: 1–2
• Description - Power Stone 2 is a multiplayer arena action game with interactive stages, item pickups, and boss encounters. While it is primarily known as a versus game, it also includes a cooperative story mode.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play through the story mode together, teaming up against CPU enemies and bosses. Both players share the same arena space and work together through each stage.
• Spawn: In the Demon's Hand
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Arena Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Spawn: In the Demon's Hand is a third-person arena shooter where players fight through enclosed stages using ranged attacks, movement, and character-specific abilities.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play through the story mode together, each controlling a character on the same screen. Both players fight through enemy encounters cooperatively and progress through the campaign side by side.
• Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Action / Beat ’em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles is a side-scrolling and 3D action game where players fight through stages using lightsaber combat, Force abilities, and platforming.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, each controlling a Jedi character. Players fight through the stages together, defeat enemies, and navigate platforming sections cooperatively.
• Street Fighter Alpha 3
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Fighting
Players: 1–2
• Description - Street Fighter Alpha 3 is a 2D fighting game featuring a large roster, multiple fighting styles, and arcade-style match progression.
• Co-op Experience - The game includes a 2-on-1 mode, where two players can team up against a single CPU opponent. Both players control separate fighters and work together within the same match.
• ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth
Release Date: Unreleased
Genre: Action / Platformer
Players: 1–2
• Description - ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth is a third-person action platformer where ToeJam and Earl return to Earth to recover pieces of the Rapmaster Rocket while exploring open levels, collecting presents, and interacting with bizarre characters. Although it officially released on Xbox, an unreleased Dreamcast build also was uploaded to the internet, but never officially released.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, in splitscreen, each controlling either ToeJam or Earl while exploring levels together. Players move through the same open environments, collect presents, complete objectives, and progress cooperatively through the game side by side.
• The Typing of the Dead
Release Date: 2001
Genre: Typing / Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - The Typing of the Dead is a typing-based reinterpretation of The House of the Dead 2, replacing shooting mechanics with keyboard input.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously using two Dreamcast keyboards. Both players type words and phrases to defeat enemies together while progressing through the same campaign.
• Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Vehicular Combat
Players: 1–2
• Description - Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense is a vehicle combat game featuring weapon pickups, destructible environments, and objective-based combat scenarios.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play cooperatively, each controlling their own vehicle. Players work together through missions while fighting enemy vehicles and completing objectives.
• Virtua Cop 2
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Light Gun Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Virtua Cop 2 is an arcade-style light gun shooter featuring stage-based police shootouts, branching action, and enemy encounters presented from a first-person perspective.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, each using a light gun or controller cursor. Both players shoot enemies together on the same screen while progressing through the campaign.
• Under Defeat
Release Date: 2006
Genre: Shoot ’em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Under Defeat is a helicopter-based shoot ’em up featuring angled aiming, large explosions, and military-themed stage design.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, each piloting their own helicopter on the same screen. Both players fight through enemy waves and bosses together while managing movement and directional firing.
• Zero Gunner 2
Release Date: 2001
Genre: Shoot ’em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Zero Gunner 2 is a helicopter-based shoot ’em up featuring free rotation, directional aiming, and stage-based enemy encounters.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, each controlling a helicopter on the same screen. Players fight through the stages together while rotating independently and attacking enemies from different angles.
• Zombie Revenge
Release Date: 1999
Genre: Beat ’em Up / Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Zombie Revenge is a 3D action game that mixes melee combat and shooting as players fight through stages filled with zombies and large boss encounters.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, each controlling a character on the same screen. Players move through stages together, fight enemies cooperatively, and take on bosses side by side.
• The Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norsewest
Release Date: 1997
Genre: Puzzle Platformer
Players: 1–2
• Description - The Lost Vikings 2 is a puzzle platformer built around controlling a team of characters with different abilities. Like the original, the fun comes from figuring out how to use each Viking’s unique skills to get through environmental puzzles and hazards.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can split control of the characters, making the puzzle-solving feel more collaborative than it does alone. Since there are three Vikings total, players still have to swap around and coordinate carefully to get through each level.
• Saturn Bomberman
Release Date: 1997
Genre: Action / Maze
Players: 1–2
• Description - Saturn Bomberman is one of the best entries in the series and is mostly remembered for its massive multiplayer battle mode, but it also includes a full story mode. The visuals are colorful, the pacing is great, and it feels like peak classic Bomberman.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play through the story mode together, clearing enemies, navigating hazards, and taking on bosses.
• Scud: The Disposable Assassin
Release Date: 1997
Genre: Run and Gun / Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Scud: The Disposable Assassin is a strange and stylish action game based on the comic series, mixing side-scrolling run and gun gameplay with occasional on-rails shooting sections. It has a weird comic book aesthetic and feels unlike almost anything else on the system.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play through the game together in standard side-scrolling co-op, but the more unique option is having one player control Scud while the second player uses a light gun to shoot enemies.
• Three Dirty Dwarves
Release Date: 1998
Genre: Beat ’em Up
Players: 1–3
• Description - Three Dirty Dwarves is a bizarre and stylish beat ’em up with a strong cartoon feel, exaggerated humor, and some great animated cutscenes. It has a lot of personality and feels like a forgotten ’90s cartoon brought to life as an arcade brawler.
• Co-op Experience - Up to three players can fight through the game together, which immediately makes it stand out on the Saturn. It is challenging, but one nice mechanic is that players can revive each other by attacking their downed teammates, which helps keep the co-op momentum going.
• Virtua Cop
Release Date: 1995
Genre: Light Gun Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Virtua Cop is one of Sega’s defining arcade light gun games and was an early showcase title for the Saturn. It has clean polygonal visuals, fast pacing, and that classic arcade cop-movie energy that made it such a memorable experience at the time.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can blast through the game together using either light guns or standard controllers. It is much better with light guns.