• Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars
Release Date: 1995
Genre: FMV Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Drug Wars expands the original Crime Patrol formula with new live-action scenarios focused on narcotics investigations and organized crime.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously using separate on-screen cursors. Players cooperate throughout the FMV sequences by shooting enemies and completing missions together.
• The Last Bounty Hunter
Release Date: 1994
Genre: FMV Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - The Last Bounty Hunter is a futuristic FMV shooter that casts players as bounty hunters tracking dangerous criminals across a variety of live-action environments.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously, each controlling their own cursor. Players work together to eliminate targets and survive the game's branching live-action encounters.
• Space Pirates
Release Date: 1994
Genre: FMV Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Space Pirates is a science-fiction FMV shooter where players defend a spaceship from boarding pirates and hostile alien forces.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously using separate on-screen cursors. Players work together to shoot enemies throughout the live-action sequences and defend the ship from attack.
• Raging Blades
Release Date: 2004
Genre: Beat 'em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Raging Blades is a fantasy beat 'em up from Sammy that follows a group of warriors battling through medieval environments filled with monsters, soldiers, and giant bosses. Originally released in arcades, the game features weapon-based combat, branching routes, and multiple playable characters.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign. Players choose from several warriors and fight side-by-side against enemy hordes, collecting weapons and power-ups while working together to clear stages and defeat bosses.
• N2O: Nitrous Oxide
Release Date: 1998
Genre: Shoot 'em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - N2O: Nitrous Oxide is a psychedelic tunnel shooter developed by Gremlin Interactive. Players pilot futuristic spacecraft through abstract 3D environments while battling waves of enemies and bosses. The game is particularly known for its soundtrack by electronic music group The Crystal Method.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign. Each player controls their own ship while flying through the same tunnels, destroying enemy formations, collecting power-ups, and working together to survive increasingly difficult stages and boss encounters.
• Space Invaders: Invasion Day (Space Raiders in Japan)
Release Date: 2002
Genre: Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Space Invaders: Invasion Day is the PAL release of Taito's Space Raiders. Rather than a traditional fixed-screen shooter, the game reimagines Space Invaders as a 3D action shooter viewed from behind the player characters. Players move across the bottom of the screen while fighting waves of advancing aliens, giant creatures, and large bosses inspired by the classic arcade series.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign. Players fight side-by-side on the same screen, controlling separate characters while shooting incoming alien forces and surviving increasingly difficult enemy waves. The game retains the basic concept of Space Invaders but expands it into a cooperative 3D shooter with boss battles and multiple stages.
• Space Raiders
Release Date: 2003
Genre: Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Space Raiders is an updated take on Space Invaders with a behind-the-character camera view. Players move left and right along the bottom of the screen while shooting waves of aliens that advance from the background toward the foreground. The game keeps the basic Space Invaders structure but presents it with 3D visuals, boss fights, and a more action-focused style.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously side by side on the same screen. Each player controls their own character, moves along the same firing line, and shoots incoming alien waves together while avoiding enemy fire and clearing stages cooperatively.
• Machine Hunter
Release Date: 1997
Genre: Shooter
Players: 1–2
• Description - Machine Hunter is a top-down shooter set on a post-apocalyptic Earth overrun by hostile machines. Players battle through futuristic environments while destroying robotic enemies and collecting new weapons and upgrades from defeated foes.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign in splitscreen. Players fight side-by-side against waves of mechanical enemies, collect weapon upgrades independently, and work together to survive increasingly difficult stages and boss encounters.
• Dragon Sisters
Release Date: 2004
Genre: Beat 'em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Dragon Sisters is a 3D beat 'em up set 100 years after a devastating war. Players control Kiku and Hanna, two cyborg soldiers tasked with defending the Empire from an invasion by the neighboring East Asian state. Across ten stages, players battle enemy forces, earn experience from defeated foes, and upgrade attributes such as strength, speed, and health. Not released in the US, but PAL version does have english.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign. Players control Kiku and Hanna as they fight side-by-side through 3D stages, chaining together attacks and combos while earning upgrade orbs that improve their characters throughout the adventure.
• Firo & Klawd
Release Date: 2001
Genre: Isometric Action Adventure
Players: 1–2
• Description - Firo & Klawd is a PAL-exclusive isometric action adventure game starring Firo, an ape police detective, and Klawd, a cat-for-hire. The duo set out to investigate a counterfeit money operation that is flooding the city with fake dollar bills. The game features isometric exploration, combat, platforming elements, and occasional first-person shooting sequences where players must blast enemies on screen.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the campaign, with one player controlling Firo and the other controlling Klawd. Players work together through the game's isometric levels, battling enemies, collecting items, and progressing through the investigation. The adventure includes branching routes throughout many stages, although these paths eventually reconnect and lead to the same overall progression.
• Sonic Wings Special
Release Date: 1996
Genre: Shoot 'em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Sonic Wings Special is an enhanced PlayStation-exclusive version of Sonic Wings 2 and 3. The game combines stages, characters, and content from both arcade releases while adding new routes, endings, and gameplay features.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire game. Players pilot their own aircraft, collect power-ups independently, and work together to clear branching stages and defeat bosses.
• Sol Divide
Release Date: 1998
Genre: Shoot 'em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Sol Divide is a fantasy-themed shoot 'em up from Psikyo that blends traditional shooter gameplay with magic spells and melee attacks. Players choose from three characters and battle through stages filled with monsters, dragons, and supernatural enemies.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign. Players choose different characters, use unique weapons and spells, and cooperate to defeat enemies and bosses.
• Sexy Parodius
Release Date: 1996
Genre: Shoot 'em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Sexy Parodius is a Japan-exclusive entry in Konami's parody shooter series. Players choose from a cast of bizarre characters and battle through colorful stages filled with references to Gradius, TwinBee, and other Konami franchises.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign. Each player controls their own character, collects power-ups independently, and works together to clear stages and defeat bosses.
• Cho Aniki: Kyuukyoku Muteki Ginga Saikyou Otoko
Release Date: 1995
Genre: Shoot 'em Up
Players: 1–2
• Description - Cho Aniki: Kyuukyoku Muteki Ginga Saikyou Otoko is a Japan-exclusive horizontal shoot 'em up and the first console entry in the long-running Cho Aniki series. The game is known for its bizarre sense of humor, surreal imagery, and bodybuilder-themed characters. Players battle through six stages filled with strange enemies, unusual bosses, and over-the-top visual designs that became the trademark of the series.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the entire campaign. Each player controls their own character and works together to clear stages, collect power-ups, survive enemy attacks, and defeat bosses. Like other games in the series, cooperative play adds even more chaos to the already bizarre on-screen action.
• Blaze & Blade Busters
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Action RPG
Players: 1–4
• Description - Blaze & Blade Busters is a Japan-exclusive spin-off of Blaze & Blade: Eternal Quest. Rather than focusing on a large quest-driven adventure, the game emphasizes fast-paced dungeon crawling, monster battles, character growth, and cooperative multiplayer. Players choose from a variety of fantasy character classes and tackle increasingly difficult stages filled with enemies, traps, and treasure.
• Co-op Experience - Up to four players can play simultaneously using a multitap. Players form a party, battle through dungeons together, collect equipment, level up their characters, and cooperate against large groups of enemies and bosses. The game was released exclusively in Japan and remains one of the few four-player action RPGs available on the original PlayStation.
• Kaettekita Cyborg Kuro-Chan
Release Date: 2002
Genre: Action Platformer
Players: 1–2
• Description - Kaettekita Cyborg Kuro-Chan is a Japan-exclusive action platformer based on the Cyborg Kuro-chan manga and anime series. Players control the cyborg cat Kuro as he battles robotic enemies, navigates platforming stages, and uses a variety of weapons and attacks inspired by the source material.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously through the game's stages. Players work together to defeat enemies, overcome platforming challenges, and progress through the campaign as members of the Kuro-chan cast.
• Magical Tetris Challenge
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Puzzle
Players: 1–2 (Link Cable)
• Description - Magical Tetris Challenge combines classic Tetris gameplay with Disney characters and themed stages. Players can choose from multiple Disney characters while competing or progressing through various puzzle modes.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously using a Game Boy Color Link Cable. Each player needs their own Game Boy Color, a link cable, and a copy of the game. Players can work together in cooperative modes to clear lines and overcome increasingly difficult puzzle challenges.
• Rampage 2: Universal Tour
Release Date: 1999
Genre: Action
Players: 1–2 (Link Cable)
• Description - Rampage 2: Universal Tour is a monster-themed action game where players control giant creatures destroying cities around the world. The game features multiple playable monsters, new power-ups, and larger environments than previous entries.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously using a Game Boy Color Link Cable. Each player needs their own Game Boy Color, a link cable, and a copy of the game. Players rampage through cities together, smashing buildings, defeating military forces, and causing as much destruction as possible.
• Centipede
Release Date: 1999
Genre: Shooter
Players: 1–2 (Link Cable)
• Description - Centipede is an updated version of Atari's arcade shooter featuring both the classic gameplay and a modernized adventure mode. Players battle centipedes, spiders, scorpions, and other insects while navigating increasingly difficult stages.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously using a Game Boy Color Link Cable. Each player needs their own Game Boy Color, a link cable, and a copy of the game. Players work together to eliminate waves of enemies and survive through the game's arcade and adventure modes.
• Vigilante 8
Release Date: 2000
Genre: Vehicular Combat
Players: 1–2 (Link Cable)
• Description - Vigilante 8 brings the vehicle combat series to the Game Boy Color with a top-down perspective. Players select from a roster of armed vehicles and battle across destructible arenas using missiles, machine guns, and special weapons.
• Co-op Experience - Two players can play simultaneously using a Game Boy Color Link Cable. Each player needs their own Game Boy Color, a link cable, and a copy of the game. Players can team up against computer-controlled opponents in cooperative battles.