There’s nothing quite like playing N64 games with your friends – the N64 does come with four controller ports after all! It’s even better when you can team up. That’s why we’ve compiled a full list of N64 coop games.

We’ve listed these N64 coop games by the following types:

Campaign N64 coop games

These N64 coop games enable you and at least one other person to team up to play through the story/main mode of a game.

Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.

Each taking on the role of a super-soldier, you and another player can team up to battle bug-like aliens that have invaded the world in splitscreen coop.

Army Men: Air Combat

Two players can battle through Army Men: Air Combat‘s 16 missions, combining their firepower to defeat the Tan Army.

Each player can choose their own helicopter, although there isn’t much of a strategic advantage in each picking a different one. This is a splitscreen mode, and players are not tethered in any way.

BattleTanx: Global Assault

BattleTanx: Global Assault’s action-packed campaign mode – with its heavy emphasis on blowing up enemies, buildings and even famous landmarks – can be enjoyed with another player.

It’s one of the best campaign N64 coop games, and you can even team up against AI opponents in the many versus multiplayer modes.

Bomberman 64: The Second Attack

A second player can assist Bomberman as Pommy, a small Kirby-like creature who can stun enemies and collect items. By collecting food items, it’s possible to evolve Pommy into new forms and give it new abilities.

Pommy can’t partake in boss battles, and so the second player unfortunately has no choice but to sit these out.

Diddy Kong Racing

By default, Diddy Kong Racing isn’t a coop game. However, pop in the cheat code “JOINTVENTURE” and you and a buddy can play through the game’s adventure mode.

You can both compete in all races and challenges, with the exception of boss races. Moreover, only one player can drive around the island at a time.

Duke Nukem 64

Double up on Duke across 30 levels in Duke Nukem 64’s story mode. Players pick up access keys (used to progress within stages) separately from one another, meaning only the owner can open locked doors.

Fighting Force 64

Provided you’ve both got the patience, you and a friend can work your way through Core Design’s painfully sluggish coop beat ’em up.

Gauntlet Legends

Gauntlet Legends is designed first and foremost with multiplayer in mind, making it one of the best N64 coop games.

Up to four players can work through the story together. There are four playable characters (and five hidden characters, which are essentially skins for the standard cast), and you can play as the same character as another player.

All players share a screen and are tethered in terms of movement. You need an N64 Expansion Pak to play with four players.

Goemon’s Great Adventure

The full story mode can be played in two-player coop. After fully completing the game by collecting all 44 Entry Passes, you can play with up to four-players by inserting additional controllers and pressing C-right and Start on them.

Goemon’s Great Adventure’s piggyback mechanic means one player can carry the other on their back through the stages.

The riding player is then able to attack using melee and projectile weapons. Both players are tethered, and can only move a certain distance away from one another.

The game features robot battles that take place from a first-person perspective.

In these instances, one player controls one of the robots from this perspective, while the other commands a robot in the background – this player can only do a few actions (jump, strike and shoot) and move along a limited, fixed path. Pressing R as the primary robot launches a baton, which when lined up correctly allows players to switch perspectives.

Hexen

Up to four players can play through Hexen’s entire campaign mode in splitscreen coop.

There are three different character classes to choose from, each with different strengths and weaknesses, meaning there’s some strategic value in players choosing different characters.

While the game does support four players in coop, Hexen is best enjoyed with two people, due to screen size and technical performance.

Jet Force Gemini

You must unlock coop in Jet Force Gemini by finding Floyd’s three missing parts in the “Bridge” zone of the planet Tawfret.

The second player controls Floyd, a robot that hovers next to the main player. The player controlling Floyd can aim and shoot, but only has one weapon, and is unable to move or take damage.

Knife Edge: Nose Gunner

Team mode allows up to four players to play cooperatively through the game’s story mode.

Knife Edge: Nose Gunner is an on-rails first-person shooter (imagine a light-gun game, but without the light gun!) in which you’re the gunner aboard an automatically piloted ship.

You shoot at enemies by aiming an on-screen cursor and firing, and each player is given one that uniquely shaped and coloured to prevent confusion.

Your primary weapon, the Vulcan Cannon, has unlimited ammo and each player can fire their cannon continuously and independently.

However, all players are in the same ship and, as a result, share the same hit points and special weapons. Also, players are unable to use the same special weapon simultaneously.

Mario Kart 64

Mario Kart 64‘s Grand Prix isn’t strictly designed as a coop experience – each player’s performance is scored individually, and you can very easily attack one another with items.

Nevertheless, you and a friend can choose to team up to secure a podium finish and earn trophies, even if that means one player ultimately sacrificing themselves in the process by staying back and targeting opposing AI racers.

Perfect Dark

Rare’s 2000 first-person shooter is by far one of the most comprehensive N64 coop games.

Taking on the roles of Joanna and Velvet Dark, you and another player team up to unravel and put an end to a conspiracy of intergalactic proportions.

You can both play through 20 of the game’s missions (the bonus mini-mission, “The Duel” cannot be played cooperatively) across all three difficulty settings.

Interestingly, Perfect Dark features a “Counter-Operative” mode, in which one player assumes the role of enemy guards and tries to stop the other player from completing the mission.

Rainbow Six

Join forces with a friend in Rainbow Six, and both become part of an elite counter-terrorism unit. All 12 missions are fully playable in coop, and you can have two more AI team mates as part of your squad.

Rampage: World Tour

Up to three players can take control of troublesome monster trio George, Lizzie and Ralph, and go on an absolute rampage across the world in this 2D side-scrolling smash ’em up.

Rampage 2: Universal Tour

Featuring a similar premise to the first game, Rampage 2: Universal Tour also supports cooperative play for up to three players.

Space Invaders

Two players can battle their way through the game’s campaign (if you can call it that).

Turok: Rage Wars

Turok: Rage Wars’ Two-Player Trials mode is a coop arena deathmatch experience in which both players face off against rival teams of bots and boss characters.

One particular version of the game (NTSC, black cartridge) suffers from a glitch that prevents you from completing one of the coop missions.



Side-mode/mini-game N64 coop games

These games have coop modes that are different from their main story modes.

Perfect Dark

Perfect Dark’s Combat Simulator mode (deathmatch) features challenges – 30 scenarios in which you and up to three other players are pitted against AI-controlled simulants.

Completing theses challenges unlocks new features, weapons, maps and options in Perfect Dark’s deathmatch multiplayer.

StarCraft 64

Unusually for a real-time strategy game, StarCraft 64 features splitscreen multiplayer for up to two players.

You can choose to have your own armies, but sharing a base, units and resources is where the real coop experience is at!

Vigilante 8

Indulge in deadly vehicular combat with a friend at your side. Both players must survive to win, so you really need to look out for one another.

Vigilante 8 2nd Offense

This sequel offers a similar mode to the first game, albeit with different locations and vehicles.



N64 games in which you can team up against AI bots in multiplayer

007 The World Is Not Enough

All Star Tennis ’99

BattleTanx

BattleTanx: Global Assault

Bomberman 64

Conker’s Bad Fur Day

Let’s Smash Tennis

Mario Tennis

Perfect Dark

Pokémon Stadium

Pokémon Stadium 2

Super Bowling

Super Smash Bros.

Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion

Turok: Rage Wars

Worms Armageddon

Xena: Warrior Princess – The Talisman of Fate

American football N64 coop games

Unless otherwise specified, the following American football N64 coop games enable up to four people to play cooperatively through the season/play-off modes:

Madden Football 64

Madden NFL 99

Madden NFL 2000

Madden NFL 2001

Madden NFL 2002

NFL Blitz 2000 (up to two players, arcade mode only)

NFL Blitz 2001 (up to two players)

NFL Blitz Special Edition (up to two players)

NFL Quarterback Club ’98

NFL Quarterback Club ’99

NFL Quarterback Club 2000

NFL QB Club 2001.

Basketball N64 coop games

Unless otherwise specified, the following basketball N64 coop games enable up to four people to play cooperatively through the season/play-off modes:

Kobe Bryant’s NBA Courtside

NBA Courtside 2: Featuring Kobe Bryant

NBA Hangtime (up to two players, arcade mode only)

NBA In The Zone ’98

NBA In The Zone ’99

NBA In The Zone 2000

NBA Jam ’99

NBA Jam 2000

NBA Live 99

NBA Live 2000

NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC (up to two players, arcade mode only)

Football (soccer) N64 coop games

Unless otherwise specified, the following football N64 coop games enable up to four people to play cooperatively through the season/league modes, as well as friendly/open matches:

FIFA ’99

FIFA: Road to World Cup 98

FIFA Soccer 64

International Superstar Soccer 64

International Superstar Soccer ’98

International Superstar Soccer 2000

Michael Owen’s WLS 2000 / Mia Hamm 64 Soccer / RTL World League Soccer 2000 / Telefoot Soccer 2000 (up to two players only).

World Cup 98

Ice hockey N64 coop games

Unless otherwise specified, the following ice hockey N64 coop games enable up to four people to play cooperatively through the season/league modes:

NHL 99

NHL Blades of Steel ’99

NHL Breakaway ’98

NHL Breakaway ’99

Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey (up to two players, arcade mode only)

Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey ’98 (arcade mode only)

Wrestling N64 coop games

Up to two players can play cooperatively through the career/championship modes in:

ECW Hardcore Revolution

WCW/nWo Revenge

WWF Attitude

The following N64 wrestling games offer two-player cooperative play, but only in exhibition/side modes:

WCW Mayhem (“Main Event” tag-team mode only)

WCW vs. nWo: World Tour (exhibition only)

WWF No Mercy (Exhibition mode tag match only)

WWF War Zone (tag team and cooperative modes only)

WWF WrestleMania 2000 (Exhibition mode tag match only).

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