8 Retro Mechanics We Need In Modern Video Games
4. Split-Screen Multiplayer
Who among us hasn't got childhood memories of playing split-screen couch co-op with a bunch of friends?
Getting together to play, say, GoldenEye 007, arguing over whether Oddjob is fair game, and pretending you're not looking at each other's screens - it was absolute bliss.
But with online multiplayer becoming immensely popular by the mid 2000s, developers began to decrease their support for local multiplayer options, to the extent that it's basically a rarity nowadays, even an outright novelty when it is occasionally included.
It also doesn't help that, in the ever ongoing performance arms race, split-screen multiplayer is incredibly hardware intensive, requiring the system to run multiple versions of the same level in tandem, as so often causes massively framerate drops.
Even so, for those who still regularly meet up with their friends to play games in person, a slightly choppy framerate every now and then is a small price to pay for easily booting up a game and playing together on a single piece of hardware.