Old School Beat 'Em Ups are my go-to games when there are a couple of people over and we want to play a game. They are simple enough that
everyone can play them, but complex enough that you still need to know enemy patterns in order to do well at them.

I doubt I would have purchased it, though -- I got it free with PS+, which is the only reason I played it at all. I had a lot of fun with it, but it's definitely the kind of game that I can only get into when there's someone else playing with me in the same room. Otherwise, I get bored of it pretty quickly.
Also, those games are
hard. Fuck.
