Ten games for the whole family
Around one screen with everyone at home, for Thanksgiving
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Super Smash Bros. Melee 2001
Nintendo's characters knock each other off the stage, with no health bar, only a percentage that rises with every hit. Up to four can play, and it is still played at competitive events such as Evo.
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Mario Kart 8 2014
In Nintendo's kart racer, anti gravity sections send the karts up walls and along ceilings, and up to eight can race on one console. No other Switch game has sold more than its Deluxe version.
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Rock Band 2 2008
Up to four people form a band on guitar, bass, drums and vocals, and a player who fails can be saved by another's Overdrive. Its downloadable library grew past 1,400 songs.
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Worms Armageddon 1999
Teams of worms take turns on a destructible 2D board, armed with an arsenal that runs from melee to airstrikes, in Team17's turn based strategy with cartoon humour.
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes 2015
A party game in which one player, the Defuser, sees a bomb that the others cannot, while they read a manual the Defuser cannot.
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Overcooked! 2016
A cooking game in which one to four players run a kitchen together, chopping, cooking, serving and washing up before the orders run out, in kitchens with a pedestrian crossing or moving trucks.
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Lethal League Blaze 2018
A game for up to four players, part fighting game and part ball sport, in which everyone is after one ball in an enclosed arena and every hit makes it faster.
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WarioWare: Smooth Moves 2006
A party game of microgames of about five seconds, each asking you to hold the Wii Remote a different way, upright or with its end against your nose. Up to 12 players can pass one controller around.
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Bomberman '94 1993
A Bomberman of maze levels across six areas, from Jammin' Jungle to the artificial comet of Bagular, where bombs clear creatures in single player and rivals in multiplayer. It introduced the Louies, and the PC Engine version takes five players.
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TowerFall Ascension 2013
Up to four archers fight in small arenas with a few arrows, stomps and dodges, until one is left standing, in a local multiplayer game that also has a solo quest mode.
