The Neo Geo Metal Slug games were extremely fun to play side by side with a friend. Just note Metal Slug 2 has lag problems due to the engine used, but it was later ported to MS3's engine as Metal Slug X.
Also, most versions of the games on PC come with the ROMs, if you'd rather use your own emulator.
Another set of games we also enjoyed a lot were the River City Girls games. Just had to use health cheats on the SNES game repurposed because it was getting too hard for the time we had. "<.<
Since OP mentioned it, how may of these can do offline co-op? I don't think DRG does, and it's the only one I've done multiplayer on (though it is otherwise a great suggestion)
N+ for the xbone is pretty good. It’s very simple but addictive.
If you can emulate get Mashed: Fully loaded for the PS2
I used to play some monkey game at uni but we were always stoned so I can’t remember exactly. Mebbies it’s something like Monkey ball tennis? There was loads of games within
These are PC games (either co-op adventure or party games) than can be played locally and that I have enjoyed myself (in no particular order). Bold ones are my fav.
Regarding the “Trying to prepare in advance” part. Download a complete SNES Rom collection from archive.org and an installer for SNES9x. The collections are around 1GB and include hundreds of games. Lots of them with Co-Op or two player modes.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - pretty cool as you can play on 1 controller.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (OG) - have awesome memories with it.
Earth Defence Force 4 or 5 - over the top bug extermination and built in split screen even on PC.
Last thing I can recommend is Saints Row 2, 3 and 4 (especially 3) - but you need something like Nucleus to play on the same device.
Seeing as you liked Chaos Theory and look like you have access to a PS2 the co-op campaign in Splinter Cell: Double Agent (OG Xbox/PS2 version developed by Ubisoft Montreal) also tends to get good reviews. I haven’t played it myself though.
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