Oktoberfest, Houdini and Hot Wheels all have team play available now. Bascially lets you work together to beat the game and combines scores. You can also play 2 on 1 (or 3 on 1). So if I played my kids, they would get twice as many balls as myself.

All games on the Multimorphic P3 platform.

Alice Cooper has co-op, or 2v2 teams.

I have Alice and didn't know about this. How do you tee it up?

Holding the start button in will activate co-op mode.

Once co-op mode is activated, pressing and holding start again will activate teams mode.

Any pinball game ever made can be coded for co-op. I added co-op to my Data East Jurassic Park remake, just for fun as an idea to make pinball multiplayer more interesting. Players could team up and play a single game together, scoring their own points but with the same objective. This idea was later used by Stern in their TMNT game, I believe.

Co-op is just the start of a new way to enjoy pinball multiplayer with friends and family.

Gottlieb’s Tag Team has a co-op team score when playing in multiplayer.

There was a recent thread asking the same/similar:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/coop-mode

I've not tried coop on the American pins, but both TNA + Mandalorian have it very well integrated.

Mando allows progress to be made on mode progression across players but I believe all players get to play the mini-wizard modes individually. You also share beskar (currency used in the in-game shop/mystery award replacement). It's cool, and my wife and I play coop every time we see a Mando on location.

TNA combines scoring and progress on destroying reactors, but keeps track of how many final-shots each player makes (IE how many reactors you destroy). Works very well and it's fun when you get to steal that last shot, get an easy 'point' and piss off your teammate

I'm a huge fan of co-op in games and really hope to see more of it in the future.

None of my machines have coop but it sounds like a cool feature and I wouldn't mind owning one pinball that has a good coop mode. I'd mainly use it so my wife and son could team up against me.

Coop is cool if you both know how to progress through the game. What it doesn’t solve is the awkward problem of super uneven ball times.

It sucks when friends, kids or the ol’ boot can only keep the ball alive for 10 seconds, and you’re up there for minutes. Or you try cut it shorter by making it look like you’re playing well, but you’re really just hoping for a skillful drain.

We need a co-op handicap, where each player can adjust game settings ike no flipper holding, flipper strength, length of ball save etc.

Just increase the amount of balls on any machine(that you can do that with), and you got co-op mode, no? Or is there something more going on with these co-op modes that I am missing.

I mean sure, I get the appeal of not having to go into the settings all the time and having separate high scores and all that. But if you find the mode that much fun, why limit it to the games that have it inherently designed for.

I'm guessing you're aware, but "Monster Mode" on Mando is almost exactly this but not co-op, Player 1 is on the "Impossible Mode" rules and Players 2-4 are on standard rules. I agree combining this with co-op would be sweet, but it's very fun and I love both the options on Mando as they are.
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The games that do it well (TNA specifically) there's still some competition, but it's much friendlier for the less skilled players than standard score competition. And on Mando, standard modes can't be played more than once per co-op game, but each player gets to play the mini-wizard mode if the team makes it there. All depends on implementation.