Playing games with my sister's kids has generally been a great experience. I have many wonderful memories of times gaming with them and I want to list some of the games we've played together here for posterity.
Note, my nephew is the one more interested in games so the vast majority of these have been played mostly or exclusively with him.
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Some of these games aren't necessarily co-op or multiplayer, but we still have managed to have some fun playing them together. For a while this game was GREAT. Until it reached a point where my niece and nephew had no interest in actually doing anything other than driving vehicles around the levels. Then it was HELL watching them do that for hours and hours waiting for them to leave so I could actually play the missions myself because they are GREAT.
After a bumpy start where we clumsily made our way through the super early bits this really started to pick up steam. We're now playing more action focused missions and it's a lot of fun. Plus the leveling up and getting new guns seems like it will really help keep it from getting stale. But things aren't as great when we have to do something talky or mess with the menus, the UI is atrocious when playing split screen. Getting lost because we can't make out the map well is a recurring issue.
Wii Sports and Wii Sports resort have been the source of some high quality family fun. Bowling was the kids go to for the original game.
Sword fighting was the new hotness. Otherwise it was more Wii Sports, which is fine by me. Can't go wrong with bowling or golf.
I had played this game on my own around the time it was first released, but a few years had passed before I started playing through it again with my nephew so working through the puzzles with him was fun and I didn't just know all the solutions off the top of my head. I believe there is a very minimal actual co-op mode where the other players can use a controller and point at stuff, but mostly I handled the controls and would ask what he thinks we should do so I wasn't solving them on my own. He would take over for some of the motion control bits if they weren't overly complicated or specific. Played that way this was a surprisingly good experience.
Rabbids is another game that does actually have a minimal co-op mode where the second player can shoot rabbids at enemies, but again we haven't messed around with it much. Instead we go for the pass and play style. Of all our pass and play games this is one of the more challenging for my nephew to play. But still the rabbids are funny enough that he enjoys it and we've gone back to it over and over again.
My nephew and I played through the campaign on normal, which ended up being far too easy for me to really get any challenge out of it but still it was an enjoyable experience.
The versus mode is quite fun in short but hilarious bursts. Turn bombs up all the way to 99 and then it's not super skill based so I'm not just stomping him all the time. Co-op is trickier, though we've had some good times and surprisingly successful runs with it. But even so we usually end up going with the versus when we fire this up.
Another one where I handled the controls most of the time as he watched and helped me with puzzles and stuff. I would let him take over or mess around when things weren't too rough. We both enjoyed it quite a bit, and made it all the way up to the end.
This game's alright but my nephew just wants to play it over and over. Sometimes zombies, sometimes versus 1 on 1. Sometimes versus with bots. I try to make the best of it but sometimes I'm just internally hoping the disc catches on fire so I don't have to play against him in a one on one sniper battle again. Doesn't help that I suck with sniper rifles so bad that he'll eventually beat me, but he's not good enough to beat me in a timely fashion. Last time we played 1v1 though he let me use any weapon I wanted, so I busted out the LMG which is my preferred weapon in these sorts of games, and I stomped him quite decidedly. For the kill that ended the match I blindly through a sticky grenade across the level and it went through a window and stuck him as he was running down some stairs. I stood up and loudly taunted him. His response was to act super nonchalant as he walked over to the 360 and turned it off with his foot, then quietly march up the stairs as if nothing had happened. I'm supposedly an adult.