Multiplayer Gaming: Premise

In the many years of gaming, multiplayer and single player gaming has almost split into 2 completely different areas. Game developers nowadays either create a single player game, multiplayer, or take the time to create both. It is not known exactly which game was the first multiplayer game created. An early example of a multiplayer game that can be used is Pong. Whoever lasts the longest hitting the pong ball back and forth wins. Pong simply set up a way for 2 people to compete with each other, which is the basis of what multiplayer gaming is.

Fast forward from the what i'll call the "pre-historic gaming era," into the 90's, where gaming systems became huge compared to arcade games. Multiplayer games began to expand into a bevy of different areas. People not only competed against each other, but began to play together as teams. Systems from Playstation, Nintendo, and Sega would each create multiplayer games that would change the way gamers play forever. Improved graphics and faster processors allow gamers to experience games in a way never seen before. 3D gaming has allowed players to put themselves inside a game world. A great example of a revolutionary multiplayer game is 007 Golden Eye. I remember as a child playing 007 multiplayer. (Yes it was T for teens and I was about 5 or 6 when I played, but this was the 90's.) In Golden Eye, split screen mode was huge, the use of split screen would become major for multiplayer gaming. In the coming weeks, this blog will entail examples of some games that revolutionized the multiplayer world and also explain the impact of certain features in games that have expanded and bettered the multiplayer gaming experience.