How Did Online Multiplayer Games Started ?

Till past few decades, multiplayer gaming was simply a "+1" for each game that supported such a gameplay mode; so apart from that, almost no one cared whether or not the title he wanted to buy supported a multiplayer mode.

Several years have passed since then. Things change as time passes; as time passes, trends of the past become, as the definition indicates, something that belongs to the past. Nowadays, it's almost unthinkable for a new game to not include some sort of multiplayer mode. Developers will introduce multiplayer elements in any way they can; after all, multiplayer gaming is the hottest gaming trend right now, so why shouldn't they? Let's take a look at how it all started.

Even though it was so many other multiplayer games available at the time, the real heat began when id software released the blockbuster title DOOM in the third quarter of 1993. Doom was an innovative first-person shooter that shook the entire gaming industry. Never before had the gaming community seen such a realistic gaming environment and advanced multiplayer gameplay. DOOM was a true revolution, but it was only the beginning! In the years since, id software has released numerous sequels to the title, all of which have been a huge success.

Multiplayer gaming became widely attractive as time passed. Quake was released in 1996 by the same developers who created DOOM. Only a year later, Quake II shook the entire gaming world for the second time; the time for hardware accelerated graphics processing had arrived, and Quake II was the only FPS multiplayer game at the time. Millions of gamers began to play Quake II online, and a huge number of multiplayer MODs (modifications to the original game rules) were released.

Finally, Valve's Half-Life is one of the final milestones in online gaming. This is most likely the most popular and successful game of the last decade; in fact, millions of fans play its extremely popular MODs (Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, and so on) at any given time, even now !

After those fantastic games, there are currently a huge amount of blockbuster releases that boast an intense multiplayer experience. Every day, new multiplayer games are produced, although at the present, Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, Lineage, Warcraft 3, WoW, DOOM 3, Quake IV, and other titles are the most popular.

At this time now popular multiplayer online games are BGMI, Minecraft, Apex Legends, Call of Duty , counter Strike , etc.