wat was the first multiplayer game?

[marty905]

i was just wondering wat was the first ever multiplayer game???

 

[Shuzer]

Tic tac toe!

 

[Maxi]

The game that's considered the mother of all multiplayer games is Quake. But I dunno what the very first mp game is. Pong?

 

[KagePrototype]

An electronic version of Tic Tac Toe was the first I beleive. Like in 1958 or something.

[EDIT]I googled it, and I can't tell if it was multiplayer or not. I did find out that the second game ever created was called "Tennis For Two", so I guess that could be considered the first multiplayer game.

 

[Shuzer]

An electronic version of Tic Tac Toe was the first I beleive. Like in 1958 or something.

I knew it!

But seriously, I believe his question to be what was the first game to have internet multiplayer

 

[KagePrototype]

Internet multiplayer? He never said internet. :-/

 

[Shuzer]

Internet multiplayer? He never said internet. :-/

Most people call internet multiplayer simply multiplayer these days.. I could be wrong, but I do believe that's what he wanted to know

 

[Jackal hit]

doom? hmm noooo how about something like the original civilization? when was that released? did it have an mp aspect?

 

[Sai]

well, i know doom was one of the first games, if not the first game, to include lan support for deathmatch, so my guess for a first computer mp game to be doom

jackal hit: i don't remember civ having an mp aspect, i know there was an added on mp for civ2 in an expansion but i seriously don't think civ1 had any mp

 

[lans]

Ultima Online, I think.

 

[ShadowFox]

Quake was probably the first game to feature multiplayer as all of us know it now. But Doom did indeed have LAN support.

 

[KagePrototype]

1978
Roy Trubshaw writes the very first MUD in MACRO-10 (the machine code for DEC system-10's). Although originally little more than a series of locations in which you could move and chat, Richard Bartle takes an interest in the project and the game soon has a good combat system. Roughly one year later, Roy and Richard, at Essex University in the UK, are able to connect to ARPANET in the USA to conduct an international, multiplayer game.

No name, but there you go. This was the first game to be played by more than one person over an internet. Here's the first popular one:

1989
James Aspnes writes TinyMUD as a simple, compact multiplayer adventure game and invites fellow CMU graduate students to play on it. TinyMUD remains in use on the Internet to this day.

I beleive the first truely successful one was Doom, thanks to the increasing popularity of the world wide web and John Carmack's god-like network coding.

http://internetgames.about.com/library/weekly/aatimelinea.htm

 

[Sai]

Ultima Online, I think.

that's a definate negative, it was the first mmorpg, but definately not the first mp game

 

[Warbie]

Sink the sausage \o/

Girls and boys have been playing it for millennia.

 

[Gunner]

Doom also had TCP/IP support for MP.

 

[LittleB]

I remember playing Doom deathmatch on LAN. It was the scariest thing I'd ever done on a computer :O

Until I came upon the WWW, that is.

 

[Dr0ndeh]

'marathon' for the mac was the first (before doom)

 

[crabcakes66]

Pong......

 

[Dr. Freeman]

for me it was Doom

 

[Hazar]

definetly pong. It was the first game. It was originally for 2 people with joystick-like things.

 

[Shuzer]

definetly pong. It was the first game. It was originally for 2 people with joystick-like things.

I do believe Pong being the first video game is a common misconception
I could be wrong, anyone who knows for sure feel free to correct me

 

[Prince of China]

For online mutiplayer, it may be Marathon.
For split-screen or something on the same console, it may be Pong.

 

[Hazar]

If not pong, what?

I know what you mean though, I've never heard any real proof, just people saying it is.

 

[Dedalus]

it was probably a MUD of some sort during 70s/80s.

 

[Top Secret]

Though John Carmack wrote the code for Doom MP, a group of two outsiders wrote a stand-alone program that allowed people to join through the internet. The program used the ip and such, it just created a browser for joining games. So if you wanted to play Doom in the middle of the night, you wouldn't have to call your friend Bill, give him your ip, and tell him to join. You would just log onto the program, hit search, find some games, click one, and join. They sent it to id, and that's what they used.

 

[Foxtrot]

I was going to post and say it was probably some MUD. I use to play MUDs all the time....they are so lame.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Tic tac toe!

seriously?

i dunno.. i imagined u playing something like Doom as ur first PC/online game ever.. dunno why.. just had that impression.. weird.

 

[wayne white]

first game was played by al gore...he invented the internet,you know

 

[Kyorisu]

Though John Carmack wrote the code for Doom MP, a group of two outsiders wrote a stand-alone program that allowed people to join through the internet. The program used the ip and such, it just created a browser for joining games. So if you wanted to play Doom in the middle of the night, you wouldn't have to call your friend Bill, give him your ip, and tell him to join. You would just log onto the program, hit search, find some games, click one, and join. They sent it to id, and that's what they used.

Yes a very good prog. The problem was unless you had two phone lines you couldn't call your friend bill to give him your IP (becuase it would change the next time you dialed in)

 

[Pauly]

Most people call internet multiplayer simply multiplayer these days.. I could be wrong, but I do believe that's what he wanted to know

That was what i was thinking as well, i was confused when people said 1958 :\

 

[Harryz]

Unreal Tournament if memory calls right.

 

[Crushenator 500]

Sink the sausage \o/

Girls and boys have been playing it for millennia.

LMFAO !!! am i the only one that noticed this :E

 

[lotusandy]

I remember at College we used to play NCSnipes, an 8 player multiplayer Lan Deathmatch game that ran on a Novell Network.

It really was fun (Back in the day)

I found a Linux port of it, which gives you an idea of what it was like.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~boultonj/snipes.html

edit: oh yeah, it was also written in 1982!

 

[Mr.Reak]

that's a definate negative, it was the first mmorpg, but definately not the first mp game

Actually first MMORPG was Meridian 59, and it was.. *gasp* in 3d!

 

[lotusandy]

!

I found another site!

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3265

This review mentions that "Snipes must also be recognized for its place in history as one of the first network games ever written"

You can also download a copy!


Yay Nostalgia

Edit: Another site!
http://www.textmodegames.com/download/snipes.html

I love this game!

 

[Newbie's Journey]

well the very first online game I have played is red faction

 

[Newbie's Journey]

red faction team death match online is damn fun, u can dig a hole with explosive and hide in there then shoot people

 

[Mac]

doom was my first, man those were the days!

 

[EVIL]

Unreal Tournament if memory calls right.

The question was, "what was the first multiplayer game". not "what was your first multiplayer game"

And if your post was as response to the real question then:


LMAO