An overview of multiplayer gaming

The first multiplayer game can be retraced back [1] to SpaceWars, 1962. It consisted in 2 players on the same machine, controlling a rudimentary 2D output. Three decades later, with the release of Doom in 1993, 4 players could challenge each other in a 3D environment, on a local network. Ten years later, massive multiplayer on-line games gather more than 100 000 simultaneous players in virtual worlds, a new feat possible thanks to the Internet.