Networking and Online Games: Understanding and Engineering Multiplayer
10 Networking and Online Games: Understanding and Engineering Multiplayer Internet Games Network Terminal Terminal Terminal Server Figure 2.7 Basic client server topology used by early MUD games Figure 2.8 Pong, one of the best known of the early multiplayer games. Reproduced by permission of William Hunter. seeing Spacewar as fun, Nolan saw Spacewar as having economic potential. So in 1972, he formed Atari, a company dedicated to producing video arcade games. One of the earliest games Atari produced was known as Pong, an arcade-friendly version of Hinginbotham s Tennis for Two. Pong was the first big commercially successful video game, while also being a multiplayer game (Figure 2.8). The 1970s saw a tremendous growth in computer games, with video arcades gaining widespread popularity, and with them, new styles of multiplayer action. In 1978, Atari developed Football for video arcades, a game based on American football (not to be confused with European football, also known as Soccer in places such as America and Australia), and rendered with simple X s and O s. Atari Football featured addictive multi- player game play, initially for two players and later for four players (Figure 2.9). Despite the crash in computer games in the early 1980s, Atari released Guantlet, an innovative dungeon crawl for up to four players simultaneously (Figure 2.10).
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