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The first video games tended to be single player and in the very early days often text based.
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That is mostly a reflection of the technical challenges involved in making almost any game work in the new digital environment and on the available hardware.
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1636982329198{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”]And yet, those first early games soon made their way into arcades, where much of the pleasure for a player was to test their own skill against others and to see how they appeared on a ranking of points or other measures of skill.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column smallbbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1637325220759{margin-top:0px!important;}” mediumbbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1637325220760{margin-top:0px!important;}” offset=”vc_col-lg-6″ largebbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1637325220760{margin-top:0px!important;}”][vc_single_image image=”74″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”center” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1636846134451{padding-top: 93px !important;padding-bottom: 93px !important;}” background_color=”#ff4062″ z_index=”” smallbbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1636846134452{padding-right:10px!important;padding-left:10px!important;}” mediumbbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1636846134452{padding-right:15%!important;padding-left:15%!important;}” largebbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1636846134453{padding-right:10%!important;padding-left:10%!important;}” x_largebbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1636846134453{padding-right:10%!important;padding-left:10%!important;}” desktopbbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1636846134453{padding-right:24%!important;padding-left:24%!important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]
The pride of being on the leaderboard became a driving factor in play – as well as the pleasure of the game itself, and the social experience of playing alongside friends.
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Yet even the very earliest of home video games – the table-tennis game Pong – was envisioned as multiplayer, where two players competed against one another.
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ARCADE GAMES
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1980 – precursor to multiplayer
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It wasn’t until the late 1980s that it became possible to connect groups of people for
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1636984504272{margin-top: 25px !important;}”]game-playing – the precursor to the massive multiplayer games of the late 90s and – of course – to the eventual rise of e-sports with the first massive tournaments established in South Korea at the turn of millennium.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” smallbbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1636986320037{margin-top:96px!important;}” mediumbbresponsive=”.bb_custom_1636986320037{margin-top:126px!important;}” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]
the biggest trend
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royale style
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In 2017, Player Unknown created a concept in which 100 people drop onto an island to scavenge for food, weapons and supplies – the last player standing won.
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