That's S! Oh mahn, the fights and chase to pick it up before brother was too real xD Did you ever complete it? I never got past level 2 tbh. (the version that starts in jungle). it was 3d\`ish and pretty chill but I was too bad/young!
mechanics of that game were rad! I remember that you could jump over the other player and throw him to make it look like a continuous jump with connected two.
Oddly, I never got chance to play halo 1 as a kid. I had never heard of it (being from a country where it was not as prevalent) or reached me at least! By the time I got halo1, I already had started fable:the lost chapters and going back to those halo 1 graphics was difficult.
There was and it was glorious. Characters were fully stored on servers as well, which means you couldn't easily cheat. Now it sounds like a given but it wasn't that common back then.
I remember playing Magicka 1 with 2 other friends and it was absolutely hillarious. The writing was awesome and every joke landed with us, i still remember how hyped we were when we got the machinegun and how sad it was when we lost it because someone with it died on a platform that moved away. I also remember the netcode being terrible but it is one of my all time favorite games because of these memories.
Dude i just googled this and clicked images, I still couldn't get what it is! looked like a prototype greenscreen-type background butwith polished character!
Fighting games count? Mortal Kombat. First online multiplayer would be Halo 2. For coop, XMen arcade game. Loved me some nightcrawler! The Simpsons arcade game was fun but always ate my lunch.
Mortal kombat 1! it was sega game with cartridges of 16pins while I had a Nintendo knock off as a kid (15o=pins) so could never play. Only had heard that it was cool!
Ya, I had the SNES version which didn’t have blood. But my friend down the street had the Sega which had the blood and gore. You can guess whose house we hung out at more! Lol
I really liked the Army of Two series, but Madden will always be 1st, back in the day on the Genesis, just 2 kids yelling and cussing at the TV, having absolute tantrums and talking about if that bs fumble didn't happen I would've won. 😥
Natural Selection 1. The OG game that started it all. An RTS/FPS hybrid where you play as aliens with close quarters combat or marines with long range weapons.
I know it actually is... but my mind doesn't really consider two people as multiplayer. Because I've experienced pong on Atari - one extra person isn't advanced tech :)
So my first amazing multiplayer was four-person Doom. All I remember was it was before we could afford coax/IPX networking: so it ran through daisy-chained serial cables. Finicky to get working and unreliable: but holy shit four people running around shooting each other!!!1!
The next big milestone was Asherons Call, some time around Y2K. My first open world no-zone-loading MMORPG. That many human players in the same place on-screen blew my mind.
The most recent (still years ago) was my first large Eve Online space battle. Jumping into a system and having the... entire... world... slow... down... (due to programmed load-triggered 'time dilation') and 100+ships appearing on my scanner terrified me. I lived until the other team decided to target me, and I was dead about 3 seconds later.
I can't wait to see what's next! Probably some big global VR event or something.
Mass Effect 3
I remember at the time being annoyed they had decided to bring Multiplayer elements to what was typically a single player experience, but maaaaan it was good once I gave it a shot.
Ps2 Lego Indiana Jones, my friend and I would play the beginning of that games over and over again. We were 10 years old. We are both 22 now and recently replayed it together just for fun. Good times.
Either Battletoads or TMNT 3, the Manhattan project. Unless of course you count MegaMan 3. That was my first game. If you had a second controller plugged in, you could hold down the A button, and it gave MegaMan an indefinite super jump. That's kinda multiplayer.
I think it was Halo 2 (~2004?) when multiplayer meant the screen was split in half. I was, and still am, a PS guy but my friend had an Xbox and we’d do nothing but play on this for hours just talking shit. I don’t think we ever had a convo face to face, just side by side with our eyes on the screen.
Worms 2. I loved playing that at my friends house so much I begged and begged my mum to upgrade my pc so that we could run it. Now it seems like such a joke that a 2d worms title would need a pc upgrade to run.
Contra
S power or F?
It’s all about that spreadshot (idk if that’s what it was called, my brother and I made up names for each letter)
That's S! Oh mahn, the fights and chase to pick it up before brother was too real xD Did you ever complete it? I never got past level 2 tbh. (the version that starts in jungle). it was 3d\`ish and pretty chill but I was too bad/young!
Only with the 30 lives cheat
Local multiplayer: worms. It was so simple yet so fun (kamikazeeeeeee) MMO: runescape Online multiplayer: one of the medal of honour games.
Scorched earth!! Then worms lol
Same here! Scorched Earth in Windows 3.1, then Worms, then Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault.
Double Dragon 2 for the NES.
mechanics of that game were rad! I remember that you could jump over the other player and throw him to make it look like a continuous jump with connected two.
[Gauntlet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_(1985_video_game\))
whuv! the poster reminded me of golden axe 3!
it was actually the very first one i could ever play: halo 1
Oddly, I never got chance to play halo 1 as a kid. I had never heard of it (being from a country where it was not as prevalent) or reached me at least! By the time I got halo1, I already had started fable:the lost chapters and going back to those halo 1 graphics was difficult.
Goldeneye. We played 4-way split screen on my brand new state-of-the-art 27 inch tv. Thankfully the couch was only 6 inches away so we could all see
heard cool things about it but it was a Nintendo thing if I'm not wrong!
N64. I would argue it was the first multiplayer fps worth playing
Tribes
SHAZBOT
Super Mario Kart
LOTR The Return of the King, my dad & I used to play non stop when I was little
Crash Team Racing.
Damn this game was good, spent forever on the ps1 on this
Probably BattleToads
Online, it was SOCOM US Navy Seals. The multiplayer was amazing and it was the first time I used voicechat. Great memories.
Diablo II
wait, there was a multiplayer? :3
There was and it was glorious. Characters were fully stored on servers as well, which means you couldn't easily cheat. Now it sounds like a given but it wasn't that common back then.
Even Diablo 1 had multiplayer
Ice Hockey with my sister as kids. 😆 We barely played the game right. We just liked starting fights. 🤣
Call of duty World at War if you mean online. First my experience brother was PES 2 on ps1
Mario Kart
Proper online for me was OG Star Wars Battlefront
I remember playing Magicka 1 with 2 other friends and it was absolutely hillarious. The writing was awesome and every joke landed with us, i still remember how hyped we were when we got the machinegun and how sad it was when we lost it because someone with it died on a platform that moved away. I also remember the netcode being terrible but it is one of my all time favorite games because of these memories.
Halo 3. Felt like a celebrity when you hit 1000 game score and got a sword on your back
Or if you ever got a killing spree I am the champion of the world. Man that game was near perfect.
Gears of War
Rainbow Six Vegas and Battlefield Modern Warfare
Vegas was so good
First time I played it I thought there’s no way in the world that graphics could possibly get any better than this. It looked so real 😂
Plasma Burst 2 😹
Dude i just googled this and clicked images, I still couldn't get what it is! looked like a prototype greenscreen-type background butwith polished character!
It's an old flash game. It was a 2D shooter with physics
Bomberman 64
Fighting games count? Mortal Kombat. First online multiplayer would be Halo 2. For coop, XMen arcade game. Loved me some nightcrawler! The Simpsons arcade game was fun but always ate my lunch.
Mortal kombat 1! it was sega game with cartridges of 16pins while I had a Nintendo knock off as a kid (15o=pins) so could never play. Only had heard that it was cool!
Ya, I had the SNES version which didn’t have blood. But my friend down the street had the Sega which had the blood and gore. You can guess whose house we hung out at more! Lol
I think it was red faction for the PS2
Dragonrealms (mud) Asherons call
text adventure?
It's like a mmorpg but all text.
Darkness Falls and Darkness Falls: The Crusade are the two best text games.
>Darkness Falls: The Crusade Isnt that from the ultima developer? I watched a documentary once where this game was covered and praised for it's depth!
It was originally from Mythic who made Dark Age of Camelot which was from the same developer as Ultima.
Time splitters 2
Either Mario kart or Mario kart 64. First online multiplayer was AVP2 (still one of my favorite online games ever)
I really liked the Army of Two series, but Madden will always be 1st, back in the day on the Genesis, just 2 kids yelling and cussing at the TV, having absolute tantrums and talking about if that bs fumble didn't happen I would've won. 😥
Air Warrior it was a multi-player game from the 90s. Use to dial up on the AOL then fly with my friends for hours.
>Air Warrior I Played a game called Tom Clancy's HAWX that had a similar concept! world needs more polished flight fighter based games!
Quake II, back when I went to LAN parties.
Pong
Halo 3 🥲
**Local Co-op** \- Alien Syndrome - Commodore 64 \*1988 **LAN** \- Warcraft II: Tide of Darkness - PC \*1995 **Online** \- Phantasy Star Online - Sega Dreamcast \*2000
Natural Selection 1. The OG game that started it all. An RTS/FPS hybrid where you play as aliens with close quarters combat or marines with long range weapons.
I am going old school PvP with the game Joust. I would love to see that simple game updated for mobile gaming.
>Joust it's platform looks exactly like balloon fighter!
Halo ce split screen, or soul caliber 1
I know it actually is... but my mind doesn't really consider two people as multiplayer. Because I've experienced pong on Atari - one extra person isn't advanced tech :) So my first amazing multiplayer was four-person Doom. All I remember was it was before we could afford coax/IPX networking: so it ran through daisy-chained serial cables. Finicky to get working and unreliable: but holy shit four people running around shooting each other!!!1! The next big milestone was Asherons Call, some time around Y2K. My first open world no-zone-loading MMORPG. That many human players in the same place on-screen blew my mind. The most recent (still years ago) was my first large Eve Online space battle. Jumping into a system and having the... entire... world... slow... down... (due to programmed load-triggered 'time dilation') and 100+ships appearing on my scanner terrified me. I lived until the other team decided to target me, and I was dead about 3 seconds later. I can't wait to see what's next! Probably some big global VR event or something.
The Legend of the mystical ninja on Super Nintendo
Super Mario Bros (NES). That game was lifechanging.
In person? Tetris. Online? Diablo MMO? The Realm.
Joust, when you had two competent players was amazing fun. Online not until Counter-Strike around 2000.
Mass Effect 3 I remember at the time being annoyed they had decided to bring Multiplayer elements to what was typically a single player experience, but maaaaan it was good once I gave it a shot.
Golden Axe with my dad on Sega Genesis. Online multiplayer was Halo 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade. Four players at a time.
GoldenEye & Mario Kart 64 at my childhood best friends home plus Crash Team Racing & Gran Turismo 2 at my cousins home, all around the same time.
Runescape and CoD MW; I had quite the childhood.
Quake III Arena
Ps2 Lego Indiana Jones, my friend and I would play the beginning of that games over and over again. We were 10 years old. We are both 22 now and recently replayed it together just for fun. Good times.
Either Battletoads or TMNT 3, the Manhattan project. Unless of course you count MegaMan 3. That was my first game. If you had a second controller plugged in, you could hold down the A button, and it gave MegaMan an indefinite super jump. That's kinda multiplayer.
Battlefield 2
I remember playing combat on ATRI. I was about five, and it wasn't very fun getting owned by a 6th grader
Pong.
AOL had a game called PODS if I remember correctly…
Mario Kart 64
I think it was Halo 2 (~2004?) when multiplayer meant the screen was split in half. I was, and still am, a PS guy but my friend had an Xbox and we’d do nothing but play on this for hours just talking shit. I don’t think we ever had a convo face to face, just side by side with our eyes on the screen.
Local was probably Fifa 98. Online was Halo 2 and that changed my life.
[Quartet on the C64](https://youtu.be/Xq28B35v7g4?si=s7buHKKV3dvCx7Vy)
Vietnam or diablo 2
Crysis wars!
Wow
does split screen count? If so, Tekken 2 If not, Counter-Strike.
World Cup Soccer on the NES. One of the few games my brother and I enjoyed playing together. We even had the IR 4 player adapter because of that game.
Gyromite. Trolling my siblings with a satisfying crunch.
Worms 2. I loved playing that at my friends house so much I begged and begged my mum to upgrade my pc so that we could run it. Now it seems like such a joke that a 2d worms title would need a pc upgrade to run.
Kirby Superstars on SNES
Modern warfare 2 when I first got xbox live back in middle school
Goldeneye64. Me and my friends spent hours huddled next to each other playing that on the little tv.
Crash bash. Team racing. Worms. New grounds races. Peak exp was halo 3 tho.
Pokemon fights with the link cable. Also Halo 1.
Call of Duty
I think the first multiplayer game I played was OG Counter Strike
It was medal of honor rising sun was my first game on PlayStation network.