1. Arcade Games 1970~1980 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

2. Atari Football featured addictive multiplayer game play, initially for two players and later for four players

3. Despite the crash in computer games in the early 1980s, Atari released Guantlet, an innovative dungeon crawl for up to four players simultaneously

4. pay for play In the 1980s, the idea of ‘pay for play’ first emerged, with several game companies hosting online games and charging a monthly fee to play them. text-based games a space battle that supported up to 100 simultaneous players.