Dial-Up Days: How the Early Days of Online Shaped Console Gaming

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Playing video games online is so common in our lives these days, that it's almost become a part of our DNA. Most people have at least one game that they play online, no matter how big or small its reputation is. For every person putting in multiple hours at night into Fortnite or Call of Duty, there's just as many people playing some random online game that none of us have heard of.

It's so common, in fact, that it's sometimes easy to forget when it wasn't. At least, if you're primarily a console player, that is. On PC, playing games online with friends over the internet, or if you're of a certain vintage, at a LAN party, has been the standard nearly since the industry's inception.

When the frenzied world of online gaming came to home consoles, however, it was an entirely different story. Early home consoles had what we call couch co-op, but the prospect of playing a game online with a friend, or indeed a complete stranger, halfway around the world felt like the dark magic we'd only seen in movies.

Yet, as the sixth-generation of consoles came around, technology made it not only plausible, but a reality. A reality that would shape the entire foundation of console gaming for decades.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, online multiplayer gaming was fairly rote if you were a PC gamer. Hopping on to play something like Counter Strike or Quake was just something routine you did after school, becoming a part of our everyday lives fairly naturally. I don't exactly recall the first time I played a PC game online, but it was just fundamental to the platform.

In the home console market, while these platforms were producing some of the most impressive and iconic games of all time, online gaming was something of a mystery. Whether it was possible or not ultimately didn't matter, because someone, somewhere, would make it happen if enough money could be made from it.

As the fifth-generation of consoles came to an end, the machines that were poised to dominate the 2000s were all coming out in a post-Dreamcast world. Unfortunately for them, the Dreamcast had hit the market running with an Ethernet adapter that allowed for online play. Worse yet, the Dreamcast was absolutely flush with sports titles that all took full advantage.

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