The Evolution of Gaming - Part 1

I was exposed to video games be it computer games, console games, arcade and etc at a relatively young age. Well probably not as young as kids these days but for my time i think it should be quite young la. Although i never actually had a computer or a console till i was pretty much in my teens i did enjoy a fair amount of electronic gaming. I remember can still remember those old games from way back when the graphics was like total crap, dual tone colors...which eventually evolved slowly to what you see today. As games evolved with technology so did the learning curve and difficulty of games, it just got more and more challenging. There was practically no such thing as multiplayer games and there sure as hell wasn't any MMORPG. I can't exactly remember when was the first time i played a multiplayer game over LAN, but it should be around the time when Doom 2 (if i'm not wrong) came out with a multiplayer version...hahaha, i can even remember it was in school. During those days i don't have a PC fast enough to handle something like Doom, so i had to go to my buddy's house after school to play. Ahem....So anyway, one day the school had some sort of LAN party and alot of people brought their comps to school and hook it up using parallel cables (gosh now thats some ancient way of networking pcs). After everything was setup everyone had a share to play Doom (can't remember whether it was against each other or with each other). It was from there that computers started to come with a multiplayer mode, where people can connect via LAN network, TCP/IP or IPX. Games like Warcraft and eventually Red Alert and Quake took the gaming industry by storm and revolutionize the way games are played forever. Ahhh....the good old days.