Thousands are playing games online such as Mario brothers, ping pong, Tetris and the list goes on. These games are free online for the ones who want to play. All this started back in the seventies and in nineteen ninety three it hit like there was no tomorrow. With the games War craft and Doom, it even became more popular.

If any of you are old enough to remember the dinosaur computers in the fifties, where they took up almost an entire room, there was a college student that developed a class project to play on the computer called Tic-Tac-Toe. It was a hit. Then in the sixties MIT students made up a came called “Space War” this game could be played with two people over a very primitive network. Table tennis and shooter became quite the games to play back then.

And then let the games begin as serious online gaming began in the seventies. The very first interactive online game was called ADVENT. In a fantasy world, would play against each other. Then Maze war appeared online in which players would go through a maze and try and kill each other.

Remember the online game DUNGEN? Where the players were competing against each other and had to complete a series of quests. New settings were made up when the player logged onto the game. The seventies brought more and more computers into the average home and then the games were more and more popular. Many a programming hobbyists traded and sold these games to the local market. Then came the cartridges of the games, where they could be put into the base unit instead of having those large game console systems.

In the eighties there was a pause before the big storm as it were. The madness of the computer and all the games that could be played on it slowly died down just a bit. But the new games being developed were being made with better graphics and sound quality was being made to actually sound good. Nintendo was probably the first of that kind to be introduced as a gaming system.

Then came the nineties and all exploded to say the least. Everybody had to have a computer and all the games that went with it. The technology and better games were to have for sure. The rise of the multimedia and 3-D certainly helped this takeoff. Myst was the first intellectual adventure game that was on the CD-ROM. Then fancier 3-D graphics hardware made FPS (first person shooter) games such as Quake so popular.

Through the years online gaming has made a large impact on computer players. For free or sign up you can play just about any game out there. Some will charge you, some will not. From poker, card games, popular board games, such as dominoes, cribbage, etc. as with buying a computer, the games you do buy will probably be obsolete by the time it is installed. Go and conquer.