At the start, web games were specially a P.C thing.

A place where Personal computer users could play with and against other users on their fave games like Half Life, no longer would the users need to be together to face one another, now they could play against users all around the world. Half Life would start a big wave of renown in web gaming, with so a flexible base to build on, many fans of the game were excited to put their own angle on things. One of the first and most well-liked alterations was named Counter Strike. AKA CS, the game would be based round the notion of cops and thieves, one team would be terrorists the others would be squaddies, each team would have a role to finish, be it blowing up a location or rescuing hostages, the users were always engaged both psychologically and physically. It’d be a big success and lots of other games would follow this platform in internet gaming, in the way that there would be one team of good fellows and one team of villains who are set against one another in a race to the top. From Counter Strike things would get much larger and better. Where games like Imaginary Contest would stick to the format of either player vs. player or team vs. team, other games would look to bump the bounds and try and take internet games in a new direction. Games like Team Fortress Classic would bring the game to a higher level.

The first Team Fortress was a mod for the popular game Quake, and was another true original that sparked web games.

But things would stick to the same idiom of team vs. team combat, following this class things would get much larger. Where games were typically held between a grouping of players between the numbers of ten or twenty, a game would come onto the market that would blow that number out of the water. Joint Operations would be the 1st game that might offer servers to host games played between 150 players. The premise was the same, a good team and a bad team working to finish their objectives. But Joint Operations did it on a much larger scale, no longer was it tiny linear map, it had been a gigantic map with vehicles, boats, tanks and helicopters. With a day night cycle included internet gaming had reached a different level of scale. But this was just a half of online games; there had been another side to it. Where you had first person shooters as the #1 internet games idiom, another genus was fast to rob its spot, Role Playing Games. Also known as RPG’s, these games would permit the user to step into the lives of some other person, to form a personality and hop into their life was something web games hadn’t managed to do before, players were hooked.

Loads of players could nearly get together, talk, swap, sell and conquer all kinds of hurdles together under their own guise. RPG’s now needed to be named under a different acronym since so many folk were playing them, MMORPGS. Which stood for “Colossally Multi player Online Role Playing Games”, While there had been loads of games before it that had made a big hit out of this new idiom like Ever-quest, only 1 game brought these games to the spotlights. World of War craft took MMORPG’s from the cellar of internet game players to the TV’s and stores all around the globe, and the crowd loved it.