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When multiplayer meant this.

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When multiplayer meant this.

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Mysterious-Lab-5918@reddit

1 vs 1
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MisRandomness@reddit

Bill the egghead
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ltaylor00@reddit

Still have my original one! The box is held together with some tape. When you open it up you get a faint whiff of 1987, like cracking open an old book
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SignificantApricot69@reddit

I mean… for some of us it still does. Or multiple controllers sitting in the same room on the same game system, at most.
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Drum_Eatenton@reddit

I eat monopoly and shit out connect four.
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josephsleftbigtoe@reddit

Pretty sure I had that exact box as a kid.
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MCA2142@reddit

Player 1: light gun Player 2: you control the ducks.
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HopelessMagic@reddit

Because Pong didn't exist? Oh wait... It did!
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Dee-Whizz@reddit (OP)

Never played Pong. Don’t tell anyone
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HopelessMagic@reddit

Well, it predates Connect Four by a couple years.
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Dee-Whizz@reddit (OP)

This. With Pong, you still had two butts on a couch, on chairs. All players were in the same room—unless you worked on a some top secret project for the government and had access to the early version of “the internets.” Multiplayer today, consists of people playing games with people they may never see, share a beer with, or go out to catch a movie with after a game of, say, Pong or, Connect Four.
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HopelessMagic@reddit

My daughter met her current boyfriend during an online game of Destiny. Turns out, he only lived 20 miles away. They played together online for almost a year until they decided to go hang out in person. There's still connection. It just works differently now.
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Dee-Whizz@reddit (OP)

There’s connection. I can live with that. But you’d have to admit, well you don’t have to; but it would be nice. If you popularized the term “multi-player” back in the day, most people would take it to mean someone taking a game off a shelf and sitting it on a kitchen table or some other piece of furniture with a flat surface. Or the floor. Then 2 or more people would play the game. After all, single-player Twister is just plain sad 😔
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gooch_norris_@reddit

Pretty sneaky sis
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Ultimate-Flexionator@reddit

and now it means zoom call gooner program edging hypno with friends... all cams on... ☹️
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