I remember a time when ALL games were single-player, non-networked. I remember when the first online games took hold, how magical we all thought that we could reach out and share the experience with someone far away.
My first online “game” was flying side-by-side with a friend in Flight Simulator. We used the software’s built-in modem feature, and to this day I remember how neat it felt to be able to fly around his plane and interact with it, in real-time 3D. Freaky.
Today, we yawn at such stuff!