I played quite a few round at different friends' houses but the first time I played in my house was Red Faction: Guerilla. We only got WiFi about a year and a half ago and the only game I had in the house with multiplayer was that. It was actually quite fun.
Quake 2 over a 56k modem is the first thing I can recall apart from AOL chatroom games. I used to play a few various Sailor Moon games there. Farther back than that, I do recall playing some undetermined MUD's at a friends house, but I can't say what any of them were.
The first non-pc game that I played online (which I'm not really sure of anyway, the earliest one I can remember playing is Runescape) would have been Mario Kart DS, which was awesome, except for when people snaked... which was most of the time.
I don't do online as such - I jave no desire. However, the only games I have ever tried online have been Advance Wars and Mario Kart on the DS. Advance Wars was the first. I gave up pretty quick when people would quit when I was about to win. I didn't enjoy it at all. Not for me.
Diablo was one of the first games I played online on my own connection - getting our own internet connection wee-way back on new years' eve 1996->1997, not sure if I played anything in the 2 days before it was out though, possibly Quake (though I think that was before quakeworld so... might've been dicey, don't remember).
Plenty of serial-port Doom and similar before then though.
I'm not sure I remember correctly, but the best I can remember is Team Fortress 2 for the 360, back when that wasn't entirely laughable. Oddly enough, I never experienced the "teenagers yelling epithets at you through the microphone" thing, since most of the people I played with used it for things like general strategy and not being total asshats.
EverQuest. The idea of being in an RPG world that was populated by a whole bunch of other human beings (online that is) was the most incredible thing for me back then. Nearly failed out of a bunch of classes in my sophomore year of high school too because of it. That was a gaming experience I will never have again. Soul sucking but goddamn was it magical.
I was a late adapter to playing games online. My first game was probably either Midtown Madness 2 or the PC-version of Halo. I played both over 56K but it was during the tail end of my time with that type of modem.
Holy crap, that's a good question. I don't think I can properly remember. I know it wasn't Doom or Quake or anything like that because I only ever played those via LAN. Same with Starcraft. The closest I can come up with for sure is Counter-Strike; and boy, did I play a lot of Counter-Strike.
Duke 3D on the PC, one on one style. For console it must have been Mech Assault, I remember how amazing it was to have that kind of multiplayer with voice chat and all on a console.
For me, it was the original Socom on ps1. I went out and bought the Network Adapter and the game and gave it a whirl. I loved it.
Although, I do remember in grade school, our teacher would set up a LAN in the computer lab and we would all duke it out on Warcraft 2. That was a blast too.
I'm not going to include PC gaming so the first game I played online was the fucking amazing online co op for Crackdown.
Why are you not including PC? That seems silly and totally not the question asked.
Because it would have been Diablo 2 and for a lot of people this generation is the first they've played online like 6 years after those of us who played on the PC. I chose to limit myself to picking a game from a generation where most modern video game players got online capabilities.
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