a brief history of the emergence of co-op mode in games. SplitScreen and HotSeat.

First, we need to understand what a cooperative is and what it is. This Wikipedia article will help us with this:
Cooperative game. cooperative game – joint game, abbreviated co-op or coop) – a mode in computer games in which two or more players cooperate with each other, jointly overcoming obstacles, for example, in the form of a battle against AI-controlled opponents.
There are different types of co-op mode: network play (play from different devices using the Internet), HotSeat (play on one device without splitting the screen), SpitScreen (play on one device using split screen). In this blog we will talk about co-op using SplitScreen and HotSeat.
Perhaps the very first appearance of cooperative gaming was in 1966, when Ralph Baer created a simple game for two players. The game was called “TV Game chassis” and consisted of two points on the screen, each point was controlled by a player, the task of the game was to catch up with the opponent.

Then in 1967, Ralph’s third https://foxygold-casino.uk/ game was Ping-Pong. Based on these games, Ralph assembled a prototype of the first console called "Brown Box". The console provided the opportunity for two players to play, use a light gun and switches to select a game, there were 16 of them in total, mainly including sports-themed games – football, hockey, volleyball, etc.

Then after the popularity of Pong, most of the co-op games were in the 80s and 90s. It was in 1985 that the popular “Battle City” and all over the world “Super Mario Bros” were released.

And finally, the first game with the opportunity to go through the story with a friend appeared in 2002, it was “The Gathering Storm”. This was, of course, not a full game, but an addition to the game “Heroes of Might and Magic IV”. According to the plot of The Gathering Storm, five heroes – archmage Bob, wizard Kozus, bard Agrainel, barbarian Dogwoggle and dark priestess Alita Eventide – enter into a secret alliance to stop an evil sorcerer named Hexis, who, by controlling the forces of Nature and Death, causes cataclysms and natural disasters that can destroy the entire continent of Lodwar. To gain the power to defeat Hexis, the heroes leave their home, the kingdom of Devonshire, and go in search of powerful artifacts.

Now HotSeat and SplitScreen are rare in games, we can only note a couple of good games with co-op on one device: A Way Out, Lego, Battlefront 1, The escapists 2, Human Fall Fat, Unravel two, etc.d.