First First Person Shooter to offer online multiplayer on a console
- Who
- Quake III Arena
- What
- First
- When
- 24 October 2000
The earliest major release (and first FPS) to allow real-time networked gaming was Quake III Arena, released for Sega’s Dreamcast on 24 October 2000. It was also possible to connect Dreamcast and PC, allowing console gamers to take on owners of the PC version.