Multiplayer Online Games 41 CHAPTER INFORMATION IN THIS CHAPTER: l The culture of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) MMORPG data as evidence l INTRODUCTION Online multiplayer gaming started way back in the mid-1970s when people played games called Multi User Dungeons (MUDs) on the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). The ARPANET was the first packet-switched net- work, which would eventually become what we know today as the Internet.