Online Gaming Online gaming was born at the dawn of the Internet, with text games like BBS on Telnet. My husband and I met fighting each other in cyberspace as students. By now though, its top-down graphics look dated. Verant's EverQuest is dubbed EverCrack because of its addiction value. Microsoft's Asheron's Call isn't quite as successful as EverQuest, but has a good following and more logical and less annoying customer service.
Many new titles are in the making.
Some are strategy games, some RPGs. Some have Player vs. Player combat. Others treat women characters like people, while others treat them like Barbie dolls. Whether they will succeed depends on how much the online gaming population grows. E-mail our editor .