DWANGO
The Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation, better known by the acronym DWANGO was an early online gaming service based in the United States.[1] The service ceased operation after 1998.
Overview
DWANGO was originally called the "Doom Wide-Area Network Game Organization" for its support of the popular computer game Doom. The service was based in Houston, Texas and originally users had to use their modems to dial a phone number in Houston's 713 area code to access the service. Independent servers began going operational across most major cities in the US such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and San Jose, and in Montreal in the province of Quebec.[2] However, the American service would later expand to cover parts of Asia.[3] Later, the company would enter into a partnership with Microsoft and its Internet Gaming Zone.[1].
In the mid 1990s Silicon Valley DWANGO members, including gaming champion Dennis Fong known as "Thresh," began gathering for events called "FragFests" in which member computers were connected to an internal computer network for game play.[4]
Games supported
Games supported included the following:[3]
- Big Red Racing
- Blood
- Descent II
- Doom
- Doom II: Hell on Earth
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Final Doom
- Heretic
- HeXen
- MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
- Shadow Warrior
- Terminal Velocity
- The Ultimate Doom
- Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
- Quake II
DWANGO WADs
One of the widest reaching aspects of DWANGO were the semi-official DWANGO wads created by various authors. Compiled into collections by Lance Lancaster, a.k.a Aikman, an employee of IVS (the operators of DWANGO), they are still widely used amongst the Doom faithful.
References
- ^ a b ""DWANGO Zone To Be Featured on Microsoft's Internet Gaming Zone"". Retrieved June 23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ "DWANGO 2.0 readme". Retrieved June 23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ a b ""DWANGO Does Asia"". Retrieved June 23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ FragFest history
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