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A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of 😊 the gaming session. A single-player game is usually a game that can only be played by one person, while "single-player 😊 mode" is usually a game mode designed to be played by a single player, though the game also contains multi-player 😊 modes.[1] History [ edit ] The earliest video games, such as Tennis for Two (1958), Spacewar! (1962), and Pong (1972), were symmetrical 😊 games designed to be played by two players. Single-player games gained popularity only after this, with early titles such as 😊 Speed Race (1974)[3] and Space Invaders (1978). The reason for this, according to Raph Koster, is down to a combination of 😊 several factors: increasingly sophisticated computers and interfaces that enabled asymmetric gameplay, cooperative gameplay and story delivery within a gaming framework, 😊 coupled with the fact that the majority of early games players had introverted personality types (according to the Myers-Briggs personality 😊 type indicator).[4] Characters [ edit ] |