{"id":1189,"date":"2016-02-16T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2016-02-16T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T15:31:45","slug":"retro-scan-dwango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1189\/retro-scan-dwango","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> DWANGO Online Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dwango_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/dwango_small.jpg\" alt=\"DWANGO Quake Doom Online FPS multiplayer online server Advertisement Scan - 1998\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Looks real to me<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DWANGO, which stood for &#8220;Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation,&#8221; was an online matchmaking service that specialized in FPS games like Doom and Quake.  It has a fascinating history that you can read about more in its <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DWANGO\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I signed up for a free trial of DWANGO circa 1994 so I could play Doom with someone when I was bored, but I don&#8217;t remember ever getting it working for some reason.  Instead, I often played co-op Doom (and later Quake) modem-to-modem with friends who called my BBS.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From GamePro, May 1998, p.67 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> When was the first time you played a FPS multiplayer online?  How did you set it up? (i.e. modem-to-modem, TCP\/IP, services like Dwango)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks real to me DWANGO, which stood for &#8220;Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation,&#8221; was an online matchmaking service that specialized in FPS games like Doom and Quake. It has a fascinating history that you can read about more in its Wikipedia article. I believe I signed up for a free trial of DWANGO circa 1994 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,35,27,26,9,10],"tags":[249,150,1343,1342,377,1339,628,205,859,829,1340,1341,60],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-249","tag-advertisement","tag-co-op","tag-deathmatch","tag-doom","tag-dwango","tag-fps","tag-gamepro","tag-online","tag-online-service","tag-quake","tag-quake-ii","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}