I have always argued that the most effective genre for competition between players were sports games and fighting games.
There were games that offered the possibility of playing up to four players on one console, such as the legendary Speed Freaks, although older PSX Extreme readers associate these parodic go-kart races with some action at Sokolska Street. It is not without reason that Sony developed a real golden tool of that era – multitap. Before esports came, neighborhoods were bursting at the seams with groups of friends playing regularly in the same room almost every day during the holiday season.
