10 Classic Multiplayer Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

10. Worms (Amiga)

Worms is a 2D turn-based strategy game where you controlled a team of worms, whose simple goal was to wipe out all the other teams of worms. It was like a basic microcosm of all wars and conflicts that have ever been played out, except with worms and exploding sheep.

It was an update on old-school geometric shooters like Atari's Artillery Duel, or another old Amiga favourite, Scorched Tanks. Instead of uninteresting polygons blowing each other up though, you had colourful, cutesy worms instead. Which sounds a bit sadistic and evil in retrospect, but made for a fun-looking game nonetheless.

A key element to the success of Worms was its multiplayer functionality. As the game was turn-based, it meant up to 16 players could partake in one battle. Although for most of us gamers in our teens, we would count ourselves lucky to have had that many friends to play with.

Worms has gone on to become a long-standing franchise in the multiplayer combat game genre, and deservedly so too. Even if its success has partially led to the spread of an avian disease crisis of recent years, known only as Angry Birds.