10 Iconic Video Game Features That Were Invented By Accident
9. The Birth Of Counter-Strike
The genre of multiplayer first-person-shooters was shot into the limelight with the invention of the game Counter-Strike. In spite of this, Counter-Strike was never actually intended to be a fully-fledged game.
Finding the multiplayer deathmatches in the game Half-Life to be boring, two programmers named Jess Cliffe and Minh Le created a mod for the game. Unbeknownst to them, their mod would go on to become incredibly popular in the fanbase, and became the building blocks for the game Counter-Strike.
Valve bought the rights to Cliffe and Le’s mod, spun it into its own game, and the world has never looked back since. Counter-Strike received spin-offs and sequels, so it is bizarre to imagine that it only came about as the result of Half-Life’s deathmatches being subpar!