Topic summary
Team Deathmatch
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Deathmatch (video games).
History
Even before the term deathmatch was first used, there existed games with a similar gameplay mode. MIDI Maze was a multiplayer first-person shooter for the Atari ST, released in 1987, which has been suggested as the first example of deathmatch gameplay. Sega's 1988 third-person shooterarcade gameLast Survivor featured eight-player deathmatch. Another early example of a deathmatch mode in a first-person shooter was Taito's 1992 video game Gunbuster. It allowed two-player cooperative gameplay for the mission mode, and featured an early deathmatch mode, where either two players could compete against each other or up to four players could compete in a team deathmatch, consisting of two teams with two players each competing against each other.