5000 Years Of Social Gaming History [Infographic]

Farmville and Mafia Wars might be the most popular social games, but they are not the first social games to be built. If you go with the literal meaning of social games, i.e. games that people play with others, the existence of social games could be traced as far back as 5000 years. This is exactly what Jon Radoff has done in his infographics that charts the 5000 years social gaming, from the time of Ancient Egypt to the present day.

Radoff maintains that social gaming constitutes an activity involving game mechanics and social interaction between the players, and this has existed for thousands of years.

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