Internet Gaming Zone Overview
  
PSS ID Number: Q156307
Article last modified on 03-24-1998
 

 
MACINTOSH WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Internet Gaming Zone
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SUMMARY
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The Internet Gaming Zone allows players to engage in challenging
competition with other players around the world. The Internet Gaming
Zone supports game matchmaking and launching. The gamer navigates to
the game he or she wishes to play, finds an opponent, and launches
the game.
 
Gaming Zone offers classic games such as Hearts, Bridge, Spades, Chess,
Checkers, Go, Reversi, and Backgammon. The current release also includes
the ability for Zone members to matchmake and launch network-enabled retail
games of Microsoft Hellbender, Golf 3.0 or Monster Truck Madness from the
Web site. Players can also matchmake Lucas Arts Outlaws and X-Wing vs. TIE
Fighter. ActiveX Controls allow you to find opponents and play any Zone
enabled retail game over the Internet. Additional retail games will be
added periodically.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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Microsoft acquired Internet Gaming Zone from Electric Gravity in June
1996.
 
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Keywords          : kbusage
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbinfo
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Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.