StoryFor all of you young gamers out there, this gal is a big piece of gaming history.
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Multiplayer games are getting so popular -- see the 2.4 million games World of Warcraft sold recently in one day -- that it's hard to think back to where it all began. But there was a time when it was just an idea in the head of game designer Dani Bunten Berry.
Bunten, who died in 1998, is credited with creating one of the first multi-player video games called M.U.L.E. in 1983, well before the Internet and broadband helped link players around the world in epic virtual contests. Bunten's imagination helped eventually shape the face of video gaming, inspiring luminaries like designers Will Wright and Sid Meier.
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Bunten's life, like the industry she helped shape, underwent a lot of changes and turmoil. After her third marriage failed, Bunten, who was born Daniel Bunten, underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1992.
