Computer and Video Games. Nowadays a lot of people play video or computer games regularly. Some modern teenagers think that people A such games for hundreds of years. But video games are a new hobby. They did not start to become popular until the 1970s and 1980s. One of the B games was Spacewar. It C Technology in 1962. The object of the game was to destroy your opponent's spaceship. In 1989 Nintendo released the first Game Boy. It became one of the D In the mid-1990s developments in networking technology and graphics E "massively multiplayer" online games, such as Ultima Online and Everquest.