The first game in the world made to be played on a computer is named Tennis for Two. It was developed by William Higinbotham in 1958. And since that day, many developers has developed countless games.
The first online game to ever exist is called Spacewar. It was the first game you could interact with other people. And these kind of games are really popular today. You can chat with other people by using game’s own chat or talking via voice chatting applications like Discord.
While there are lots of people who see these games only as a means of entertainment, there are also many people who say that these games are harmful to people. So it has adventages, although of course there are some negative effects of online games.
Starting with adventages of these kind of games, since you can interact with other people using various ways, you can meet new people on these games and these meetings can lead to strong friendships to form. Personally, I met my best friend online while I was just playing games.
Besides of these positive effectsi of course these social interactions with other people to cause bad things. First of all, the game itself can become an addiction and it may cause you to fail you lessons, being isolated from your family and this can also lead to some problems with your family because of your addiction. Besides that, since you can interact with other people and this interaction is being made online, people feel like they are not responsible for their acitons and that can cause negative events like cyber bullying. You can also get into arguments with other people in the game and if person you are arguing with is a psychopat, that can result with bad. They can find your real name, surname, which city you live or even the exact place you live. This may cause them to come to your house or even start a fight.
In conclusion, besides all of the positive effects of online games, I think negative effects are more dominant. Positive effects doesn’t have anything useful in your life besides friendships, negative effects can really harm you.