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The first computer games

We have played computer games for about sixty years, and nowadays games are very sophisticated. But did you know that the first computer game was a version of noughts and crosses? It was in black and white and it was very simple. A scientist called A.S. Douglas © Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2016 designed it in 1952 while he was studying at Cambridge University. In 1962, an American computer engineer created ‘SpaceWar!’ His name was Steve Russell and it took him and his team of computer programmers 200 hours to design the programme. Steve loved reading science-fiction books so he wanted to invent the first science fiction game. If you play the game today, it will seem very simple and boring, but in 1962 it was an amazing invention. Nowadays, most young people enjoy playing computer games at home on their computers or consoles, but in the 1970s and 1980s teenagers didn’t have computers. They went to arcades to play the new, exciting computer games. In the future, computer games will inevitably change. Major companies are spending a lot of money on developing very realistic games, and some games are going to have so many levels that you will never finish the game! 

1 The first computer game was

The first computer games

We have played computer games for about sixty years, and nowadays games are very sophisticated. But did you know that the first computer game was a version of noughts and crosses? It was in black and white and it was very simple. A scientist called A.S. Douglas © Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2016 designed it in 1952 while he was studying at Cambridge University. In 1962, an American computer engineer created ‘SpaceWar!’ His name was Steve Russell and it took him and his team of computer programmers 200 hours to design the programme. Steve loved reading science-fiction books so he wanted to invent the first science fiction game. If you play the game today, it will seem very simple and boring, but in 1962 it was an amazing invention. Nowadays, most young people enjoy playing computer games at home on their computers or consoles, but in the 1970s and 1980s teenagers didn’t have computers. They went to arcades to play the new, exciting computer games. In the future, computer games will inevitably change. Major companies are spending a lot of money on developing very realistic games, and some games are going to have so many levels that you will never finish the game!

2 The designer of the first computer game was .

The first computer games

We have played computer games for about sixty years, and nowadays games are very sophisticated. But did you know that the first computer game was a version of noughts and crosses? It was in black and white and it was very simple. A scientist called A.S. Douglas © Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2016 designed it in 1952 while he was studying at Cambridge University. In 1962, an American computer engineer created ‘SpaceWar!’ His name was Steve Russell and it took him and his team of computer programmers 200 hours to design the programme. Steve loved reading science-fiction books so he wanted to invent the first science fiction game. If you play the game today, it will seem very simple and boring, but in 1962 it was an amazing invention. Nowadays, most young people enjoy playing computer games at home on their computers or consoles, but in the 1970s and 1980s teenagers didn’t have computers. They went to arcades to play the new, exciting computer games. In the future, computer games will inevitably change. Major companies are spending a lot of money on developing very realistic games, and some games are going to have so many levels that you will never finish the game!

3 Steve Russell worked ____ to create ‘SpaceWar!’

The first computer games

We have played computer games for about sixty years, and nowadays games are very sophisticated. But did you know that the first computer game was a version of noughts and crosses? It was in black and white and it was very simple. A scientist called A.S. Douglas © Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2016 designed it in 1952 while he was studying at Cambridge University. In 1962, an American computer engineer created ‘SpaceWar!’ His name was Steve Russell and it took him and his team of computer programmers 200 hours to design the programme. Steve loved reading science-fiction books so he wanted to invent the first science fiction game. If you play the game today, it will seem very simple and boring, but in 1962 it was an amazing invention. Nowadays, most young people enjoy playing computer games at home on their computers or consoles, but in the 1970s and 1980s teenagers didn’t have computers. They went to arcades to play the new, exciting computer games. In the future, computer games will inevitably change. Major companies are spending a lot of money on developing very realistic games, and some games are going to have so many levels that you will never finish the game!

4 In the 1970s, young people ____ played computer games at home.

The first computer games

We have played computer games for about sixty years, and nowadays games are very sophisticated. But did you know that the first computer game was a version of noughts and crosses? It was in black and white and it was very simple. A scientist called A.S. Douglas © Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2016 designed it in 1952 while he was studying at Cambridge University. In 1962, an American computer engineer created ‘SpaceWar!’ His name was Steve Russell and it took him and his team of computer programmers 200 hours to design the programme. Steve loved reading science-fiction books so he wanted to invent the first science fiction game. If you play the game today, it will seem very simple and boring, but in 1962 it was an amazing invention. Nowadays, most young people enjoy playing computer games at home on their computers or consoles, but in the 1970s and 1980s teenagers didn’t have computers. They went to arcades to play the new, exciting computer games. In the future, computer games will inevitably change. Major companies are spending a lot of money on developing very realistic games, and some games are going to have so many levels that you will never finish the game!

5 In the future, computer games will ____ . a) cost more to buy b) take longer to play