Computer games and virtual reality

Computer games in the 50s and 60s – DS, X Box, Wii, PS whatever – were there many and were the games easily available?  Hard as it is for any sub 30 year old to imagine, there were none – none at all – no virtual reality, no games on smart phones (no mobile phones at all), no Internet, no emails . .  . nothing but actual reality.  Having no virtual reality did mean that people of the fifties and sixties had to TALK to each other face to face and to MEET each other face to face – a social network was made up of people that one met and talked with – friends were real, not added points to the Facebook visible total of ‘friends’ not known.  Board games were played on boards with pieces to move, not on screen recreations; sums had to be worked out on paper, not using a calculator. Children used to go outside to play, to kick a ball about in the street, on the recreation ground, in a park or on a bombsite.

It was in the late 70s that the first computer games popped up - tennis followed by space invaders played on Atari console plugged into the back of a TV.

I do not remember any mass killings in the 50s by deranged people going into schools and randomly shooting children and teachers – please do tell me if I am wrong. Could it be that the insane violence is spawned and nurtured by violent video games?