 The same year, Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, had suggested that games had no merit and offered little in the way of anything constructive to young people.Despite early general claims of the negative effects of video games, however, effects of these concerns were relatively minor prior to the early 1990s.Discussion of the impact of violence in video games came as early as 1976's "Death Race" arcade game (a game with black and white graphics which involved running over screaming zombies).