1. A Brief History of Gaming
Tic-Tac-Toe ’52 – first CRT
Tennis-for-two ’58 – pong on o-scope
Space War ’61 – 1st widely dist.
Atari’s Pong ’72 – 1st popular arcade
Wump , Adventure ’72 – 1st text adventures
Death Race ’76 – 1st controversial
Atari 2600 ’77 – 1st cartridge console
Zork ’77 – 1st commercially successful text adventure
Space Wars ’78 – 1st vector arcade
Space Invaders ‘78 – 1st high score
MUD ’79 – 1st multi-user adventure
Pac-Man ’80 – most popular arcade

2. A Brief History of Gaming
CRASH of ’83!
Nintendo ’85 – revived industry
Game Boy ‘89 – 1st popular handheld
Doom ’93, DKC ’94 – 1st popular 3D FPS
Playstation, Nintento 64, Sega – battle of format
EverQuest, Lineage – successful MMORPG
PlayStation 2 ‘00– 1st DVD, dynamic 3D
Nokia N-Gage ‘03 – 1st multi-function handheld
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ‘06 – today’s State of the Art

3. Nintendo Timeline 1889 – Playing cards 1960s – Light gun arcades
1970s – Oddysey distributor
Color TV Game 6
1981 – Donkey Kong arcade
1983 – Famicom (Family Computer)
1985 American release of NES
1991 – SNES
Nintendo 64 – 1st 3D
Nintendo Gamecube
2006 – Nintendo Revolution
annual autumn open houses, which are held to show the public how safe the work going on there is, are bored with the displays of simple photographs and static equipment.
His idea is to use a small analog computer in the lab to graph and display the trajectory of a moving ball on an oscilloscope

4. Nintendo Milestones Longest running console manufacturer
The NES introduced three very important concepts to the video game system industry:
Using a pad controller instead of a joystick
Creating authentic reproductions of arcade video games for the home system
Using the hardware as a loss leader by aggressively pricing it, then making a profit on the games themselves
Console lockout “Seal of Quality”
Cartridge in N64
1994 Donkey Kong Country - scanned 3D model sprites
annual autumn open houses, which are held to show the public how safe the work going on there is, are bored with the displays of simple photographs and static equipment.
His idea is to use a small analog computer in the lab to graph and display the trajectory of a moving ball on an oscilloscope

5. Sega Timeline 1940 – Standard Games formed in Hawaii
1951 – Moves to Tokyo, becomes SErvice Games (SEGA) – coin op games
1965 – Merges with Rosen Enterprises
Rosen leads sale to Gulf & Western
1984 – Sega Enterprises Ltd. formed in Japan.
1990 – Sega Genesis (16bit)
1994 – Sega Channel
1994 – Sega Saturn
1999 – Sega Dreamcast (128bit)
2001 – Multi-platform development
annual autumn open houses, which are held to show the public how safe the work going on there is, are bored with the displays of simple photographs and static equipment.
His idea is to use a small analog computer in the lab to graph and display the trajectory of a moving ball on an oscilloscope

6. Sega Milestones Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
Virtua Fighter (non-violence policy)
ChuChu Rocket (2000) – 1st online console
annual autumn open houses, which are held to show the public how safe the work going on there is, are bored with the displays of simple photographs and static equipment.
His idea is to use a small analog computer in the lab to graph and display the trajectory of a moving ball on an oscilloscope

7. Sony Timeline 1946 – Tokyo Tsuchin Kogyo formed
Repairing electrical equipment
1954 – licenses transistor, makes radio,
Changes name to Sony (sonus)
1975 – Betamax VCR
1979 – Walkman
1982 – CD player
1988 – 1992 Nintendo CD-ROM drives
1995 – Playstation ($300M investment)
2000 – Playstation 2
2006 – Playstation 3
annual autumn open houses, which are held to show the public how safe the work going on there is, are bored with the displays of simple photographs and static equipment.
His idea is to use a small analog computer in the lab to graph and display the trajectory of a moving ball on an oscilloscope

8. Microsoft Timeline
Paul Allen and Bill Gates develop a BASIC Interpreter for Altair 8800.
1976 – Microsoft formed
1981 – IBM PC released w/ Microsoft DOS
1985 – Microsoft Windows
1990s- Collaborates w/Sega on Dreamcast WinCE
1990s – Home and Entertainment Group formed
Age of Empires series, Combat Flight Simulator, Crimson Skies, Metal Gear Solid, etc.
1999 – Xbox planned
2001 – Xbox US release
2002 – Xbox Live
$1.2 billion in losses through 2/2005
2005 – Xbox 360
The Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) develop Altair 8800, the first personal computer. It is on the cover of "Popular Electronics" along with a lenghty article. The article catches Paul Allen and Bill Gates' eyes, and they develop a BASIC Interpreter for Altair.

9. Trivia Part 1
The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to implement online play over a phone line, calling the system Sega Net.
The Microsoft Xbox is the first system to completely support HDTV.
The Magnavox Odyssey (1972) contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42M transistors
The PlayStation 2 is the first system to have graphics capability better than that of the leading-edge PC at the time of its release.
The Nintendo N64 was first time that computer graphics workstation manufacturer Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) developed game hardware.
While the original Atari Football game was first created in 1973, it wasn't released until It was delayed because the game couldn't scroll the screen -- players couldn't move beyond the area shown on the monitor. When the game was finally released, it became the first game to utilize scrolling.
The Atari Pong console was the No. 1 selling item for the 1975 holiday season.
The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console (1976).

10. Trivia Part 2
The PlayStation 2 is the first video game system to use DVDs.
The Nintendo GameCube's 1.5G disc holds 190X more than N64.
On the market 1991 till 2004, the SNK NeoGeo AES has tied the Atari 2600 ( ) as the longest supported gaming console in history.
The Sega Genesis featured a version of the same Motorola processor that powered the original Apple Macintosh computer.
Mattel's Intellivison system, introduced in 1980, featured an add-on called "PlayCable," which delivered games by cable TV.
Nintendo's Game Boy is the most successful game system ever, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide.
In the 1980s, a service called Gameline allowed users to download games to the Atari 2600 over regular phone lines. It was not a success, but did form part of the foundation for AOL.
The first color portable video game system was the Atari Lynx, introduced in 1989 and priced at $149.
Introduced in 1993, the 3DO was the first video game system to be based entirely on CD technology.
The Sony PlayStation was originally intended as a CD add-on to the Super Nintendo. When licensing problems and other issues arose, Sony decided to develop the PlayStation as a machine of its own.

11. 6th Generation Consoles
Sony PlayStation 2
Processor 128-bit "Emotion Engine" 300 MHz
3.2 GB per second bus
"Graphics Synthesizer"
150 MHz, 4 MB VRAM
75 million polys per second
Audio: SPU2 (+CPU), 48 channels, 2 MB memory
RAM: 32 MB RDRAM
Proprietary 4.7-GB DVD and original PlayStation CDs
Drive bay (for hard disk or network inteface)
Controller: Two controller ports, "Dual Shock 2" analog controller
Other features:
Two 8MB memory card slots
Optical digital output
Two USB ports, 1 Firewire
Support for audio CDs and DVD-Video
Nintendo GameCube
Processor: "Gekko" IBM Power PC 485 MHz
2.6 GB per second bus
"Flipper" ATI graphics chip
162 MHz, 1 MB embedded texture cache 3 MB SRAM
12 million polys per second
Audio: Special 16-bit digital signal processor, 64 channels
RAM: 40 MB
Proprietary 1.5-GB optical disc
Controller: Four controller ports, Wavebird wireless controller
Handle for carrying
Two slots for 4-MB Digicard Flash memory cards or a 64-MB SD-Digicard adapter
High-speed parallel port
Two high-speed serial ports
Analog and digital audio-video outputs
Microsoft Xbox
Processor: Modified Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
6.4 GB per second bus
Custom nVidia 3-D graphics
250 MHz
125 million polys per sec
Custom 3-D audio processor
RAM: 64 MB UMA
Proprietary 4.7-GB DVD
10/100-Mbps Ethernet, 56K modem (optional)
Controller: Four game controller ports
8-GB built-in hard drive
5X DVD drive with movie playback
8-MB removable memory card
Expansion port

12. 7th Generation Consoles
Sony PlayStation 3
Processor: 3.2 GHz PPC w/ 7 SPEs codenamed "Cell“ 218 GFLOPS, 18 billion dot products per second
Memory: 256MB 3.2GHz, 256MB 700 MHz
GPU: RSX 550 MHz NVIDIA (based on G70 architecture), 1.8 TFLOPS (theoretical), 74.8 billion shader operations per second, 33 billion dot products per second, 255GFLOPs 32bit programmable shaders, Distinct Pixel & Vertex Shaders, SM3.0
Audio: 5.1 Digital
Controllers: Seven wireless devices over Bluetooth 2.0, Six USB 2.0 ports, Three Ethernet ports
Media: At least 2x (9 MB/s or 72 Mbit/s) Blu-ray Disc DVD, CD-ROM Detachable HDD, Memory Stick standard/Duo, SD standard/mini CompactFlash (Type I, II)
Storage: Detachable 2.5” 60 GB hard drive with Linux
Online Service: PlayStation Network Platform
Nintendo Revolution
Processor: Codenamed “Broadway” (IBM)
Memory: 1T-SRAM by MoSys
GPU: Codenamed “Hollywood” (ATI)
Audio: unknown
Controllers: Four wireless, devices over Bluetooth, Two USB 2.0 ports, Four GameCube Controller ports, Two GameCube Memory card ports
Media: Propreitary CAV 12 cm Revolution optical disk, 8 cm GameCube optical disk, DVD, CD-ROM, SD/MMC card
Storage: 512MB built in Flash Memory
Online Service: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, includes Virtual Console
Microsoft Xbox 360
Processor: 3.2 GHz PPC Tri-Core codenamed "Xenon" 115 GFLOPS 9.6 billion dot products per second
Memory: 512MB 700MHz shared between CPU & GPU, 10MB Embedded eDRAM
GPU: 500 MHz ATI, 1.0, 48 billion shader operations per second, 24 billion dot products per second, 240GFLOPs 32bit programmable shaders, Unified Shaders, SM MB eDRAM (internal bandwidth of 256GB/s)
Controllers: Four Wireless devices over 2.4 GHz RF, 3 USB 2.0 Ports, 1 Ethernet Port
Media: 12x (8.2–16.5 MB/s or 65.6–132 Mbit/s) DVD CD-ROM
Storage: Optional Detachable HDD, USB Mass Storage Devices
Online Service: Xbox Live