1. The History Of Video Games

2. A tennis game was created by use of an oscilloscope by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the USA 1958

3. Spacewar was developed on a “PDP-1” at MIT in the USA 1961

4. Odyssey was launched, the first commercially available videogame for Television. It was very complex and very expensive 1972

5. Nolan Bushnell creates Pong and forms a company, Atari, to create video games

6. 1978 Taito creates Space Invaders

7. 1980 Pacman is released in Japan, to be played on a micro home computer.

8. 1985 Nintendo release the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)

9. The first hand held machine is released from Nintendo, called the "Game Boy" 1989

10. Sega releases the Sega Genesis 1989

11. Sonic is produced by Sega in response to Nintendo's Mario. 1991

12. Sony releases the Playstation in Japan 1994

13. Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64 1996

14. Dreamcast with its 128 bit processor is released in the UK. 1999

15. The Playstation 2 is released. 2001

16. In September, Nintendo releases the Gamecube 2001

17. In November, Microsoft enters the console market with the Xbox and Halo is released at launch, boosting sales hugely. 2001

18. In 2005 Microsoft released the Xbox 360 2005

19. In 2005 Sony releases the handheld PSP (Playstation Portable) in widescreen. 2005

20. In 2006 Sony releases the PS3 in order to compete with the Xbox 360 2006

21. References Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games Gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/features/universal/hov/ The Game Console: http://www.thegameconsole.com/