Research Outline in 4 Slides

Gaming Hardware History

I have tried to describe the history and developments of gamehardware, but challenge anyone to prove me wrong as I have based most of this on what I could find on the internet and in Wikipedia.

Let me know if you think my dates are wrong or something important is missing.

I didn't take all the consoles into account, just the ones I feld were 'new' stepping stones in the development proces to the current generation of consoles....

Console	Year	Home Entertainment Systems & Software carriers
Generation
	1889	Nintendo founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi
1st Gen	1972	Magnavox
		Atari
	1975	Philips Telespiel
	1975	Microsoft corporation founded
	1976	Atari 2600
2nd Gen	1980	MS DOS software
	1980	Nintendo Game & Watch handheld games
	1981	IBM Personal Computer
	1982	Activision wins law suit
	1982	Atari 5200 computer
	1982	Introduction of MSX ASCII code
	1983	Nintendo Famicom (NES)
	1983	Commodore 64 Homecomputer (and multiple MSX's)
	1983	Invention of CD and CDROM
3rd Gen	1984	Apple Macintosh
	1985	Commodore 128
	1985	Windows 1.0 software introduced by Microsoft
	1985	Commodore Amiga
	1987	IBM PS/2
	1988	Sega Megadrive
	1989	Nintendo Gameboy monochrome
4th Gen	1989	Atari Lynx portable game computer
	1991	Introduction of Cdi
	1991	Super NES (Nintendo)
	1992	The end of MSX computers by Philips and Sony
	1992	Launch of Windows 3.1
5th Gen	1993	Atari Jaguar
	1994	Sega Saturn
	1995	Introduction of DVD
	1995	Introduction of Windows '95
	1996	Nintendo 64
	1998	Nintendo Gameboy color
	1998	Apple iMac design computers
6th Gen	1998	Windows '98
	2000	Introduction of Windows Millenium edition
	2001	Windows XP Home and Professional
	2001	Introduction of Gameboy Advance
	2001	Microsoft enters console market with the Xbox
	2003	Gameboy advance SP
7th Gen	2004
	2005	Gameboy Micro & Nintendo DS
	2005	Microsoft beats PlayStation in time with the Xbox 360
	2005	PlayStation Portable (PSP) launched in USA & Europa
	2005	PlayStation 3 hits the market
	2006	Nintendo DS Light (DS = Dual Screen)

For the complete history visit this websit http://www.thegameconsole.com/