2. Interesting Facts
Nintendo – established in 1889 as a playing card
company
Sony – started in 1947 as Tokyo Telecommunications
Engineering Company. Made first pocket-sized battery-
powered radio.
1951 - Ralph Baer suggests adding an interactive game to
TV. Management ignores the idea.
1954 – Service Games starts making coin operated
games. SErvice GAmes later becomes SEGA.
3. Interesting Facts
1958 - physicist Willy Higinbotham invents an interactive
table-tennis-like game that is displayed on an oscilloscope
1961 - Steve Russell creates Spacewar, the first
interactive computer game
1967 - Ralph Baer leads a team that creates an
interactive game that can be played on a TV screen.
25. Nintendo Gamecube
Introduced: November 18, 2001
Original Retail Price: $199
Number of Games: over 600
Metroid Prime
Super Smash Bros. Melee
26. Nintendo Gamecube
Super Mario Sunshine Resident Evil Zero
Mario Kart: Double Dash Mario Party 7
27. Microsoft Xbox 360
Introduced: November 22, 2005
Original Retail Price: $299/$399
Number of Games: about 155
Project Gotham Racing 3
Call of Duty 2
29. Sony Playstation 3 (PS3)
Introduced: November 17, 2006
Retail Price: $499/$599
Number of Games: about 40
Resistance: Fall of Man
NBA 2K7
30. Sony Playstation 3 (PS3)
Call of Duty 3 Need For Speed Carbon
Ridge Racer 7 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
31. Nintendo Wii
Introduced: November 19, 2006
Retail Price: $249
Number of Games: about 60
Mario Party 8
Excite Truck
32. Nintendo Wii
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Super Paper Mario
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz Wii Sports
33. Sources
GameSpot – The History of Video Games
http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov/index.html
Business Week – A Brief History of Video Game
Warfare
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/10/game_consoles/index.htm?chan=search