Crash Course video discusses the video game market of the 1980s and takes us through the boom and bust history of game sales. [10:50]

This video focuses on PlayStation and its counterparts. By the mid-90s the video game industry was booming. In 1994, Sony introduced their PlayStation console which coupled cutting-edge technologies with great games. In the 90's the Sega...

This video lesson [8:56] focuses on the early 2000s innovation in hardware and games and one significant change, Internet connectivity. Sony's PlayStation 2, released in 2000, and Nintendo's GameCube, released in 2001, would also include...

This video [10:17] focuses on PC gaming. The personal computer is the precursor to the console, but it's not quite accurate to say that it just led to the console. PCs and the video games created on them have and continue to influence...

This final video [9:32] lesson on gaming focuses on the future of gaming. This episode is going to be a bit more speculative than we're used to, but we're going to do our best to recap what we've learned throughout this series and try to...

Find out if video games can be good for you, and if they can they make you smarter. [4:13]