Atari was one of the first gaming companies to start out in the business. the name Atari comes from the Japanese language where it means, "to hit the target". In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, designed and built the first arcade game ever made, "Computer space".On June 27, 1972 Atari, Inc. was incorporated and the game that shaped the gaming industry into what it is today. the name of this game was "Pong". Pong featured simple two dimensional controls, where the object of the game was to hit the ping pong ball with your rectangle, and get it passed your opponent, to score points. Sadly Atari lost most of it's popularity after the video game crash of 1983, where a massive recession of the video game industry occurred from 1983 to 1985.

Sega is a Japanese multinational video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo Japan. Sega is widely renown for their popular game franchises such as Sonic the hedgehog, and Phantasy Star. Both of these games are actually quite different from each other. One is an action plat-former that reassembles Mario in many ways, and Phantasy Star, is an rpg type game. Sega developed and manufactured numerous home video game consoles from 1983 to 2001, but the financial losses incurred from their Dreamcast console caused the company to restructure itself in 2001, and focus on providing software as a third-party developer,

Capcom is a Japanese game developing company, that has created some of the gaming worlds most popular titles such as Resident evil, street Fighter, and the most relevant one Megaman. Not only has Capcom made, video games, they have also made live action film adaptations, of some of their series. In 2002 a film adaptation of the Resident evil video game was created and launched in theaters. Although it received negative reviews it manage to gross over 100 million dollars in theater.

Cyber Connect2, is a video game development studio, mostly known for its work on the .hack series, and the making of almost every Naruto game in the franchise. Cyber connect2 was first formed on February 16 1996 as "Cyberconnect" but on September 16, 2001 it was renamed "CyberConnect2". Right noe CC2 is working on they're next installment of the Naruto video game series, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate ninja storm revolution. Matsuyama the companies CEO and president expects the game to sell over 1.5 million copies worldwide.

Nintendo is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company headquartered in Kyoto Japan. Nintendo is considered the biggest video game manufacturers in the world. They've produced many different types of games, and many different consoles, that have topped the video game sales charts. The most popular game made my Nintendo is there famous Mario bros series, which became the most popular video game series in history. Along with Mario Nintendo has created many other commercial successes, such as the legend of zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, and Star Fox. Nintendo is known to have very strict rules on their games, and do not allow much for teen rated content in their games. No blood, no drug references, and no sexual content are allowed in any Nintendo made game. However they have let "M" rated games appear on their consoles such as, Conker's Bad Fur Day for Nintendo 64. Nintendo as proved them self to be a force that should not be reckoned with