each containing a variety of significant milestones. Most histories of video games focus on the hardware requirements for the games, which frequently drove where and how the games were played,
it is equally possible to divide the history of games by the advances in software(and changes in the style of gameplay), the diffusion of games among the population (and the change in the playing audience), or the increases in economic power wielded by video games,measured by the other industries overtaken through the years. Regardless of the chosen path, as the history of video games developed, however, it became increasingly fragmented into specialty niches.