The document discusses the history and development of different gaming platforms, including arcade games like Pac-Man in the late 1970s, early home consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey, popular consoles like the Xbox and Playstation, customizable gaming PCs from the 1980s, and modern handheld devices like the iPhone and Android phones. It provides details on the hardware specifications of some platforms, such as the triple-core Xenon CPU in the Xbox 360 and the quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor in Android phones.

1. Development of gaming platforms
by Keaton Bradley
Unit 14 PR1

2. Arcade games
• They came out in the late 1970’s
• Famous game son them are Pac-Man, space
invaders and computer space.
• the newer arcade games are the racing
simulators like fast and furious.
• They have 1080p display capability's, the
processor used is the Intel core i3.
• To control this you use a steering wheel and
pedals.

3. Gaming consoles
• The Magnavox Odyssey was the first
gaming console.
• The famous consoles are Xbox and play
station, the famous games are GTA V
, call of duty, battlefield and assassins
creed.
• The Xbox 360 uses a tipple core xenon
CPU, and the GPU is the ATI xenon.

4. Gaming PC’S
• They were first introduced in the 1980’s
• There isn’t really a famous pc because they are
usually custom built, but company's like razor and
Alienware build them and sell them, some famous
games on pc are Minecraft, Skyrim, League of
Legends and World of Warcraft.
• The processor capabilities can range from bad to
amazingly good, its also the same whit the display it
all depends on what you buy for the PC.
• With the PC you can play online with friends or play
offline by your self, the controls used are the
keyboard and mouse but with some games you can
connect controllers to play with.

5. Hand held devices (apple)
• The display capabilities of the apple devises are LED-
backlit IPS LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colours.
• The processor capability’s are not listed but it runs at
1.65 ghz.
• The iPhone has 3 different memory phones he 16G
32G and 64G.
• The connectivity on iPhones are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and
normal phone.

6. Hand held devices (android)
• Android are mainly Samsung phones and they are
linked with Microsoft.
• Android have the same way as iPhone to download
apps, android are also a open source and Google
backed them up in October 2012, there was
approximately 700,00 apps.
• The processor is quad-core 2.3GHz Krait Snapdragon
800 processor.
• The GPU is PoweVR SGX 544MP3