Arcade Games The first ever arcade game made was Galaxy in 1971 by students in Stanford University. It was a coin operated game which means you require a coin to play the game. The best arcade games were Pac Man, Galaga, Pong, Star Wars, Ms Pac Man, Asteroids, Defender, Tron and much more. Arcade games are still famous now and some are still being made and people still play them. But through out the years it develops and changes into something new. Like the new updated arcade games but still has the vintage style into it. Back in the 1970’s when they play arcade games they tend to play with joy sticks and that’s how they used to control and play the game compare to now when we use wireless controllers and more advance compare to before.
Unit 14 pr1 development of gaming platforms
Jul 28, 2015
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Arcade GamesThe first ever arcade game made was Galaxy in 1971 by students in Stanford University. It was a coin operated game which means you require a coin to play the game. The best arcade games were Pac Man, Galaga, Pong, Star Wars, Ms Pac Man, Asteroids, Defender, Tron and much more.
Arcade games are still famous now and some are still being made and people still play them. But through out the years it develops and changes into something new. Like the new updated arcade games but still has the vintage style into it.
Back in the 1970’s when they play arcade games they tend to play with joy sticks and that’s how they used to control and play the game compare to now when we use wireless controllers and more advance compare to before.
Xbox GamesThe Xbox 360 began on March 30, 2005 with the second video game console developed by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony’s PlayStation 3. As of June 30, 2013 78.2 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold worldwide.
For the Xbox 360 the have games what the PlayStation 3 doesn’t have like Halo, Left For Dead, Need For Speed and much more.
The Xbox 360 has the aspects of a built in fan and a larger memory, new design with the touch to open the disk tray. Also with the controller more up to date compare to just using a joy stick. But now it’s a controller pad with more advance controls to it.
PlayStation GamesThe PlayStation 3 was released on November 11, 2006. The console was first officially announced at the electronic entertainment expo 2005. it was delayed several times until finally hitting stores at the end of the year. It was the first console to use Blu-Ray Disc. With the memory 20GB up to 500GB and new technology with a touch to turn on the console of with the Dual shock controller, PlayStation 3 with the new graphics of 1080p they made gaming more better for other people.
A further refined Super Slim design was released in late 2012, and made over 75 million PlayStation 3s have been sold worldwide. It’s a successor with the PlayStation 4 set for November 15, 2013 release.
With the PlayStation 3 they also have games of their own like Infamous 2, Kill zone, God of War, Little Big Planet, Grand Turismo, Heavy Rain and many more.
PC GamesThe first desktop computer produced and invented by the Italian engineer. It was launched at 1964.
Gaming PC’s are more advances compare to consoles and a lot more different like with the highest upgraded pc it could go up to more than 1080p and a huge memory that goes up to 2TB (Terabytes) and an upgraded RAM the PC is very responsive and could load up within seconds.
The range price can go up to with lowest price of £200 up to a highest range price of £20,000 or more. However while a gaming PC is built to achieve performance for actual maximize gameplay. The best game for is probably recommended for PC is the latest games since they are more up to date and better graphics and gameplay.
The controls for the PC is completely different compare to consoles since PC has a keyboard and a mouse. You move the mouse to guide a character and the keyboard to move your character.
Also a PC is connectivity available it could work as a wireless or wired but since it’s a desktop it connections would be more faster if its wired .
Hand-Held DevicesThe iPhone 5s includes the new Touch ID, built right into the home button and scans your fingerprint to unlock your iPhone 5s. Its also available to purchases from iTunes or the App Store.
A7 Chip with the A7 chip with 64 bit desktop class architecture delivers up to 2x faster performance. And the M7 coprocessor handles motion tasks to preserve battery life.
New 8MP iSight camera, the world’s most popular camera now has larger pixels and a larger f/2.2 aperture. You can also shoot in burst mode, record in 1080p HD video and create slow-motion effects.
Ultra-fast wireless iPhone supports more networks than ever before. So now iPhone users can experience fast download speed in even more places around the world.
Also their new update system the iOS7 with even easier to use with features like smarter multitasking, Airdrop and control centre. And it’s built specifically for the 64 bit architecture in iPhone 5s.
iCloud that stores your music. Photos, calendars, contacts, documents and more, and lets you share and access your content from all your devices.
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