| Xelloss said: Shio, the first computer games were written in the 60's.... and existed on every model of device to some degree for pretty much all subsequent hardware. Do not forget, some early systems such as Commodore64, TRS 80, Apple etc... were all PCs. These launched mostly about same time as Atari, Commodores especially were huge in Europe (though a little later). PC in my mind is not limited to IBM/Intel compatible. I suppose it would be fair to say that console and PC gaming were popularized to the masses about the same time, but even in terms of mass market console did not pre date PC. Then there was the big crash of 83, which mostly effected the consoles, PC gaming kept going... NES released in 85..... but PC gaming was bigger for quite some time.PC gaming also kept alive the Western development market, it would be some time before western software made it back to the consoles in a meaningfull fashion. |
Read what I wrote: PC GAMING, PERSONAL COMPUTER GAMING. The first PC only came out in 1971, around the time consoles came. PC GAMING only started to exist in 1976.
Another thing is that PCs sold nowhere near consoles. In 1977 only 48k PCs were sold, while millions of consoles were being sold. In 1977 Console gaming was dozens of times bigger than PC gaming.
Before the 70's there were no PCs.
Commodore 64 was the best selling PC, and it sold 2 million. NES sold 60 millions...
