@MikeB:
Thanks for the numbers. What you're saying, though, it pretty much what I was saying. Mid-80's on was where the DOS based computer completely took over the market. I don't dispute at all that Commodore had a hold on the market in the period you mention, but since your thread started by being about what was being said on internet BBs in 1985, I thought you were arguing Commodore still had a leg up in some way at that point, which they of course didn't. (There was also your comment on Doom's effect in 1993 in making PCs do better than Amigas) I'm not saying this stuff to criticize you, just to point out why I was arguing what I was arguing.
Anyway, I think it's a bit of a chicken/egg thing. PCs became the dominant gaming home computers because they were so widely adopted, rather than the other way around (that PCs started becoming widely adopted because of video games, especially Doom).
My consoles and the fates they suffered:
Atari 7800 (Sold), Intellivision (Thrown out), Gameboy (Lost), Super Nintendo (Stolen), Super Nintendo (2nd copy) (Thrown out by mother), Nintendo 64 (Still own), Super Nintendo (3rd copy) (Still own), Wii (Sold)
A more detailed history appears on my profile.
