MikeB on 11 July 2008
@ jalsonmi
Mid-80's on was where the DOS based computer completely took over the market.
I just stated Commodore and Atari were big names around that period 1985-1986. Note Commodore also introduced Commodore PCs since 1984, entering the PC clone market themselves (though far behind IBM, they were one of the leading PC brands). Commodore PC-1 ,PC 10, PC-10 II, PC 20, PC-30 and PC 70 (in the end it's funny to note how they themselves contributed towards digging their own grave).
With regard to home usage, the c64 and then the Amiga were dominant home computer gaming platforms. Testament of this is the sheer amount of games released for these platform from 1982 to 1993 compared to PC releases. But computer gaming was especially popular in Europe, for the US the bulk turned towards the NES.
PCs only became popular as a gaming platform 1993 onwards. Like I said earlier, I agree with you the release of Doom had a major impact on the PC gaming market in December 1993. Many people upgrading resulted in PCs becoming far more viable for gaming.
