I don't even know what the first commercial game would have been. It all depends on your definition of "Personal Computer." You could go back to the Altair or others that didn't have video screens. Games on those systems would have been personal computer games, but not "video" games. It would be great to know what the first commercial video game was on one of the big three from 1977 -- Commodore PET, Apple II, TRS-80. Anybody have an idea what the first commercial game was on each platform? Any idea which would have been first across all platforms?
The oldest commercial games I own have copyright dates from 1978: Air Traffic Controller -- 1978 for Tandy from Creative Computing Space Trek II -- 1978, 1979 for Tandy from Instant Software Of course, Empire has an initial copyright of 1978 because of its roots, but it wasn't comemercially available on a PC until much later (87 by Interstel). I have quite a few from 1979, but none before 78. Of course, in 79 Atari entered the market and PC gaming became big business. I've always considered 1979 the first great year for PC gaming. Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Edward Franks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] King's Quest 1 On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:14 PM, Jim Leonard wrote: > Edward Franks wrote: >> >>> 1. Adventure was the first computer game, yes? >> >> Nope. :) Space War was (circa 1960). MIT students meet the >> PDP-1 >> and the cathode-ray tube. > > I meant PERSONAL computer. Adventure was playable on CPM machines if > memory > serves; it was certainly the first game I ever played (on an Osborne) > in 1979. There was also a CP/M game called Ladder (platform jumping). If you include any BASIC games (Star Trek, Wumpus, etc.), then it would be difficult determining just what the first game was. The first commercial game would probably easier to figure out. > BTW, it is 90% certain RPG will join the main list of genres at > MobyGames, so > I thank all of you for taking time to illustrate your viewpoints. Cool. :-D > (But I am not budging on King's Quest being primarily IF+G, because > honestly > that is what it is. The input is all text (moving your character can > be done > with joystick but that is all a joystick can do in that game) and the > output > is text and graphics, so that pretty much clinches it.) I'm not fussed either way when it comes to King's Quest. -- Edward Franks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
