On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:53 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
For the Apple ][ [A] it looks like Rocket Pilot by Bob Bishop (of Apple-Vision fame ;-)) was possibly the first commercial game. The question is if Softape was asking money for the game. Scott Adams's Adventureland would also be a decent candidate for the first successful commercial game (that is, it sold enough to keep him in business for a number of years).Hugh Falk wrote:I don't even know what the first commercial game would have been.The first game you had to pay for for a personal computer.
[A] I believe the Apple ][ actually shipped before the Commodore PET, and both of these were announced before the TRS-80.
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Edward Franks
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