The earliest copyright I have for a Scott Adam's Adventureland is 1980. Unless someone knows of an earlier one, that's definitely not the first. I'm guessing there is an earlier version out there.
Do you know what year Rocket Pilot was copyrighted? TRS-80 was released in August 1977 PET 2001 and Apple II were also released in 1977 (unsure of the months) Regardless, they were all released close enough to each other that the first commercial game could have actually been released on any of the systems (although my money is on Apple). Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Edward Franks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1 On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:53 PM, Jim Leonard wrote: > 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. 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). [A] I believe the Apple ][ actually shipped before the Commodore PET, and both of these were announced before the TRS-80. -- 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/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/[email protected]/
