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Re: Why doesn't the Apple II have a gaming community like C64, Atari, DOS, etc
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
The Apple II was promoted (locally anyway) by Apple to be a better
educational tool and less as a game system - the II's 80 column display was
superb - clean and very legible - next to the blotchy C64 and Atari displays.
Schools embraced the II and students seemed to associate the II with
education and the C64 and Atari with gaming. I think the sprites available
in those systems, made programming games easier and with a lot more colours
etc. The 8 bit Apple games seemed to be mostly blue and orange.
There are definitely Apple II gamers, myself being one, but I always
seemed outnumbered by my friends, who were almost solidly C64 and, to a
lesser extent, Atari.
That's why I see myself as an Apple user with the mind of a C64
user...because I always used the Apple as a game machine.
-uso.