Re: earliest commercial game?

["Dain Neater" <dneater@inebraska.com>]

Could it be "Little Brick out" that came on the system disks.


Dain Neater

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In article <7vpqur$3a9$1@news.rt66.com>, "Mike Westerfield"
<MikeW50@aol.com> wrote:


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> In article <38204C9D.9CFF744C@lexis-nexis.com>, John E Townsend
> <utownje@lexis-nexis.com> wrote:
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>> Wasn't there a lo-res Pong game included on the original Apple II system
> disks?
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> I think we're thinking of the same one. I'm not sure, but it might have even
> been written in Integer BASIC. In any case, I do believe it was out long
> before floppy disks.
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> Now that I think about it, I'm also not sure if something that comes with
> the computer is really a commercial game.  I leave that for others to
> decide. :)
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> Also, as a point of history, while the Apple II certainly blazed trails in
> the early computer industry, it was definitely not the first home computer.
> There were several famous kits available earlier.  The first out-of-the-box
> computer wasn't an Apple II, either.  The first one I remember that deserves
> the name was the Pet; I don't remember who made it anymore.  I suspect the
> title of first commercial game for a home computer would have to go to that
> machine, too.
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> Mike Westerfield