Re: earliest commercial game?

["Roger Johnstone" <bhmhome@es.co.nz>]

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


>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.
>
>Mike Westerfield

According to Steve Weyhrich's Apple II History
http://www.hypermall.com/History//index.html
the Apple II and Commodore PET were both introduced at the First West Coast
Computer Faire in April 1977. Of course this may have only been the official
introduction. It may have been first sold months before (or months after)
the official introduction.


Roger Johnstone
Invercargill
New Zealand
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