Re: earliest commercial game?

[Eric Le Bras <eric.lebras@steria.fr>]

> 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.

The PET 2001 was made by Commodore. I remember its angular and quite futuristic
(at the time !) appearance. It was a monolythic machine with keyboard and screen
soldered together having the aspect of a modern cash register. The keyboard
itself had very little transparent plastic keys, and a cassete recorder was
built in.

Other machines of the time were the TRS-80 by Tandy, and also the Sharp MZ80K,
the later having the same monolythic aspect as the PET.