Re: earliest commercial game?

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"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, are you sure about that?  The PET was made by
Commodore.  It was an integrated unit, much like the
original Mac, but it had specifications similar to the
original Apple II.  Later, an improved model based on
the PET was released by Commodore called the CBM.
It had an 80 column screen and an improved BASIC.
An "Apple IIe" version of the PET, basically.

However, I was sure the Apple II came first.  When was
the PET released?

The neat thing about PETs and CBMs in my opinion
is that they could be networked easily.  Printers and
disk drives could be shared by many units.