Re: earliest commercial game?

["Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com>]

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In article <38204C9D.9CFF744C@lexis-nexis.com>, John E Townsend
<utownje@lexis-nexis.com> wrote:


> Wasn't there a lo-res Pong game included on the original Apple II system
disks?

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.

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. :)

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