/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1118739

Apple II's had some good games - and even dominated the gaming market in the late '70s / very early '80s, when only the Atari 8-bit series was the alternative with any color worth a damn (and better sound) and didn't have as many people developing for it - but the Apple II barely registered in the home market because it was just so. fucking. expensive. and for no real good reason. Shit they were even offering IIe's above $1k after the far more powerful IBM AT came out

But as another anon pointed out, IBMs had jack shit for games in the early to mid '80s because they were absolutely business computers first; they didn't really start getting their game on until they became the defacto computing standard overall, over the '90s

I'm out of the mainstream though, my dad was a computer geek and we had an Apple II+ in the house and then a Laser 128EX clone and boxes and boxes of pirated games, many of them even good. We never had a console even though I fucking BEGGED for one when I saw an NES + SMB1 at a friend's house. not even an Atari 2600 or anything. We finally moved to PC compatibles sometime in the early '90s and that was all I gamed on then

Name some of your favorite games for this that aren't Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, Word Munchers, Number Munchers, Math Blaster, or other edutainment dreck.