Eudimorphodon
Veteran Member
Can you express the number of major releases for the C64 the 1990's as a percentage of all major releases for the C64? If it's a big number like 10%, I'll agree the C64 was still in its prime. If it's a small number, say 5%, then I'd say it's still doing amazingly well for its age. If it's around 1-2% then I think we can conclude that the C64 was in its dying years. That's why I provided the releases as a percentage, not as an outlier. I'll accept ports in that figure also. Seeing the graph gives a good feeling for the platform's actual life.
Maybe I’m blind, but where exactly is this graph you’re demanding I produce for the Commodore 64 in that article about the PC-88? Moby Games lists 319 games released for the C64 in 1990, verses 909 in 1984, 622 in 1987, and 107 in 1993. So, sure, obviously it’s tailing off, but that 319 figure is still a 1/3rd of the output for the machine the year it actually single-handedly outsold *all* PC clones in the United States.
Moby Games lists 556 *total* titles for the PC-88 platform, 57 of which are from 1990. That number drops to 20 the next year, and 1992 is the last year listed before the 21st century with *3* releases. Coincidentally peak year for the PC-88 was also 1984, with 92 releases.
These figures aren’t helping your case much, at all. All they show is the PC-88, clearly a machine with something of a cult following based on the relatively small total software base, had a somewhat flatter curve through the very end of its life than the *extremely* mass-market/mainstream C64 did. These are not surprising results. They in fact make it crystal clear that 1990 was the PC-88’s last “good“ year, not that it was in anyway viable into the 1990’s for *anything*.
I was still playing a huge pile of pirated Atari 800 software into the 1990’s despite having a 486 in the house, why are you assuming these hardcore porn gamers (a fair number of the late PC-88 games are NSFW) used their obsolete Z80 machine as their real computer based on *game sales*? *You* have to make that case if you want to claim the world made some kind of mistake abandoning CP/M “too soon”.
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