Yeah, but not everyone would have had access to those, and most people wouldn't have, at least until the C-64 started to become popular/affordable. Maybe if you were a university student with specific reason to access the school's mainframe, maybe you could play Mines of Moria, but the rest of us were lucky to have an Atari 2600 with 2 or three games.
And from what I can gather, the schools used to charge computer access per minute.
There have been ("micro")computer proper games since the 1970s.
Yeah, but not everyone would have had access to those, and most people wouldn't have, at least until the C-64 started to become popular/affordable. Maybe if you were a university student with specific reason to access the school's mainframe, maybe you could play Mines of Moria, but the rest of us were lucky to have an Atari 2600 with 2 or three games.
And from what I can gather, the schools used to charge computer access per minute.
I mean, the "microcomputers". Ever since likes of the Apple I. The Atari 800 was launched already in 1979.