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.
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.