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    [–] sartalon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    My mom worked at Software Etc in the 80's.

    There were so many more, and better games, for PCs.

    The only good games on Mac were ones ported from PC.

    I was my mother's official "troubleshooter". If a customer returned a game, she gave it to me, to test.

    There were definitely a lot more PC games returned than Mac, but there was almost never anything wrong with them. Probably came down to individual setups.

    Which was Mac's strong point. There was no real diversity in hardware, so everything worked.

    But all the Mac games SUCKED compared to PC.

    Unfortunately, this was also when I was exposed to Ultima IV... and my homework never saw me again.

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

    Were you under the impression I don't believe there were pc games back then? I didn't say that, also, funny enough you say

    The only good games on Mac were ones ported from PC.

    But the only games I specifically named actually were on Mac first then later ported to DOS.

    [–] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    Someone clearly never played Dark Castle