![]() There were 567 games officially released for the Apple II series. The Apple II was one of the first PCs to support 5.25-inch floppy disks that became the standard for games. ![]() The Apple II was state of the art with the ability to interface with color TVs and early EVGA Apple II monitors at an affordable price. The Apple IIe was in hundreds of schools across America by 1990 bringing educational classics like The Oregon Trail to bright-eyed school children that might otherwise not have access to a computer. The iconic Apple II hit the home PC market in 1977 and sold 5-6 million units before the line discontinued in November 1993. Read on and appreciate the greatness that was Apple II games. It blew the minds of the children and adults of the 1980s and they would still today… if only given half a chance. The creativity and downright genius of early software engineers to be able to pack epic levels of fun in such a limited technological box is simply amazing. ![]() That doesn’t mean the classic retro games of the Apple II are any less impressive. Since then, PC games have become hundreds of times more powerful and have reached levels of sophistication and realism that would boggle the mind of a kid back in 1985. ![]() For those of us growing up in the 1980s and privileged enough to witness the birth of PC gaming, it was a magical time. ![]()
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