PC games have been around for as long as PCs have existed. They first emerged as text only games that were designed in an extremely clever way by some of the best game designers of the era. The games would involve a textual description of each scenario and pose the user with various options to choose from in order to take the next course of action. This selection had to be typed in and then based on that selection, the next event would occur which would again be described to the player in text. These games were heavily inspired by the board game Dungeons and Dragons, which relied on such similar textual description and player choices to take the game forward and describe the events. These games ruled the roost for almost a decade before the first visual games started coming up. A replica of the Tic-tac-toe was the most popular visual game designed during that era. Spacewar was also a very popular visual game that was designed and developed around this time to great reception by the public.
Post the creation of the first few visual games, the PC Gaming industry saw a turn towards visual games and soon textual games started fading away. In the mid 1980s, the development of the Macintosh and the Microsoft DOS allowed for the use of mouse controllers to be used in games. Thus a new set of ingenious games such as Dangerous Dave and Claw appeared and ruled the roost until one of the greatest games (Sea of Thieves download) ever created – The Prince of Persia hit the markets. The Prince of Persia used the multimedia capabilities of the PC to integrate sound into the game and created a stunning visual and audio experience that left the audience engrossed in the game for several hours on end. The popularity of Prince of Persia was so great that several other games and sequels have been created since and the franchise remains one of the most popular game franchises to this day.
Following Prince of Persia, one of the first racing games to hit the PC was Road Rash. The game mechanics was so good and advanced for its time that PC gamers still cherish and regularly play it even today! Other genres such as sports followed soon with EA Sports’ FIFA being the first Football game to hit the markets. The start of the 21st Century is where we shall leave the history of PC gaming as it can be considered the current era in PC gaming which is still evolving!