[citation][nom]isamuelson[/nom] So, as much as people hate Apple (I myself have a droid, not an iPhone but I don't hate Apple), they really elevated the hobbyist computer to a new level that brought video gaming on the computer to the forefront. I had SO many games for my Apple it isn't funny. In fact, I will go and run the Apple emulator on my PC when I feel really nostalgic for games like Ultima, Wizardy, Karateka, etc. [/citation]
Apple computers has a much greater market share in the USA compared to the rest of the world. Apple 2 didn't mean anything for the rest of the world.
The same thing is still true today when it comes to Macintosh.
The "home computer" revolution for the "masses" didn't really start for real until 1983-84 and at that time it was the Commodore 64 and later the Amiga that were the big players.
And when talking about computer games even around the time of the when the Apple 2 was big in the US, Atari was probably the most important game system. The Atari 400 was released in 1979 (the video game system 2600 came even before that) and was much cheaper but with (for the time) great color graphics and it sold lots of units. Probably more people world-wide were playing games on the Atari systems at the time than on an Apple 2...