However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

* In 1995 an adventure game based on the series was released called Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity on the PC, with a PlayStation port being released in Japan.

He provided the voice of main character Jake Logan in the PC title, Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton in the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous in Megas XLR.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

Enthusiasts build their systems in order to produce a computer that will out-perform an opponent's computer, thereby " winning " in a contest ; to simply enjoy the best images and effects a new PC game has to offer ; or even simply to obtain the best possible performance at a variety of tasks.

The game was released on multiple platforms, Xbox 360, PS3 and PC as well as Mac OSX and is aimed as a competition to other FPS games such as the Call of Duty and the Battlefield series.

In the Aztec campaign of the PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, the player plays as Cuauhtémoc, despite the name Montezuma for the campaign itself, and Cuauhtémoc narrates the openings and closings to each scenario.

As the game is played, each PC changes over time and generally increases in capability.

If resurrection is not possible or not desired, the player may instead create a new PC to resume playing the game.

The Doctor V64 could be used to read the data from a game cartridge and transfer the data to a PC via the parallel port.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

In the 1980s PC game Moraff's World, the Holy Hand Grenade is a usable item that can be found in the dungeon stages.

Id was responsible for some of the biggest technological breakthroughs of video game technology for the PC ( running DOS and Windows ).

As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.

According to Eurogamer. net, " Id Software has been synonymous with PC game engines since the concept of a detached game engine was first popularised ".

As for Wolfenstein 3D, due to its use of Nazi symbols such as the Swastika and the anthem of the Nazi Party, Horst-Wessel-Lied, as theme music, the PC version of the game was withdrawn from circulation in Germany in 1994, following a verdict by the Amtsgericht München on January 25, 1994.

The series also inspired the PC game " Left Behind: Eternal Forces " and its sequels, " Left Behind: Tribulation Forces " and " Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist ".

In common usage, a " computer game " or a " PC game " refers to a game that is played on a personal computer.

Maxis ' most successful series to date and the best-selling PC game of all time is The Sims ( 2000 ).

* Napoleon Total War, a turn based / real time strategy game for the PC.

A central character in the PC role-playing game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura was named Nasrudin, an Elf wizard who was renowned for his great wisdom.

The Alien Beast monster seen in the Plutonium Pak also appears a few times in the standard levels where it wasn't in the original PC version at all.

* Alien Odyssey, 1995 ( PC CDROM )

The first CD-ROM games for PC ’ s developed by Housemarque were the space shooter game Super Stardust ( 1996 ), the adventure game Alien Incident ( 1996 ) and the shooter game The Reap ( 1997 ).

* Legacy of Kain: Defiance – ( 2003 ) ( PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC ) External collaboration with Crystal Dynamics

Since the series ended in 1996, a series of four TV movies were released between 1997 and 2003, a game created by Legacy Interactive was released for the PC platform in 2009.

** Legacy Plug and Play or PnP, a specific PC ISA bus extension technology

A number of Magnetic Scrolls ' staff went on to help develop a 3D role-playing video game entitled The Legacy: Realm of Terror, which was released on the PC to lukewarm reviews, but MicroProse did not capitalise on the Magnetic Scrolls name beyond that.

* The USS Defiant, Moscow, Valiant and São Paulo are selectable on the PC game Star Trek: Legacy in The Next Generation era.

So far there are three commercial computer games in which the Enterprise ( NX-01 ) is featured: Star Trek Online, which is a MMO available on PC, Star Trek: Legacy, which is available to PC and Xbox 360, and Star Trek: Encounters for PlayStation 2.

Since that time, Silicon Knights has moved from creating PC games to console titles, such as Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain for the original PlayStation.

* Elven Legacy, a 2009 PC video game

The brothers produced Legacy of the Ancients in 1987 for the Apple II & Commodore 64 ( and later the PC ), followed by its sequel Legend of Blacksilver in 1988.

The quality of the Amiga's sound output, and the fact that the hardware is ubiquitous and easily addressed by software, were standout features of Amiga hardware unavailable on PC platforms for years.

Acquiring enough XP allows a PC to advance a level, which grants the character improved class features, abilities and skills.

The version also features remixed music, some rearranged from the PC version and some original, in streaming XA-Audio made by Mark Knight.

This version was the precursor to the multimedia features available in Windows 3. 1 and later, and was part of Microsoft's specification for the Multimedia PC.

Even though the 3. 1x series still lacked most of the important features of OS / 2, such as long file names, a desktop, or protection of the system against misbehaving applications, Microsoft quickly took over the OS and GUI markets for the IBM PC.

The non beta release of Lightworks includes a host of new features for editors, and runs on wide range of PC hardware.

* Differences in culture and vision: Microsoft favored the open hardware system approach that contributed to its success on the PC ; IBM sought to use OS / 2 to drive sales of its own hardware, including systems that could not support the features Microsoft wanted.

Soon after the closure of the CLIÉ line, Sony stopped providing original installation drivers, including Sony's version of Palm Desktop for the CLIÉ, which are necessary for Hotsyncing with the PC and otherwise taking advantage of the handhelds ' many features for which a PC may be required.

As the computer market quickly became dominated by the IBM PC, this same portable design made it difficult for the program to add new features and affected its performance.

A Sega Mega Drive / Genesis version of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, with the first 5 missions, was also made by Russian homebrew programmers, but lacked sound and certain other features of the PC version.

They duplicated almost exactly all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers ' ability to reverse engineer the BIOS using a " clean room design " technique.

However, in order to provide maximum performance and leverage hardware features ( or work around hardware bugs ), PC applications quickly evolved beyond the simple terminal applications that MS-DOS supported directly.

It was intended to add some forward compatibility with USB and IEEE 1394, but was not universally adopted and only some notebooks have PC Card controllers with CardBay features.

A workstation class PC may have some of the following features:

The HP 300LX built a palmtop computer on the Windows CE operating system, but not until the form factor and features of the Palm platform were adapted that it was named the Pocket PC.

Standard features like PC card slots were absent.

The CD-i interactive multimedia CD player features a wired controller that is basically the original Gravis PC GamePad in a monochrome, grey color scheme.

* DirectX 10: The Future of PC Gaming Technical article discussing the new features of DirectX 10 and their impact on computer games

The main difference between the Poqet PC Classic and the Prime was the expansion of RAM from 512 to 640 KB and enhancement of the power management features.

It features a rechargeable battery pack that holds a smaller charge than the " Classic ", enhanced PC Card slots that now support more PC Cards, a transflective backlit LCD and 2 MB of RAM ( 640 KB to DOS, 64 KB shadow, and 1-1344 KB for a RAM disk ).

This is relevant for DOS 7, because various features introduced in MS DOS 7 ( a part of Windows 95 ) are not supported in PC DOS 7, and vice versa, e. g., MS DOS 7 does not support REXX, and PC DOS 7 does not support FAT32.

Other PC clones followed suit, most of which included hardware-specific DOS features, but some were completely generic.