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.

A similar solution was the 850 kbit / s DaynaTalk, a separate box which plugged in between the computer and a normal LocalTalk / PhoneNet box, and also offered as a PC expansion card that ran up to 1. 7 Mbit / s.

Early personal computers like the Apple II and the IBM PC integrated an internal backplane for expansion cards.

One of the key reasons for the success of the IBM PC ( and the PC clones that followed it ) was the active ecosystem of third-party expansion cards available for the machines.

Occasionally video interface hardware was also integrated into the motherboard ; for example, on the Apple II and rarely on IBM-compatible computers such as the IBM PC Jr. Additional peripherals such as disk controllers and serial ports were provided as expansion cards.

3Com's expansion beyond its original base of PC and thin Ethernet products began in 1987 when it merged with Bridge Communications.

* Quake Mission Pack: Scourge of Armagon ( 1. expansion pack ) – ( 1997 ) ( PC ) developed as Hipnotic Interactive

* Delta Force: Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre ( expansion ) – ( 2004 ) ( PC )

This is in addition to the hardware standard on the IBM PC, PC / XT, and PC / AT motherboards: keyboard interface, expansion slots, memory subsystem, DMA, interrupt controller, and math coprocessor socket.

) An IBM PC, XT or AT would require at least 4 expansion cards for similar hardware: one video graphics adapter card, one floppy disk controller ( FDC ) card, one serial and parallel port card, and one sound card with a joystick port.

Despite the 80286 processor, it was still an XT-class PC, not an AT-class PC, as it adapted the 80286 to operate over the same 8-bit data bus as previous Tandy 1000 models, and had 8-bit XT-style expansion slots.

* In the PC game Civilization III, included in the Play the World and Conquests expansion packs, Ragnar is the leader of Scandinavia.

* In the PC game Civilization IV, included in the expansion packs Beyond the Sword and Warlords, Ragnar is the leader of the Viking civilization.

The IBM PC was sold in high enough volumes to justify writing software specifically for it, and this encouraged other manufacturers to produce machines which could use the same programs, expansion cards and peripherals as the PC.

Even so, there were many expansion options, and despite the confusion of its users, the PC compatible design advanced much faster than other competing designs of the time, even if only because of its market dominance.

Desktops have several standardized expansion slots, like Conventional PCI or PCI express, while laptops only tend to have one mini PCI slot and one PC card slot ( or ExpressCard slot ).

PC Card was originally designed for computer storage expansion, but the existence of a usable general standard for notebook peripherals led to many kinds of devices being made available based on the form factor, including network cards, modems, and hard disks.

PC / 104 (- Plus ) or Mini PCI are often added for expansion on small form factor boards such as Mini-ITX.

" Similarly, PC Users review concluded, " The slow processor and lack of expansion slots on the Macintosh Classic offset the low prices.

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.

In 2006 the PC version was re-released with four other Star Wars games in a pack entitled Star Wars: The Best of PC.

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 ).

The Taito Legends pack includes an emulated version of the original arcade version of The NewZealand Story, allowing it to be played on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and any PC.

Ghost Recon: Desert Siege is a 2003 expansion pack, which is available for the PC as a separate purchase and can be unlocked as a new campaign in the PS2 version of Ghost Recon.

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder was released later in 2003 as an expansion pack for the PC and as a standalone game for Xbox.

The expansion pack is available for the Amiga and PC, while the sequel, Syndicate Wars is a PC-and PlayStation-only title.

The game was ported to numerous consoles and computer systems such as the Amiga, DOS based PC's, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Sharp X68000, FM Towns, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, PC Engine, Sega Saturn, PC, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and Game Boy Advance in an arcade 4 pack named Sega Arcade Gallery.

It has been omitted most likely due to the fact that it was only released for PC, as the trilogy pack was released for the PlayStation 2 as well.

The new models developed for the Dreamcast version of Half-Life would also be included in the PC version as the Half-Life High Definition pack.

He is also unlockable on the Nintendo DS version and part of the first DLC pack on the PC version.

The Dark Avatar expansion pack is the highest-rated expansion pack for a PC game on GameRankings.

It was released for the PC on April 3, 2005, as an expansion pack for Doom 3 and on October 5, 2005, for the Xbox video game console.

NPD sales figures for May, the first full month of Thrones and Patriots release in the United States, showed it as fourth in PC sales for the month, with its predecessor needed for the expansion pack going from twelfth in sales in April to fifth in sales in May.

PC Gamers Lee Buchanan wrote that it " soars above the pack of flight simulations ", and considered it to be " the most fun has had in a computerized cockpit ".

Related terms include music pack, which can refer to a demoscene music collection that does not include its own player, and chipdisk, a music disk containing only chiptunes, which have become popular on the PC given the large size of MP3 music disks.

An additional level pack / playable demo named 3D Lemmings Winterland was released for 3D Lemmings on the PC, which included six new levels featuring a winter theme.

Four months after the release of Tiberium Wars, an expansion pack was announced under the title Kane's Wrath, which was released on 26 March 2008 for the PC and 24 June 2008 for Xbox 360.

While developed by Treyarch, personnel from Gray Matter Interactive, who created the Call of Duty: United Offensive expansion pack for the PC, also worked with them on the game.

Bullfrog later released an addon pack for Hi-Octane which included additional features made for the Saturn version and was also released for the PC.