Ataxia is also the name of a disease in the Elder Scrolls console and PC games.

In October 2005, a version was released for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PC as part of the Taito Legends compilation of classic arcade games.

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.

Originally released for PC DOS, the games have later been ported to numerous other platforms.

* Dark Seed and its sequel, Dark Seed II, both adventure games for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Macintosh and the PC, were published by Cyberdreams.

With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.

Despite their work, Nintendo turned them down, saying they had no interest in expanding to the PC market, and that Mario games were to remain exclusive to Nintendo consoles.

The Konix Multisystem's design was later released independently by a Chinese company called MSC ( MultiSystem China ) as the MSC Super MS-200E Multi-System, although this was simply an inexpensive PC games controller, without any special internal hardware.

However, some games, such as the Halo series, ( except for Halo PC and Custom Edition, which allow AI and custom objects and characters ), allow filming only through puppetry.

Early PC games were distributed on floppy disks, and the small size of MIDI files made them a viable means of providing soundtracks.

Might and Magic is considered one of the defining examples of early PC role-playing games, along with the Bard's Tale, Ultima and Wizardry series.

Variants of Pascal have also frequently been used for everything from research projects to PC games and embedded systems.

This PC card came with two CDs of software to help the user program games for the PC-FX.

* 1987 – Roland MT-32: Also using Linear Arithmetic synthesis, it was supported by many PC games in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a high-quality music option until support shifted to General MIDI sound cards.

Apart from its reliability issues, the target business market was becoming wedded to the IBM PC platform, whilst the majority of ZX Spectrum owners were uninterested in upgrading to a machine which had a minimal library of games.

This particular distinction of first, second and third party developers does not generally apply to PC games development.

A Wallace and Gromit interactive CD-ROM game from circa 1995, named W & G: Cracking Contraptions, has been released for the PC, containing mini games based on the three original animated shorts as well as brief video clips, wallpapers, screen savers, and sounds that could be assigned as system sounds.

It is an extended port version of the game Worms 2: Armageddon which was released for the Xbox 360, and so it has returned to the original 2D format, unlike the last three PC games.

That company adapted the PDP-10 Zork into Zork I-III, a trilogy of games for most popular small computers of the era, including the Apple II, the Commodore 64, the Commodore Plus / 4, the Atari 8-bit family, the TRS-80, CP / M systems and the IBM PC.

MMORPGs, originating in the mid-to-late 1990s, become a popular PC trend and virtual online worlds become a reality as games such as RuneScape ( 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Eve Online ( 2003 ), Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided ( 2003 ), World of Warcraft ( 2004 ), and Everquest II ( 2004 ), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar ( 2007 ) and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning ( 2008 ) are released.

World of Warcraft, premiered in 2004, remains one of the most popular games in PC gaming and is still being developed into the 2010s.

Krisalis Software released an adaptation of Rogue Trooper for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1991, and the merchandising that accompanied the 1995 Judge Dredd film included tie-in games for the IBM PC ( MS-DOS ), Game Boy, Game Gear, PlayStation, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

The games were also exciting to the PC gaming community of the time because of John D. Carmack's smooth-scrolling graphics engine.

Seven official Commander Keen games were released for the PC under MS-DOS.

It would have consisted of all Keen games packaged together for Microsoft Windows and Pocket PC, but it never got out of the planning stages, and was never even officially announced.

Other manufacturers produced hybrid boards which contained an Intel x86 series chip, allowing the Amiga to emulate a PC.

* 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.

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.

It was announced in September 1988 by a consortium of PC clone vendors ( the " Gang of Nine ") as a counter to IBM's use of its proprietary Micro Channel architecture ( MCA ) in its PS / 2 series.

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.

When the PC was introduced in 1981, it was designated as the IBM 5150, putting it in the " 5100 " series, though its architecture was not directly descended from the IBM 5100.

In the PC / AT introduced in 1984, IBM added external circuitry as well as specialized code in the ROM BIOS to enable special series of program instructions to cause the reset, allowing real-mode reentry ( while retaining active memory and control ).

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 ".

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

* Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands, a 1996 PC based adventure game, the 11th in the 1977 Zork series

OS / 2 failed to develop much penetration in the consumer and stand-alone desktop PC segments ; there were reports that it could not be installed properly on IBM's own Aptiva series of home PCs.

A line of personal computers based on the PDP-11, the DEC Professional series, failed commercially, along with other non-PDP-11 PC offerings from DEC.

The second 3D game in the series was Worms Forts: Under Siege, for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.

Earlier versions of HP-UX supported the HP Integral PC and HP 9000 Series 200, 300, and 400 computer systems based on the Motorola 68000 series of processors, as well as the HP 9000 Series 500 computers based on HP's proprietary FOCUS processor architecture.

During this time, Minter released three games: Deflex, Hover Bovver 2: Grand Theft Flymo ( a reinterpretation of his own 1984 game, Hover Bovver ), and the PC / Macintosh game Gridrunner ++ ( the third title in the Gridrunner series ).

In many desktop computers, for example, the bootstrapping process begins with the CPU executing software contained in ROM ( for example, the BIOS of an IBM PC ) at a predefined address ( some CPUs, including the Intel x86 series are designed to execute this software after reset without outside help ).

Long before that, Sony had released a kind of development kit called the Net Yaroze for its first PlayStation platform, which provided a series of programming and developing tools to be used with a normal PC and a specially modified " Black PlayStation " that could be interfaced with a PC and download programs from it.

When the Gold card was finally released, the Sound Blaster series was entrenched as the de-facto PC sound card standard, and priced significantly cheaper than the Adlib Gold.

Black Isle Studios had planned a third series to be set in the Dalelands and be a PC exclusive hack and slash game with pausable real-time gameplay.

The game would not have been connected to the Bhaalspawn Saga series and was cancelled when Interplay forfeit the D & D PC License to Atari

* Chris Jones, software developer, and star of the Tex Murphy PC series