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[Kriven]

Sonic, Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat have been on computers longer than many think, with the latter two released during the DOS era.

With MS-DOS. There's quite a few games that deserve more love and attention, due to being cult classics and obscure gems.
GOG.com sells some games from that era for decent prices. And unlike Steam, U-Play, and Origin, there's none of that DRM bullshit.

Not only that. Indie games were everywhere on Mac, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and DOS. So yeah, not really a new thing.
Team 17, best known for Worms, is one of the oldest Independent game developers around and still going strong.


Though I agree we need more on the Eshop and third-party games. Then again. Everyone moved away from Nintendo once the Playstation and Saturn came out due to their original and silly censorship policy. Sega had the better Mortal Kombat 1, though.
Now their systems have, of all things, R rated games on the Wii U. Funnily enough, Australia's first R rated game happened to be the Wii U port of Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge. We haven't had much problems with censorship lately, which is good. MKX is pretty full on with its gore.
Though Hotline Miami 2 has been banned so far due to the infamous rape scene. Absolutely disgusting! No one wants to see that!

Games have been on PC for ages, sure, but how many members of the casual audience even operated DOS? How many Steam profiles are there? How many individuals even owned a PC pre-2000 when compared with post-2005? How many major third-party developers treated PCs with the same respect as consoles? For how many of them was the PC port even 1/4 as significant as the SNES and Gen ports?

Worms and indies: It's not really fair to point at franchises which originated on and have lived the majority of tneir existence on PC with developers who primarily focused on console ports shifting serious attention to the PC.