Yeah but VGA wasn't popular until at least '90 and EGA probably not much earlier, around '88 maybe (before that you'd probably be more likely to have a c64 than

Yeah but VGA wasn't popular until at least '90 and EGA probably not much earlier, around '88 maybe (before that you'd probably be more likely to have a c64 than a better-than-CGA PC compatible). Most people didn't have state of the art computers, a PC AT with EGA & color monitor costed close to $10k in 1984 (1980s dollars!). Going to the mall to play on a color monitor was a thing kids were doing back then. Can't speak much about Tandy as I think these were mostly only popular in America. In Europe you'd still be playing mostly in CGA well into the 2nd half of the 80s, and the only popular PCs until close to the end of the decade were cheap XT clones with CGA at most, or monochrome Hercules more commonly. Anyway I'd concede that it would have probably made a big difference to graphics fidelity in the very late 80s or early 90s. But I think a lot of people forget that warp-speed improvement of PC hardware and plummeting prices were more a 90s than an 80s phenomenon - in most of the latter we were still in the flat stage of the S curve!