The casual link is nigh-impossible to prove. However, Bungie started as a Mac shop, and Stardock started as an OS/2 shop. It's possible to make the claim that

The casual link is nigh-impossible to prove. However, Bungie started as a Mac shop, and Stardock started as an OS/2 shop. It's possible to make the claim that had more commercial games been available to these relatively small platforms in the 90s, there wouldn't have been enough space for these game companies to emerge. As I said, I can't prove that. It's quite possible these companies would have been successful anyway.