It's interesting that there really wasn't much of a "game video" option for early PCs. CGA was a disaster, and the PC platform never really got sprites or smoo

It's interesting that there really wasn't much of a "game video" option for early PCs. CGA was a disaster, and the PC platform never really got sprites or smooth scrolling until it wasn't relevant anymore. The PCjr/Tandy graphics system offered a few more colour options, but that's about it. Obviously, you couldn't buy a hundred thousand GTIA or VIC-II chips and solder them into ISA cards, but there were some non-exclusive options-- the graphics chips used on MSX hardware, for example. There were definitely low-end PCs that would have been able to tread into the "home computer" space occupied by the C64 and Atari 800, by price and design (there were a few 8088-class "PC in the keyboard" designs-- some Tandy 1000s, and a Vtech/Laser one come to mind), but they were hardly the ones kids were gonna beg their parents for with those mediocre graphics.