In the early
80's, processor power was limited to
8-bit commands and
addressing was usually 2 bytes: 64Kb. Games had to be very well thought out and coded to be
popular, for
graphics and
sounds were yet to become really interesting in themselves.
In an Age of Innocence, nearly anyone with a Commodore 64 could start writing games and swapping them over the primitive BBS's of the time.
Money and flash would soon replace creativity and the innocence would be lost...