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The first mass-produced commercial 8-Bit computer that allowed 8-Bit Gaming. It was a huge success thanks to the early popularity of the Apple I released a few years earlier which was the first computer with a monitor allowing consumers to see what they were programming.
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The Commodore 64 is still the highest selling computer to date and is one of the most famous PC's when talking about games thanks to the 8-Bit processor and the 64 Kilobytes of data that it boasts.
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The AdLib Sound Card was the first sound card to use real FM synthesis.
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NEC's PC-FXGA was the first 3D graphics card sold for home computers that allowed graphics that were better than Sony's Playstation and rivaled the polygon rendering of the Nintendo 64. This shift really put PC's back on the map in terms of PC vs Console gaming.
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The first Graphics card to use the branded term GPU.
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The FXG-1 was the first geometry processor that allowed transform and lighting capabilities. This piece of hardware may have actually laid the groundwork for modern day graphics cards like NVIDIA's GeForce.