PC
The first Tomb Raider game was release for several platforms, one of which was the PC.
History
Today the abreviatin "PC" is mostly used as a synonyme for the IBM compatible comouter. The history of that began in the early 1980s. The first IBM PC XT was sold in 1981 for over 1.000 $. Back than it was nothing more than a better typewriter and it was mostly used in business. The application that was one of the reasons for the big success was a spread sheet calculation called VisiCalc.
The original IBM PC XT was based on a Intel 8086 processor.
The success of the IBM compatible PC is based on the fact that it has always been a more or less open system. It was possible for other manufacturers to build "compatible" computers for less.
Games
The first games on the PC were nothing more than moving blocks in text mode. There was not much one could do with 80x40 text blocks. So adventures mainly consisted of text. After that came CGA (color graphics adaptor) which could display 4 coulors at 320x200 pixels. The first 2D adventures were written for this graphics card. Everything was very blocky but even though a huge success. Still you had to interact with by typing text. After that came EGA and VGA, adding more coulor and higher resolutions, and adventure games started to use the mouse.
Around the early 1990s the first acceleration cards appeard. At first these were seperate cards that had to be plugged in to the computer in addition to the VGA card (Voodoo), but soon the 3D accelleration was added to the VGA cards.
