The first home computer to sell a million units was the Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit unit hawked by Star Trek star William Shatner and released on the market in 1980.

Im not kidding go check out this old 1980 TV commercial - Commodore VIC-20 ad with William Shatner -> https://youtu.be/UK9VU1aJvTI


The VIC-20 was the first inexpensive color computer available, costing less than $300. It can only display 22 characters of text per line, so its use for business applications is minimal, but people loved it for games - it has good color, a joystick port, and it was cheap.

The VIC-20 is also the first computer ever to sell over 1 million units, just a few months ahead of the Apple II 1 million mark, and production of the VIC-20 was up to 9000 units a day, with sales reaching $305 million. The price of a VIC-20 eventually dropped to less than $100, the first color computer to do so.

The VIC in VIC-20 stands for Video Interface Chip. This chip was designed by Commodore two years prior for video game machines, never intending it for use in their own computer system. Unfortunately no one wanted it, so Commodore engineers designed the VIC-20 computer around it.

My back story was I first played this at my old high school playing this before class time as over 10 was hooked up in one room and years after I got the C64 some of these older Vic-20 was given away for free as they switch to IBM PCjr and still have all the games I got for free.

Many games was launches with the Vic-20 in cart, floopy and tapes but Ill be just focused on carts and there was 15 came out in 1980

Adventure Land Adventure

Alien

Avenger

Jelly Monsters

Jupiter Lander

Midnight Drive

Mission Impossible Adventure

Mole Attack

Pirate's Cove Adventure

Poker

Radar Rat Race

Slot

Star Battle

The Count Adventure

The Sky is Falling

Voodoo Castle Adventure