The Commodore was so incredibly superior to it's competitors that it isn't even funny. 16 colors when IBM had 2 (black and green or amber.) Pc squeeker versus really nice multi-voice music and sound. Digitized speech! (remember Impossible Mission?)
S.A.M. (SoftwareAutomatedMouth) gave you text to speech with a 1Mhz cpu and 32K of usable ram.
If Jack Tramiel hadn't unknowingly borrowed money from an Israeli banking criminal. (Later went on to defraud others.) we would all be using Amigas right now.
If you compare IBMs to Amigas in 1986, it is laughable.
I am surprised nobody brought up all the cool C=64 porn that was made in this era! Here you go:
http://girls.c64.org/
Get VICE or CCS and play the old games, the best games, again. I am going to play M.U.L.E. again right now.
How come that game hasn't been made for IBM? It was the most addictive thing ever.
Spoink!