Attempts By Apple To Promote Gaming On Mac
Repeatedly through the history of the Macintosh, Apple have attempted to market the platform for gaming.
In April 1999, Steve Jobs gave an interview with the UK-based Arcade magazine to promote the PowerPC G3-based computers Apple were selling with then new ATI Rage 128 graphics cards, and describing how Apple was "trying to build the best gaming platform in the world so developers are attracted to write for it" and "trying to leapfrog the PC industry".
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