My Dad purchased an original IBM PC, I thought in 1981, for his office. He was excited to show it to me, and I was excited to see it, until I discovered he hadn't bought it with the Hercules graphics card necessary for anything fun.

I specifically remember that Flight Simulator, a 'game' I'd read about in Creative Computing, required the Hercules graphics card. (For the sake of this discussion I'm considering Flight Simulator a game.)

BUT, my memory might be wrong in a couple of ways. According to this page: http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/msfs1-pc.htm, the game came out in 1982, not 1981. Also, it looks to me like the game required CGA rather than specifically requiring a Hercules graphics card. I wasn't 'into' PCs then - was the Hercules card a CGA card?