[billyjobob]

Like most kids in the 80s I would never “exclude gaming” from my evaluation.

The PC was 15x as expensive as the C128 and still wasn’t any good for gaming. While C128 had the entire C64 games library available!

It also had the CP/M software library and could run productivity software in 80 columns. Yes CP/M software wasn’t as good as DOS software, yes your spreadsheets didn’t calculate as quickly, but for a couple of years the C128 was the best option, until the Amiga came along.

The Amiga was certainly the best option in 1988. Arguably it was the best until about 1995.

[Gormo]

Of course, DOS had completely caught up in the gaming space within 3-5 years.