alt Hacker NewsMy point is that C's popularity quickly outgrew the popularity of UNIX, especially during most of the 1990s before Linux made UNIX accessible to us "PC peasants". Most 1990s PC games were written in C, and C was also the dominant high level language on 16/32 bitters like the Amiga or Atari ST.
Nope, they were mostly written in Assembly.
On the consoles it took until PlayStation for C to take off among game devs.
Additionally many Amiga games used Blitz BASIC and AMOS.
Anyone involved in the Demoscene early days would be 100% Assembly as well.
On PC, it required until Watcom with its great MS-DOS extender for devs to finally move away from Assembly in mass.