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by jhbadger 1233 days ago
Some of the very first computer games such as the Infocom text adventures (Zork, etc) were VM-based. That was because there were like a dozen incompatible home computers in the 1980s and writing their games to target a VM meant they just had to write a VM interpreter for each platform and all of their games were ported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine