Editing IBM PCjr (section)

===Announcement===
IBM announced the PCjr on November 1, 1983, at its [[590 Madison Avenue|New York City headquarters]] with an enormous amount of advance publicity, including live news coverage of the event.<ref name="ruby198402" /><ref name="halfhill198401">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/1984-01-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_044_1984_Jan#page/n45/mode/2up | title=IBM's New PCjr | work=Compute! | date=January 1984 | access-date=October 30, 2013 | author=Halfhill, Tom R. | pages=44}}</ref>

Experts predicted, according to ''[[The Washington Post]]'', that the PCjr would "quickly become the standard by which all other home computers are measured"<ref name="wp19831106">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3360554// | title=IBM PCjr leads the way for industry | work=The Pantagraph | date=November 6, 1983 | agency=The Washington Post | access-date=October 6, 2015 | pages=E6}}</ref> and estimated sales of one million or more in 1984,<ref name="pollack19831102">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/02/business/the-debut-of-ibm-s-junior.html?pagewanted=all | title=The Debut of I.B.M.'S Junior | access-date=February 25, 2011 | author=Pollack, Andrew | date=November 2, 1983 | work=The New York Times}}</ref> expecting the PCjr to change the home-computer market in a similar way to how the IBM PC had changed the business-microcomputer market.<ref name="ruby198402" /><ref name="mccarroll19841224">{{cite magazine|author1=McCarroll, Thomas|author2=Philip Elmer-DeWitt|date=December 24, 1984|title=A Flop Becomes a Hit|magazine=Time|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951424,00.html|url-status=dead|access-date=February 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514070332/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C951424%2C00.html|archive-date=May 14, 2009}}</ref>{{r|halfhill198401}} They predicted that the PCjr would extend IBM's dominance, with customers able to use the company's computers in the home and in the office.<ref name="burton198303">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wCiNAUEuAMC | title=Anatomy of a Colossus, Part III | work=PC | date=Mar 1983 | access-date=March 30, 2014 | author=Burton, Kathleen | pages=467}}</ref>{{r|nyt19831102}}{{r|wp19831106}} [[Texas Instruments]] left the market four days before IBM's announcement, after losing {{US$|223 million}} in nine months against Commodore{{r|ap19831102}}{{r|time19831107}}<ref name="maceti19831121">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uy8EAAAAMBAJ&q=ibm+peanut&pg=PA22 | title=TI retires from home-computer market | access-date=February 25, 2011 | author=Mace, Scott | date=November 21, 1983 | work=InfoWorld | pages=22, 27}}</ref> by selling its [[TI-99/4A|99/4A]] for as low as {{US$|long=no|99}}.<ref name="cook19840306">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZhoP0KRkQe4C | title=Jr. Sneaks PC into Home | work=PC Magazine | date=March 6, 1984 | access-date=October 24, 2013 | author=Cook, Karen | pages=35}}</ref>

Developers began creating PCjr software in 1982.{{r|maher20130718}} [[Sierra On-Line]], [[Software Publishing Corporation|SPC]], and [[The Learning Company]] were among those that produced games, productivity, and educational software as [[Launch game|launch titles]],{{r|pollack19831102}}{{r|wiswell19840124}} using detailed IBM production outlines{{r|rosenberg19840424}} <ref name="sanger19840422">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/22/business/the-heady-world-of-ibm-suppliers.html |title=The Heady World of I.B.M. Suppliers |last=Sanger |first=David E. |date=April 22, 1984 |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 2, 2017 | page=Section 3, Page 1 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |author-link=David E. Sanger}}</ref> under a policy of strictly enforced security.<ref name="rosenberg19840424">{{Cite news |title=The Secret World of IBM |last=Rosenberg |first=Ronald |date=April 24, 1984 |work=The Boston Globe}}</ref>

The PCjr's graphics and sound features were superior to the PC's,{{r|nortonpcjraudio19840124}}{{r|shea19840312}}{{r|pollack19831102}} and ''PC Magazine'' speculated that "the PCjr might be the best game machine ever designed".<ref name="wiswell19840124">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSzKzjWHeVEC&pg=PA142 | title=Coming Soon: Games For The PCjr | work=PC | date=January 24, 1984 | access-date=January 26, 2015 | author=Wiswell, Phil | pages=142–145}}</ref> Prominent among launch titles was Sierra's [[graphical adventure]] ''[[King's Quest I]]'', much of whose {{US$|long=no|850000}} budget was paid by IBM.<ref name="maher20130718">{{cite web | url=http://www.filfre.net/2013/07/the-unmaking-and-remaking-of-sierra-on-line/ | title=The Unmaking and Remaking of Sierra On-Line | publisher=The Digital Antiquarian | date=July 18, 2013 | access-date=February 5, 2015 | author=Maher, Jimmy}}</ref>