I can see why there might be a temptation to think that TB was the reason: after all, the DOS games were huge hits and a section of the gaming community was (and still is, to some extent) extremely vocal about it all being due to turn-based because harking back to The Golden Age Of Video Games™ etc and so on. They sold because they were good, and speaking personally, in spite of them being turn-based rather than because of it. Which is as subjective an opinion as anyone's, in addition to not being any better at any other form of combat nor tactics, but I play RPGs to, well, role-play rather than it just being about fighting and strategy.
