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Microsoft Entertainment Pack

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Microsoft Entertainment Pack
Cover art for Pack 1
Developer(s)Microsoft
Publisher(s)Microsoft
Designer(s)Robert Andrews
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Game Boy Color
Release1990 (Pack 1)
1991 (Pack 2)
1991 (Pack 3)
1992 (Pack 4)
1994 (The Best of)
May 30, 2001 (GBC)[1]
Genre(s)Various
Mode(s)Single-player

Microsoft Entertainment Pack, also known as Windows Entertainment Pack[2] or simply WEP, is a collection of 16-bit casual computer games for Windows. There were four Entertainment Packs released between 1990 and 1992. These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. In 1994, a compilation of the previous four Entertainment Packs were released called The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack. A Game Boy Color version was released in 2001.

Microsoft advertised Entertainment Packs for casual gaming on office computers. The boxes had slogans like "No more boring coffee breaks" and "Only a few minutes between meetings? Get in a quick game of Klotski". The marketing succeeded; Computer Gaming World in 1992 described the series as "the Gorillas of the Gaming Lite Jungle", with more than 500,000 copies sold.[3]

Minesweeper from pack 1 was later bundled with Windows 3.1, and FreeCell was included in Windows 95. WinChess and Taipei, both written by David Norris,[4] received remakes in Windows Vista, called Chess Titans and Mahjong Titans, respectively. Mahjong Titans was replaced with Microsoft Mahjong in Windows 8. Microsoft Solitaire Collection also includes versions of Tut's Tomb (as Pyramid) and TriPeaks.

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List of games

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4

The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack

The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack is a collection of 13 games from previous Entertainment Packs. A Game Boy Color version was released in June 2001 in North America and August 2001 in Europe.[6][7] It was developed by Saffire and published by Classified Games in North America and Cryo Interactive in Europe.

Development

Microsoft Entertainment Pack was designed by the company's “Entry Business” team, whose job was to make Windows more appealing to homes and small businesses. Ex-Microsoft product manager Bruce Ryan said the company did this because it "was concerned that the operating system’s high hardware requirements meant that people would only see it as a tool for large enterprises".[8] The project had "almost no budget", and no major video game publishers got involved because they doubted Windows' legitimacy as a gaming platform; therefore Ryan compiled a series of games that Windows employees had been working on in their spare time.[8] According to Microsoft FreeCell developer Jim Horne, the packs were not copy protected so customers could distribute copies to friends, to encourage using Windows for games. As payment, each author received ten shares of Microsoft stock.[9]

For much of the early 1990s, the Gamesampler, a subset of the Entertainment Pack small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as a free eleventh disk added to a ten-pack of Verbatim blank 3.5" microfloppy diskettes. Games on the sampler included Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Tetris, and Skifree. A "Best of" disk of several of the games was also available at times as a mail-in premium from Kellogg's cereals.[10]

All games being 16-bit run on modern 32-bit versions of Windows but not on 64-bit Windows. Support for all versions of Microsoft Entertainment Pack ended on January 31, 2003.

In the copies of Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code which leaked in 2004, there are 32-bit versions of Cruel, Golf, Pegged, Reversi, Snake (Rattler Race), Taipei and TicTactics.[11] However, FreeCell and Minesweeper have had official 32-bit versions bundled even with early versions of Windows NT.[12][13] The original game developers of some of the games such as SkiFree,[14] TriPeaks,[15] and WordZap[16] now offer 32-bit versions. Third party developers have also created 32-bit freeware clones of Klotski,[17][18] TetraVex,[19] Rodent's Revenge,[20] Tetris,[21] and Taipei.[22]

Reception

Digital Trends noted, "For many, the simple but enjoyable games found in the Entertainment Pack provided a first taste of early PC gaming and served as a gateway to more complex classics."[23] PC World described the pack as having "standout time-wasters".[24]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Included in Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack
  2. ^ a b c Bundled in some later versions of Windows

References

  1. ^ "EBgames.com - Game Boy Advance". June 4, 2001. Archived from the original on June 4, 2001. Retrieved October 8, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Simon, Barry (April 14, 1992). "Windows: It's a Fun Place to Mouse Around". PC Mag. 11 (7): 477–478. ISSN 0888-8507. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  3. ^ "Welcome To Gaming Lite". Computer Gaming World. September 1992. p. 74. Retrieved July 3, 2014.
  4. ^ "Chessprogramming - Ziggurat". Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  5. ^ Horne, Jim (September 12, 1991). "Life Genesis (Game of Life)". Microsoft Corp. Retrieved June 12, 2022 – via Internet Archive. The object of the Game of Life is to remove all the red cells from the grid. The computer will try to remove all the blue squares. You and the computer take turns adding and deleting cells.
  6. ^ "Microsoft: The Best of Entertainment Pack preview". IGN. Ziff Davis. June 9, 2000. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
  7. ^ "Microsoft: The Best of Entertainment Pack – Release Details". GameFAQs. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
  8. ^ a b Weinburger, Matt (August 18, 2015). "Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper, he used to sneak into a colleague's office after work to play". Business Insider Australia.
  9. ^ Dear, Brian (2017). "27. Leaving the Nest". The Friendly Orange Glow. New York: Pantheon Books. pp. 502–503. ISBN 9781101871560.
  10. ^ Vincent, Brittany (April 6, 2018). "Remembering SkiFree, and the Yeti that still haunts our dreams". PC Gamer. Future plc. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
  11. ^ "We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source". Kuro5hin.org. Archived from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2012. Alt URL
  12. ^ Petreley, Nicholas; Durlester, Nancy; Wonnacott, Laura (September 6, 1993). "Windows NT Advanced Server comes with a net hide-and seek game". InfoWorld. 15 (36): 67. ISSN 0199-6649. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
  13. ^ Norton, Peter; Kent, Peter (October 26, 1993). Peter Norton's Window's NT Tips and Tricks. Random House Electronic Publishing. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-679-79200-0. Retrieved June 19, 2022. In addition to Minesweeper and Solitaire - games with which you may be familiar from Windows 3.1 - NT also has FreeCell ( in the Games program group ).
  14. ^ Chris (February 10, 2010). "The most officialest SkiFree homepage". Ski.ihoc.net. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  15. ^ "TriPeaks Homepage". Rhogue.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  16. ^ "Classic WordZap". Wordzap.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  17. ^ "Klotski homepage". Phil.freehackers.org. Archived from the original on October 16, 2011. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  18. ^ "GitHub page for Klotski". Phillippe Fremy. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  19. ^ "Tetravex Game in Delphi". Delphi.about.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  20. ^ "Rodent's Revenge 2000". August 22, 2007. Archived from the original on August 22, 2007. Retrieved January 6, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  21. ^ "CrystalOffice Games". Crystaloffice.com. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  22. ^ "Taipei". github.com. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  23. ^ Jones, Brad (May 21, 2015). "Looking back on your favorite Windows time wasters with the guys who made them". Digital Trends.
  24. ^ Dingman, Hayden (April 20, 2015). "Classic puzzler Chip's Challenge and an unreleased sequel hitting Steam in May". PC World.

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