Microsoft Entertainment Pack
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Distributor(s) | Microsoft |
| Designer(s) | Robert Andrews |
| Series | Entertainment Pack |
| Platform(s) | Windows 3.x |
| Release date | 1990 |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack (WEP) was a collection of simply-designed computer games for Windows. These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. Many of the games were later released in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack. There were four Entertainment Packs in the original series.
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[edit] List of games
Here is a complete list of the original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack titles:
- Chess
- Chip's Challenge
- Cruel (a card game)
- Dr. Black Jack (a card game)
- FreeCell (a card game)
- Fuji Golf
- Go Figure!
- Golf (a card game)
- IdleWild (a screensaver program)
- JezzBall
- Jigsawed
- Klotski
- Life Genesis (based on the Life simulation by John Horton Conway)
- Maxwell's Maniac
- Pegged (a form of Peg solitaire)
- Pipe Dream (by LucasArts)
- Rattler Race
- Rodent's Revenge
- SkiFree
- Stones
- Taipei
- Tetravex
- Tetris (Windows version)
- Tic Tac Drop (a form of Connect Four)
- TicTactics
- TriPeaks (a card game)
- Tut's Tomb (a card game)
- WordZap
[edit] GameSampler
A version of the Entertainment Pack called the Gamesampler, small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as the 11th disk in a ten-pack by Verbatim for much of the early 1990s, allowing many users to acquire them as a freebie. 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.
[edit] See also
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection – a later collection for Windows 95
- Microsoft Arcade
- Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack
