Microsoft Entertainment Pack
The Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack ( WEP ) is a collection of simple logic computer games for Microsoft Windows 3.x . A total of four parts of the Entertainment Pack, a best-of and a puzzle collection were released. Microsoft also released a reduced version of its puzzle collection for the Game Boy Color portable game console from Nintendo . The game magazine Computer Gaming World put the sales of Entertainment Packs 1–3 in its September 1999 edition at 500,000 copies and described them as the leading product in the field of simple computer games ( gaming lite category ).
Overview of the games
The following games were included in the original parts of the Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack :
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows
- Cruel
- Golf (solitaire)
- IdleWild (Screensaver Collection)
- Minesweeper
- Pegged
- Taipei
- Tetris (version for Windows)
- TicTactics (extended Tic-Tac-Toe game)
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2
- Pipe Dream (by LucasArts )
- FreeCell ( Solitaire )
- IdleWild (Screensaver Collection)
- Jigsawed (picture puzzle game)
- Ratter Race
- Rodent's Revenge
- Tut's Tomb (Solitaire)
- Stones
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3
- Fuji Golf (simple golf simulation)
- Klotski (puzzle)
- Life Genesis (implementation of Conway's Game of Life)
- SkiFree
- Tetravex
- TriPeaks ( Solitaire )
- WordZap (word game)
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4
- Chess (chess game)
- Chip's Challenge
- Dr. Black Jack (card game)
- Go Figure!
- JezzBall
- Maxwell's Maniac
- Tic Tac Drop (Match Four)
- The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack
- Chip's Challenge
- Dr. Black jack
- Freecell
- golf
- JezzBall
- Pipe dream
- Rodent's Revenge
- Ski Free
- Taipei
- TetraVex
- Tetris
- TriPeaks
- Do's Tomb
- Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection
- Charmer
- Color collision
- Fringer
- Finty flush
- Jewel Chase
- Lineup
- Mixed genetics
- Muddled Casino
- Council Poker
- Spring weekend
- Microsoft Puzzle Collection Entertainment Pack (Game Boy Color)
- Color collision
- Finty flush
- Jewel Chase
- Lineup
- Council Poker
- Spring weekend
Web links
- Overview of all Microsoft Entertainment Packs at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welcome To Gaming Lite. In: Computer Gaming World, No. 98 September 1992, pp. 74-76 , accessed July 3, 2014 .