Microsoft Entertainment Pack
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The original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack (WEP) was a collection of simply-designed computer games for Windows 3.1x. These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. The most notable of these games is Microsoft's Solitaire game. Many of the games were later released in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack. There were four Entertainment Packs in the original series.
Here is a complete list of the original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack titles:
- Chess
- Chip's Challenge
- Cruel (a card game)
- Dr. Black Jack
- 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
- Minesweeper
- Pegged
- Pipe Dream (by LucasArts)
- Rattler Race
- Rodent's Revenge
- SkiFree
- Solitaire (Klondike variety)
- Stones
- Taipei
- Tetravex
- Tetris (Windows version)
- Tic Tac Drop (basically a Connect Four clone)
- TicTactics
- TriPeaks (a card game)
- Tut's Tomb (a card game)
- WordZap
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. There were a few GameSamplers.