Having run out of games developed in-house, Microsoft hired a company in 1995 to develop 10 games for the "Microsoft Entertainment Pack Puzzle Collection" later releasing the Puzzle Collection with six games in 2000 for the GameBoy Color.WordZap is a puzzle video game designed by Michael F.C.
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Microsoft later released "The Best of Windows Entertainment Pack" (BOWEP) in 1994 with 13 of the games and in 2001 released a version of BOWEP with seven games for the GameBoy Color that included Minesweeper and TicTactics. This included 10 games: Sink the Ships, Space Defense, Blackjack, Chess, Codebreaker, FreeCell, Hearts, Minesweeper, Reversi and Taipei. It was also common to make fun of each other and in Chip's Challenge, released as part of WEP 4 in 1992, Chuck Sommerville spelled "Rob D" in the tile arrangement of Level 145.Ī separate "Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows CE" was released in 1997. For example, in addition to "Duff Software" another group of programmers released games using the label "Bogus Software". The Microsoft employees who contributed games to the Entertainment Pack shared their programs at work using tongue-in-cheek distribution companies. A review by COMPUTE! Magazine 5 in August 1991 focused solely on the new Minesweeper game:
Minesweeper became so popular it was added to the Windows 3.1 operating system in 1992. Black Jack, Go Figure, Jezzball, Maxwell's Maniac and Tic Tac Drop. WEP 4 (1992) included Chess, Chip's Challenge, Dr. WEP 3 (1991) included Fuji Golf, IdleWild, Klotski, Life Genesis, SkiFree, Tetravex, TriPeaks and Wordzap. WEP 2 (1991) included Freecell, IdleWild, Jigsawed, Pipe Dream, Rattler's Race, Rodent's Revenge, Stones and Tut's Tomb. WEP 1 (1990) included Cruel, Golf, IdleWild, Minesweeper, Pegged, Taipei, Tetris and TicTactics. 4Ī total of 28 games were released in addition to the IdleWild screensavers. 1 According to Libby Duzan, the Lead Product Manager for Games during 1992-1994, Minesweeper was included because "it was the favorite game of everybody involved" in creating WEP. The graphics and Help files were cleaned up and Legal renamed the games TicTactics and Minesweeper. It is unclear whether this was Bruce Ryan 2 or Charles Fitzgerald 3. Donner submitted these two games and both were accepted by "the Product Manager" 1. Another game was a version of Mine ("Win Mine") with the player using hidden number clues to clear landmines. One game was a 3D version of Tic Tac Toe ("3-D TicTacToe") with the player competing against the computer. He joined Microsoft in 1989 along with Curt Johnson and the pair wrote several games under the label "Duff Software" in spare time.
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One of the employees who submitted games was Robert Donner.
WEP was so successful Microsoft quickly released three more packs with the original release rebranded "Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1". The pack was advertised with the slogan "Now you can use the incredible power of Windows 3.0 to goof off". Employees were asked to submit programs and "Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows" was released on 8 October 1990 with seven games and a screensaver retailing for $39.95. Windows 3.0 debuted on and Microsoft decided the new operating system needed some games. WEP was the first collection of games developed by Microsoft for Windows 3.0 instead of MS-DOS. Windows Minesweeper was first released as part of the Windows Entertainment Pack (WEP) on 8 October 1990.
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