#Free wordzap game series#

Chip's Challenge, written by Chuck Sommerville.

Life Genesis (based on Conway's Game of Life, with a two-player mode added ).

IdleWild (a screensaver program) – 8 new screen savers for this pack.

Pipe Dream (by LucasArts), written by Eric Geyser.

IdleWild (a screensaver program), written by Brad Christian.

Taipei (later known as Mahjong Titans and Microsoft Mahjong).

Pegged (a form of Peg solitaire), written by Mike Blaylock.

List of games Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1

1.5 The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack.

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

#Free wordzap game series#

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. The boxes had slogans like 'No more boring coffee breaks' and 'Only a few minutes between meetings? Get in a quick game of Klotski'. Microsoft advertised Entertainment Packs for casual gaming on office computers.

A Game Boy Color version was released in 2000. In 1994, a compilation of the previous four Entertainment Packs were released called The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack.

These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. There were four Entertainment Packs released between 19. Microsoft Entertainment Pack, also known as Windows Entertainment Pack or simply WEP, is a collection of 16-bit casual computer games for Windows.