Best of Windows Entertainment Pack

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Microsoft Entertainment Pack
Developer(s) Microsoft
Publisher(s) Microsoft Home
Distributor(s) Microsoft
Series Entertainment Pack
Release date(s) 1995
Genre(s) Puzzle, Strategy
Mode(s) Single-player
Platform(s) Windows 3.1x
Media Floppy Disk

The Best of Windows Entertainment Pack (BOWEP) was a collection of thirteen simple games sold separately from Windows. It was published in the Microsoft Home series of software. They were selected as the best games from the previously released Microsoft Entertainment Pack series. The games were:

  • Chip's Challenge - a puzzle game where you needed to collect all the chips on each level.
  • Dr. Black Jack - a blackjack game tutor
  • FreeCell - a solitaire card game that is now bundled with Windows
  • Golf - the traditional solitaire variant
  • JezzBall - a game of reflexes in which the player had to trap bouncing balls in small boxes
  • Pipe Dream - in which the player needed to build a system of interconnected pipes of a certain length
  • Rodent's Revenge - in which a mouse needs to trap cats by pushing boxes
  • SkiFree - a fairly simplistic skiing game
  • Taipei - a version of Mahjong solitaire
  • TetraVex - a puzzle game of arranging tiles
  • Tetris - the classic game of falling blocks
  • TriPeaks - a gambling solitaire card game
  • Tut's Tomb - another solitaire card game

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