Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack
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| Microsoft Entertainment Pack | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Home |
| Distributor(s) | Microsoft |
| Series | Entertainment Pack |
| Platform(s) | Windows 3.1x, Game Boy Color |
| Release date | 1995 (Windows), 2001 (Game Boy Color) |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle, Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Media | Floppy Disk (Windows), ROM Cartridge (Game Boy Color) |
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
[edit] Game Boy Color Version
A pack of seven games was released for the Game Boy Color in 2001 as Microsoft: The Best of Entertainment Pack. Three of the games weren't included in the original BOWEP, but were from other Microsoft Entertainment Packs.
Games:
- Tut's Tomb
- TriPeaks
- FreeCell
- Tic-Tac-Tics* - 3D Tic-Tac-Toe
- Minesweeper*
- Life Genesis*
- SkiFree
* Not included in the original Best of Windows Entertainment Pack.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Best of Windows Entertainment Pack at MobyGames
- Microsoft: The Best of Entertainment Pack for Game Boy Color at Answers.com
- Microsoft: The Best of Entertainment Pack Download(you have to scroll down to find it on that page)
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