Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack
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Game Boy Color Cover Art | |
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
Publisher(s) | Microsoft Home |
Distributor(s) | Microsoft |
Series | Entertainment Pack |
Platform(s) | Windows 3.1x, Game Boy Color |
Release date(s) | 1995 (Windows), 2001 (Game Boy Color) |
Genre(s) | Puzzle, Strategy |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Distribution | Floppy Disk (Windows), ROM Cartridge (Game Boy Color) |
The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack (BOMEP) was a collection of thirteen 16-bit 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 the player 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
Game Boy Color Version
A multicart containing seven games was released for the Game Boy Color as The Best Of Entertainment Pack. Four of the games on the multicart were ported from Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack, while the remaining three were ported from other Microsoft Entertainment Pack compilations.
Games found on the GBC Microsoft Entertainment Pack multicart:
- Tut's Tomb
- TriPeaks
- FreeCell
- TicTactics*
- Minesweeper*
- Life Genesis*
- SkiFree
* Not included in the original Best of Windows Entertainment Pack.