Microsoft Entertainment Pack

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Microsoft Entertainment Pack

Developer(s)	Microsoft
Publisher(s)	Microsoft Game Studios
Distributor(s)	Microsoft
Designer(s)	Robert Andrews
Series	Entertainment Pack
Platform(s)	Windows 3.x
Release date	1990
Mode(s)	Single-player

Chip's Challenge

The original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack (WEP) was a collection of simply-designed computer games for Windows. These games were somewhat unusual for the time, in that they would not run under MS-DOS. Many of the games were later released in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack. There were four Entertainment Packs in the original series.

1 List of games
2 GameSampler
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] List of games

Here is a complete list of the original Microsoft Windows Entertainment Pack titles:

Chess
Chip's Challenge
Cruel (a card game)
Dr. Black Jack (a card game)
FreeCell (a card game)
Fuji Golf
Go Figure!
Golf (a card game)
IdleWild (a screensaver program)
JezzBall
Jigsawed
Klotski
Life Genesis (based on the Life simulation by John Horton Conway)
Maxwell's Maniac
Pegged (a form of Peg solitaire)
Pipe Dream (by LucasArts)
Rattler Race
Rodent's Revenge
SkiFree
Stones
Taipei
Tetravex
Tetris (Windows version)
Tic Tac Drop (a form of Connect Four)
TicTactics
TriPeaks (a card game)
Tut's Tomb (a card game)
WordZap

[edit] GameSampler

A version of the Entertainment Pack called the Gamesampler, small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as the 11th disk in a ten-pack by Verbatim for much of the early 1990s, allowing many users to acquire them as a freebie. Games on the sampler included Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Tetris, and Skifree. A "Best of" disk of several of the games was also available at times as a mail-in premium from Kellogg's cereals.