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Flight Simulator 5.1 add the ability to handle scenery libraries including wide use of satellite imagery, faster performance, and a barrage of weather effects: storms, 3D clouds, and fog became true-to-life elements in the Flight Simulator world. This edition was also the first version that was released on CD-ROM and the last for DOS.

The Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack

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.

Microsoft Oceans

You will learn all about the many creatures which inhabit our planet's oceans; how humans have interacted with it throughout history; and oceans in general. It's all accompanied by a wealth of information which is supplemented by quizzes, videos and pictures. You can even take a narrated tour with one of many different characters, each of whom explores specific subjects relating to oceans. Keep on learning with interactive games and quizzes. Exciting articles will help you to understand the depth of water. You will learn many secrets of marine animals with hundreds of interesting quizzes and 15 of intriguing games. Look how amazing open water in front of your eyes! Explore the world of the oceans with: more than 700 colorful articles, information about hundreds of marine creatures, more than 100 video clips, and more than 1000 photos. This software title was also made with the cooperation of the World Wildlife Foundation.

Battle Arena Toshinden 2

Tamsoft1995

CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON…and do battle against the greatest warriors of the world! Each martial arts fighter has been personally selected to represent his/her special techniques and tactics in a winner-takes-all secret tournament that defies death. Your favorite characters are back in the arena with new moves and special attacks-Eiji, the master swordsman, Sofia and her deadly whip, and Mondo with his powerful spear! Two mysterious new contenders also join the battle with original moves and abilities that give them the chance to dominate the action! Learn brand new special moves, master the fight, and prepare for your day in Arena!

Fury3

Terminal Reality1995

Who says you can't save the world? In Microsoft® Fury³, you have to save eight of them―from the sweltering heat of a tropical world to a toxic chemical wasteland. And with targets above, below, and on each planet's surface, you'll see why it's fury―to the third power.

Microsoft's Excel 95: Hall of Tortured Souls

Hall of Tortured Souls is an easter egg in Microsoft Excel 95.

Hover!

Hover! was a video game that was included on CD-ROM versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. It was a showcase for the advanced multimedia capabilities available on personal computers at the time. It is still available from Microsoft and will run on all of Microsoft's 95-compatible operating systems, from Windows 95, up to and including Windows 7 and 8. Additionally, Hover! will run in WINE on Unix-like systems. The game is a combination of bumper cars and capture the flag. Hover! was also officially re-released by Microsoft with partnership with Internet Explorer for Windows 8 and 8.1. It has three vehicles you can choose from. These include Chicago, Bambi, and Explorer with different stats. The game is available on the Windows App Store.

GeoSafari

The Bruce Artwick Organization1994

Educational game bundled with the infamous OS flop, Microsoft Bob.

Microsoft Space Simulator

Microsoft Space Simulator is a space flight simulator program, based on Microsoft Flight Simulator for MS-DOS. It was one of the first general-purpose space flight simulators and it incorporated concepts from astrodynamics and celestial mechanics.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0

The Bruce Artwick Organization1993

The fifth take on the Flight Simulator series. This version added SVGA graphics, textures in certain areas, sound card support, and two new flight areas, Paris and Munich. This was the final DOS-only release.

Chess

An early computer iteration of Chess for Windows, released as part of Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4.

Maxwell's Maniac

Microsoft Corporation1992

Maxwell's Maniac is a computer game originally part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack series. Loosely based on the concept of the Maxwell's Demon thought experiment, the object of the game is to separate the red and blue molecules into their respective color-coded chambers using a sliding door. It is superficially similar to JezzBall in layout.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4

Designed for Microsoft Windows environment as stress relief for that busy office. Titles include: - Chess - Chip's Challenge - Dr. Black Jack - Go Figure! (mathematics theme) - JezzBall (Qix clone - trap bouncing balls) - Maxwell's Maniac (pong clone) - Tic-Tac-Drop (puzzle game)

Dr. Black Jack

Dr. Black Jack is a computer game featured in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows. It is based on the popular card game Blackjack (aka Pontoon, 21 etc.). The minimum bet is 10 points per deal.

Tic Tac Drop

Tic Tac Drop is a puzzle video game developed and published by Microsoft in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4 for Windows 3 in 1992. The game is a rendition of Connect Four but with several additional features like the ability to customize the size and shape of the play field as well as the length of line needed to win.

Go Figure!

In "Go Figure!", the player is given a selection of four numbers and they must use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to devise a calculation that will match a target number. The player scores points for every equation they solve within the game's time limit. There are skill levels, a hint function and a high score table.

Microsoft Hearts

Microsoft Hearts is a computer game included with Microsoft Windows, based on a card game with the same name. It was first introduced in Windows 3.1 in 1992, and has since been included in every version of Windows up to and including Windows 7.

Nibbles

1991

Nibbles is a simple video game and variant of Snake. It was inspired by an early 1980s game called Hustle from the Radio Shack TRS-80 micro-computer. (It was not influenced by Mozaik Software's 1984 Amstrad CPC game, Nibbler, despite the similar names.) Nibbles was written in QBasic by Rick Raddatz, who later went on to create small business companies such as Xiosoft and Bizpad. The game's objective is to navigate a virtual snake (or worm) through a walled-space while consuming numbers (from 1 through 9) along the way. The player must avoid colliding with walls, other snakes or their own snake. Since the length of the snake increases with each number consumed, the game increases in difficulty over time. After the last number has been eaten, the player progresses to the next level, with more complex obstacles and increased speed. There is a multiplayer mode which allows a second player to control a second snake by using a different set of keys on the same keyboard. Nibbles originally became popular because it was included with MS-DOS version 5.0 and above. Written in QBasic, it is one of the programs included as a demonstration of that programming language. The QBasic game uses the standard 80x25 text screen to emulate an 80x50 grid by making clever use of foreground and background colors, and the ANSI characters for full blocks and half-height blocks. Microsoft's 24kB QBasic version was copyrighted in 1990. Because of MS-DOS's prevalence at that time, it was available on almost every PC in the early 1990s. Modern computer speeds have rendered the game-speed-delay timing loops invalid, and thus the QBasic version of Nibbles requires some code changes to operate correctly on modern PCs. However, the adjustable clock rate on the DOSBox DOS emulator allows the original code to run at speeds similar to those on the original hardware. Nibbles is also runnable on QB64 as a way to avoid emulation.

Stones

Stones is a game developed by Michael C. Miller and released in 1991 as part of Microsoft's Windows Entertainment Pack. The object is to place 90 tiles, or "stones", on a board. A tile can only be placed if it shares two of three attributes - background color, character color, or character shape - with every adjacent tile. Wild tiles may be placed anywhere regardless of attributes. The game is won when all tiles are placed or when there are no valid spaces to place the next tile.

Klotski

Klotski is an ancient Polish game that provides mathematical problems in the form of a small wooden game board with various sized blocks. The object of the computer game is to free the "master block," in as few moves as possible. The computer scores you on the number of moves it takes to solve a puzzle. 24 puzzles are included, as well as a puzzle editor.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2

Microsoft Entertainment Pack is a collection of casual games for Windows. This pack includes: – FreeCell – Jigsawed – Pipe Dream – Rattler Race – Rodent's Revenge – Stones – Tut's Tomb – IdleWild (a screensaver program)

LifeGenesis

The object of the game is to remove all the red cells from the grid. The computer will try to remove all the blue squares. You and the computer take turns adding and deleting cells.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3

Microsoft Entertainment Pack is a collection of casual games for Windows. This pack includes: – Fuji Golf – Klotski – LifeGenesis – SkiFree – TetraVex – TriPeaks – WordZap – IdleWild (a screensaver program)

TriPeaks

TriPeaks is a patience or solitaire card game that is akin to the solitaire games Golf and Black Hole. The game uses one deck and the object is to clear three peaks made up of cards. It was created by Robert Hogue and popularized as a result of being included in Microsoft Solitaire Collection 3.

Tut's Tomb

Tut's Tomb is a variation on "Pyramid", a patience or solitaire game of the Simple Addition family, where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation. The object of the game is to remove pairs of cards that add up to a total of 13, the equivalent of the highest valued card in the deck, from a pyramid arrangement of 28 cards. When using the standard 52-card deck, Jacks are valued at 11, Queens at 12, and Kings at 13.

WordZap

MICA1991

WordZap is a puzzle video game designed by Michael Crick included with Volume 3 of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack. In WordZap, players race to make proper English words to fill their rack of words, but when one player makes a word already found by the other player, the word is "zapped" from both players' racks. Each round ends when either one player fills the word rack, or time runs out without either player being able to make another word.

Fuji Golf

ANK Software1991

Fuji Golf is a golf sports video game released with Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3 for Windows in 1991. The object of the game is to play the round (18 holes) in as few strokes as possible. Factors such as wind are automatically generated, and the player plays against various computer-generated scores.

SkiFree

Chris Pirih1991

SkiFree is a casual single-player sports simulator wherein the player uses the keyboard or the mouse to control a skier across a white background representing snow on a mountainside. The object of the game is to ski down an endless slope and avoid the obstacles (trees, stumps, dogs, etc.) The player can also opt to partake in three modes: slalom, freestyle, and tree slalom. In slalom, players must properly ski around flags in an attempt to complete the run with the shortest time possible. Tree slalom adds obstacles to the slalom run. In freestyle, players ski downhill and jump off ramps while racking up points by performing tricks. Deductions are imposed for colliding into obstacles or failing to land properly after a stunt. When the player passes the 2,000-meter mark, the Abominable Snowman appears and starts to chase the player, eating them if it catches them.

Microsoft FreeCell

Microsoft FreeCell is a computer game included in Microsoft Windows, based on a card game with the same name. Microsoft has included a FreeCell computer game with every release of the Windows operating system since 1995, greatly contributing to the game's popularity among users of personal computers, even leading to the creation of several websites devoted to FreeCell.

TicTactics

A Tic-Tac-Toe game played against the computer. Can be played in 3x3, 3x3x3, or 4x4x4 configurations. Was included in the 1990 release "Microsoft Entertainment Pack".

Pegged

Pegged is a puzzle video game developed by Mike Blaylock and published by Microsoft in their Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows for Windows 3 in 1990. It is a video game version of various layouts of peg solitaire.

Golf

Golf, also known as One Foundation, is a patience or solitaire card game where players try to earn the lowest number of points (as in golf, the sport) over the course of nine deals (or "holes", also borrowing from golf terminology). It has a tableau of 35 face-up cards and a higher ratio of skill to luck than most other solitaire card games. It was included as part of Microsoft Entertainment Pack in 1990 for Windows PCs.

Cruel

Cruel is a solitaire card game based on Perseverance. Cruel became popular when it was published as video game for Microsoft Windows by Microsoft in 1990 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3.0.

Jigsawed

JigSawed is a puzzle video game developed by Tito Messerli and published by Microsoft in Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2 for PC in 1991. The game is a simple jigsaw puzzle, only it uses primitive shapes instead of standard fully-interlocking jigsaw shapes.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows

The Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 was a pack of simple casual games released in 1990. At the time it was one of the first Windows only PC games on the market. This pack includes: – Cruel Solitaire (a card game) – Golf (a card game) – Minesweeper – Pegged – Taipei – Tetris – TicTactics – IdleWild (a screensaver program) (untagged)

Taipei

Taipei is a matching game using Majhong tiles. In order to remove tiles from the field, they must both have an exposed left or right side. The object is to systematically clear all tiles from the field.

Microsoft Minesweeper

1990

Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly just Minesweeper, and also known as Flower Field) is a minesweeper-type video game created by Curt Johnson, originally for IBM's OS/2, that was ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time.

Microsoft Solitaire