Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection (1997)
Genres:Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Puzzle, Sport, Card & Board Game
Themes:Party, Educational, Kids
Game modes:Single player
Story:The Microsoft Entertainment Pack 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.
Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection features ten new puzzle games, designed by Alexei Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris. The puzzle games are:
- Fringer
- Finty Flush
- Mixed Genetics
- Rat Poker
- Lineup
- Jewel Chase
- Color Collision
- Charmer
- Spring Weekend
- Muddled CasinoShow more
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Wow, no love for the broke gamer? This collection of games were great for killing time and chasing high scores, and even better at having my noggin' fire on all cylinders. Just from looking at the screenshots I remember each game's soundtrack and sound effects and it puts me right back on our family computer in the living room trying to make it further than the previous session! This was my favorite step up from Mega Math Blaster on the PC. Even though they were puzzle games and kept me thinking just as hard, I didn't put them in the same category at that time as my strictly "learning" game. I need this in my life again.
I have been trying to remember the name of Jewel Chase for a very long time. If this game pack doesn't come to GoG, at least it gave me that as I've rediscovered it here.
Fond memories of all the games here, even if Jewel Chase is the one that my brain held on to. The screenshots are bringing back memories I didn't know I still had.
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