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The '''Best of Windows Entertainment Pack''' (BOWEP) 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: |
The '''Best of Windows Entertainment Pack''' (BOWEP) 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: |
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Games found on the GBC ''Microsoft Entertainment Pack'' multcart: |
Games found on the GBC ''Microsoft Entertainment Pack'' multcart: |
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*[[Pyramid (solitaire)|Tut's Tomb]] |
*[[Pyramid (solitaire)|Tut's Tomb]] |
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*[[Tri Peaks|TriPeaks]] |
*[[Tri Peaks|TriPeaks]] |
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Revision as of 21:21, 5 May 2010
| Microsoft Entertainment Pack | |
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Home |
| Series | Entertainment Pack |
| Platform(s) | Windows 3.1x, Game Boy Color |
| Release | 1995 (Windows), 2001 (Game Boy Color) |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle, Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Download the .rar file containing the GBC version of BOWEP, VisualBoy Advance Emulator, and additional roms here:
... and another game pack, go here:
... and even more here:
The Best of Windows Entertainment Pack (BOWEP) 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 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
Game Boy Color Version
A multicart containing seven games was released for the Game Boy Color as simply Microsoft Entertainment Pack. Four of the games on the multi-cart were ported from Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack, while the remaining three were ported from other Microsoft Entertainment Pack compilations. Beta screenshots, as well as a beta ROM which recently leaked, confirms that the GBC edition of BOWEP originally contained an additional five games, including Taipei, Tetris, Pipe Dream, JezzBall and a technologically-crude version of Chip's Challenge. This Beta version would have made a near-complete Gameboy Color port of Windows' Best of Windows Entertainment Pack. When the Gameboy Color port of Windows' Best of Windows Entertainment Pack was scheduled to be released, half the games were removed and reserved for a second Gameboy Color editon of BOWEP, however, this never came to fruition due to Nintendo's focus on the then-upcoming Gameboy Advance.[1]
Games found on the GBC Microsoft Entertainment Pack multcart:
* Not included in the original Best of Windows Entertainment Pack.
See also
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
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