This follows off from the blogpost on Windows Accessories, which is longer and better.
Older Windows operating systems also used to incorporate games, unlike the current Windows which seems to have just solitaire which they stuffed with ads. Yes, you can install other games, and the internet and the outside world exist, but it's like Microsoft want to be perfect for the office, so dilute any fun in the process.
Solitaire was very fun, and helped me enjoy card games - it just doesn't work as well with actual cards. I never understood Minesweeper, but I like playing the newspaper versions (or at least I did, before I stopped buying newspapers). If I understood Chess and Mahjong, they'd have been more fun. I was much younger at the time.
The weirdest one, though, was Purble Place, which looking back was probably aimed at primary school children. Having to make some cake, guessing the correct Purble (a creature that looks like a mushroom) from countless options (like Wordle in a way)...it's quite surreal thinking about it.
And then Microsoft got rid of all the games.
Maybe there's a reason to study computer science now...just to make more games.
I'll stop the pointless nostalgia now. But here's the blogpost on Windows Acccesories so you can continue that nostalgia.
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