Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack

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Distributor(s) Microsoft Mode(s) Single-player Series Entertainment Pack		Genre(s) Puzzle, Strategy Initial release date 1994 Developer Microsoft Corporation

Release date(s) 1995 (Windows), 2001 (Game Boy Color) Platforms Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Publishers Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Home Similar Microsoft Entertainment Pack, Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The, JezzBall, Rodent's Revenge, Chip's Challenge

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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. The games were:

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Chip's Challenge - a puzzle game where the player needed to collect all the chips on each level.

Dr. Black Jack - a blackjack game tutor

FreeCell - a solitaire card game that was bundled with Windows 95 to Windows 7

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

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Game Boy Color Version

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A multicart containing seven games was released for the Game Boy Color as The Best Of Entertainment Pack. Four of the games on the multicart were ported from Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack, while the remaining three were ported from other Microsoft Entertainment Pack compilations.

Games found on the GBC Microsoft Entertainment Pack multicart:

Tut's Tomb

TriPeaks

FreeCell

TicTactics*

Minesweeper*

Life Genesis*

SkiFree

* Not included in the original Best of Windows Entertainment Pack.