TBH I’d forgotten this game existed till it was brought up in another thread a long while back. I probably only played like an hour of it out of curiosity, but yeah Space Cadet was my jam. This YouTuber has a pretty interesting vid on the game Purble Place.
I mean in software terms it's ancient. It's also the last mainstream OS which was popular before phones became the defacto target device of choice for every new software application.
Modern windows solitaire has adds snd levels and stuff. I mean come on, give me a break. And minesweeper isn't preinstalled. You need admin rights and I don't have them on my work laptop which is the only windows computer I use
Microsoft included Minesweeper and Solitaire in the early versions of Windows to teach users how to use a GUI interface. Minesweeper to teach differential of left and right click, and solitaire to teach users how to drag and drop. Neither were previously needed for most users.
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lemmyng@lemmy.ca · 69 pts · 1y
Space Cadet?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 27 pts · 1y
right? and what in the fuck is purble place?
Lawnman23@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purble_Place
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
A fever dream.
TBH I’d forgotten this game existed till it was brought up in another thread a long while back. I probably only played like an hour of it out of curiosity, but yeah Space Cadet was my jam. This YouTuber has a pretty interesting vid on the game Purble Place.
yeather@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
My childhood
cm0002@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
Came here to say, if it's not including Space Cadet it's trash
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
These are vista games, these icons are the pinnacle of frutiger aero, space cadet was xp only.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
Eh…
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
It's available as a Flatpak, lol.
whostosay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Shit goes dumb hard too. Got my highest score ever a few months back and I used to play this all the time as a kid
negativenull@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Relive the dream:
https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 29 pts · 1y
You forgot about Hover! which was bundled with Windows 95.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!
aviationeast@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Chips challenge on win98 was awesome as a kid.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y
chip's challenge is iconic
perishthethought@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Yes! Ahem, as a kid. Yes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%27s_Challenge
But not exclusive to windows.
Running_Nose@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 1y
It's on Steam!
Slovene@feddit.nl · 13 pts · 1y
Oh, only on cd edition. No wonder I don't know it. We bought our Windows 95 on 26 floppies.
naticus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Wow I forgot about this entirely. I actually really liked it, even if I never played more than an hour at a time.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Remember HoverRace?
Deebster@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Looks like the autolinking misses the
!at the end of your link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!hmmm@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y
Pinball?
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
Pinball was ported, I can install from the aur now.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 1y
It says "PC exclusive" not " Windows exclusive". Linux PCs are still PCs.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Don't forget Haiku.
double_quack@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Wait, whaaaat!!
Matriks404@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
There is a ported version for 3DS, lol.
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
I don't like that Windows 7 is old enough to unironically be called a classic.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Windows 7 is 16 years old.
It's nearly there
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What are those older than 45 years?
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Oldtimers I guess
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Maybe vintage?
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I mean in software terms it's ancient. It's also the last mainstream OS which was popular before phones became the defacto target device of choice for every new software application.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
You forgot the all time classic Dependency Resolution, and the psychological thriller "I fucked up my bootloader".
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Some one actually grew up on Vista? I thought that was a myth
besides the objectively best PC exclusive is super Tux.
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
No love for Jezzball?
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, 0 A.D, Xonotic, Sonic RoboBlast…
haroldstork@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
SuperTuxKart works on Switch!
heavy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Whenever I see the Purble eyes icon I think of that Zoombini educational game.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Where's Skifree?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Eaten by a Yeti
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
FreeCell is my jam
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
Hover!
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Modern windows solitaire has adds snd levels and stuff. I mean come on, give me a break. And minesweeper isn't preinstalled. You need admin rights and I don't have them on my work laptop which is the only windows computer I use
Psythik@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
There are modded XP versions of all the classic Windows games that work in modern Windows. Look into those.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I played this pick up stick one growing up on our 97, but I don't know if that was exclusive.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
King just released Solitaire, so I guess it's not exclusive anymore
RedIce25@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
A crime they were replaced by hot garbage
TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Marzanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Nethack not included?
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I was into Full Tilt, the pinball thing that I remember playing extensively on XP
Matriks404@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I am pretty sure Minesweeper was on Game Boy. And there are various versions of other games on various platforms as well.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Many of these games are on other platforms.
Microsoft included Minesweeper and Solitaire in the early versions of Windows to teach users how to use a GUI interface. Minesweeper to teach differential of left and right click, and solitaire to teach users how to drag and drop. Neither were previously needed for most users.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
For some reason I thought Peggle was an exclusive, but I guess it launched for PC and Mac.
pewpew@feddit.it · 1 pts · 1y
Minecraft Java edition
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Don't forget Nocturne for Windows 95. I wanna play this fucking game but it's unplayable in WINE. I can't imagine it works well on Windows 11 either.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
SkiFree? TriPeaks? Klotski?