![]() Cherry told more of his story on Reddit four years ago: Then, the story goes, Microsoft thought it would help people get used to dragging and dropping using a mouse (novel, at the time) and included it with Windows 3.0. ![]() Microsoft Solitaire started out as a fun little thing written in 1989 by Wes Cherry, a Microsoft intern who wanted the card game on Windows after playing a version on Mac. As I have previously stressed to a degree that's almost suspicious, I do not buy video game merch and I would not buy these either. ![]() Now imagine that idea in the hands of anyone who had, like, any design sensibilities or the vaguest awareness of the human form. I have hastily and sloppily mocked up some vague sense of what I mean, using custom print-on-demand store Printful (idk it was the first Google result w/e) and the Wining Solitaire browser toy by, ahem, "Mr.doob" (which lets you trigger Solitaire victory cascades as you please and is very fun). Solitaire contains a deeply cool and thrilling sight that would be mighty bold on a shirt: the post-victory cascade of cards. Microsoft claim that even now, there are "more than 100 million hands played daily around the globe." So if they're so proud of it, why is their 30th anniversary merch such ghastly garbage? They've missed a huge opportunity to use one of the most striking images in PC gaming history.Ĭelebrating the big day in a blog post today, Paul Jensen, the studio head of Microsoft Casual Games, revealed that now they have merch. On this day in 1990, Microsoft launched Windows 3.0, which came with the card game that would grow to be despised by officer managers and IT teachers alike. Today is the 30th birthday of perhaps the most iconic PC game of all time, Microsoft Solitaire.
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