‘Mortal Kombat’ and ‘Super Mario Kart’ join the Video Game Hall of Fame

Sorry, Half-Life fans, you'll have to wait at least another year to see the classic FPS make it into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. The National Museum of Play has announced this year's batch of inductees: Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Colossa...

ICYMI: The story of Microsoft’s Solitaire and volleyball-blocking robots

Way back in 1988, Wes Cherry was a Microsoft intern and during his time at the company he created the biggest time waster the world has ever known: The Solitaire computer game. Cherry built the game out of boredom instead of being directed by his...

Real Windows 3.0 Solitaire Cards Let You Waste More Time with Shuffling

Computer UI pioneer Susan Kare teamed up with Areaware to make a physical deck of playing cards based on her design for the first Windows Solitaire game. It’s funny that we got a real life version of Minesweeper way before this one.

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The deck also comes with two jokers designed by Susan exclusively for this deck.

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You can get the deck from Areaware for $14 (USD).

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Microsoft Holds A Global Tournament on Solitaire’s 25th Birthday


So Microsoft is making people remember those good old days when you had nothing to do and you would play some rounds of Solitaire. It’s been 25 years since the game was launched and now Microsoft is...

Windows 98 Solitaire Deck of Cards

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The late ’90′s called, they want all of your wasted time back. That probably doesn’t make any sense but neither does making an actual deck of cards modeled exactly after the classic look of Windows 98 Solitaire. Because that’s pretty much exactly what Evan Roth did and the design was commissioned for the Cooper Hewitt in an edition of 500 and now it’s all sold out. So there. What’s next, Minesweeper? Oh wait, it’s been done too.

Windows 98 Solitaire Deck of Cards