Windows 3.1: 6009

1995 · MS-DOS · Windows 3.x · PC WholeWare

PC WholeWare Developed by PC WholeWare Released 1995 Platform Windows 3.x Perspective Top-down Interface Point and Select Genre Puzzle Gameplay Cards / Tiles Visual Fixed / Flip-screen Description Solitaire King is a single player card game comprising thirty-one different games and over eighty variations thereof. The full product consists of the following games: Aces Up , Accordion , Auld Lang Syne, Beleaguered Castle , Busy Aces , Calculation, Canfield, Clock Solitaire , Famous Fifty, Gaps, Golf Solitaire , Grandfather's Patience , Help your Neighbor, King Albert , Kitty in the Corner , Klondike , Maria Louisa, Maze , Monte Carlo , Poker Solitaire , Pyramid , Royal Marriage, Shamrocks , Sly Fox , Spider , St. Helena (Forty Thieves) , Sultan, Take Eleven, Triplets , Trusty Twelves , and Yukon . It was customary to for developers to advertise their products by publishing a limited or crippled version of it to attract potential buyers. With Solitaire King the developers released some of the titles as freestanding freeware games. This in itself is not unusual, what is unusual is that they released so many. Thirteen freeware games were identified when this submission was first made and many more have been found since, according to this source , as many as twenty-four of the games were released in this manner. From Mobygames.com. Original Entry