The Great Operating System Games

harrymcc writes "For decades, the simple little games that come with operating systems have been some of the most-used software on the planet. Legendary geeks such as Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Andy Herzfeld have tried their hands at writing them. And yet they get no respect — or, actually, attention of any kind. Technologizer's Benj Edwards aimed to rectify that with a look at forty years' worth of bundled OS games, from 1971 Unix text-based ones to Woz's Little Brick Out to such Windows mainstays as Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Reversi." Article is an annoyingly long slide show (would it kill people to put a reasonable amount of content on pages?) but there's some fun stuff in there.

Comments

Microsoft Windows as a game

[davidwr]

How many high-risk operations can you do before you lose?

You lose when:
*you have to reboot
*your computer is no longer under your control
*you are unable to do any of the tasks that Windows claims to be able to do without rebooting or losing control of your computer

Re:Xbill

[rrhal]

They went into minutiae about winblows

You sound like a fucking idiot and a fanboy when you say that, and no one will ever take seriously anything you say after it.

And you sound like a Nazi. I see you don't have the balls spew your bile with your own fucking name.