Microsoft Solitaire, the epic time-waster that has helped countless office workers get through the boring parts of their day, has been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame
The game has been distributed on more than a billion computers around the world since its debut in 1990 on the Windows 3.0 operating system. It has been localized into 65 languages, and is played in over 200 markets around the world, including Antarctica, according to Microsoft.
There weren't many games right at the time, so we had to make them," Cherry said in a 2017 interview with Great Big Story. He said he didn't make any money from his creation.Jeremy Saucier with The Strong museum in Rochester, New York, which runs the hall of fame, said Solitaire helped paved the way for today's huge casual gaming market.
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