50 Fantastic Games

50 Fantastic Games is a compilation of games all of which have been released into the public domain as freeware, in fact when the CD is recognised by the PC it's label is 'FREEWARE'.

This compilation was published by Focus Multimedia< and uses a menu system similar to their other shareware/freeware compilations like 1250+ Games for Windows.

Games are grouped together by type into:* Arcade Games: + Another Pool + Blob Factory + Columns - a Tetris clone from John Rotenstein + SK-111 'Star Killer' + Tetriszen

• Board Games:

  • Arasan Chess: 16 bit and 32 bit versions
  • Board Game for Windows from Lezlisoft
  • Cheat Mine from Dimitrios Staikos
  • Connect4
  • The Game of the Amazons
  • Knight's Tour
  • Mastermind
  • WinMind from François Liger

• Card and Dice Games:

  • Acme the first of three games from Keith Westley
  • Crib the second of three games from Keith Westley
  • Euchre from Land-J Technologies
  • A Lottery number generator which is the first non-game in this collection
  • Smoke'em Poker
  • Video Poker from Robert Brush
  • GNU Chess

• Educational Games:

  • School-Mom for Windows: Volume 1 - ColorBook
  • FaceMaker which is the second non game of the compilation
  • Dr. Mysto The Mindreader
  • Gowords

• Solitaire Games Bank 1:

  • Accordion Solitaire from Richard R. Sands, this game has not been documented as no verifiable release date can be found
  • Solitaire King: Beleaguered Castle
  • Solitaire King: Busy Aces
  • Columns the last of three games from Keith Westley
  • Solitaire King: Beleaguered Castle
  • ETowers
  • Solitaire King: Grandfather's Patience
  • John Cain Solitaire another game that has not been fully documented because there is a lack of accurate information
  • Solitaire King: King Albert
  • Solitaire King: Kitty In The Corner
  • Solitaire King: Maze
  • Solitaire King: Monte Carlo

• Solitaire Games Bank 2:

  • Accordion Solitaire from Richard R. Sands
  • Solitaire King: Shamrock
  • Solitaire King: Sly Fox
  • Spider by Dan Morrow
  • Solitaire King: St. Helena
  • Solitaire King: Triplets
  • Solitaire King: Trusty Twelves
  • Solitaire King: Yukon

• Strategy Games:

  • BattleStar from Gregory Braun
  • Brickbat
  • Button Madness
  • Classic Adventure: The Original Colossal Cave!
  • Code Breaker from Scottish developer R.D. McDermid.
  • Color Linez
  • Kyodai
  • MicroBalls Some games run from the CD others require installation either by running a setup program or by copying the folder from the CD to the hard drive.