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May 12, 2008

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freefunnygame Microsoft’s Solitaire, which came free with Microsoft Windows, is widely considered the first successful “casual game” and was particularly played by office workers who were using Windows for their work. Subsequent versions of Windows included Minesweeper, and once Microsoft discovered the popularity of their pack-in solitaire,playgames they expanded on it with FreeCell and Spider Solitaire.pcgames
In 1989, Nintendo’s Game Boy was released with the free pack-in casual game Tetris. Tetris on the Game Boy was immensely popular partially because, as a casual game, FreeGames it was quick and simple, which was ideal to the portable gaming model.freeflashgamedownload
The advent of Flash created a boom in web-based games, while also limiting them to using a single-button mouse, and having no built-in functionality for save states, encouraging designers to create simple games that could be played to completion in one short sitting. The most prominent game from this period was Diamond Mine, released in 2000 by PopCap Games and licensed by Microsoft, as Bejeweled for their Microsoft Zone.
Casual games received another boost when cell phones with large color displays became the norm because, like Adobe Flash before them, the cell phones had limited capabilities ideally suited to short, simple games.
Casual games are often computer simulations of common games (such as chess, checkers, pinball, sudoku, solitaire, and mahjong) FunnyGames but also versions of retro games — including the well-known Tetris.

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