Throughout the various generations of Windows released by Microsoft over the years, only a few set of features have remained constant in all versions. One such feature is the widely-known game of Solitaire, which was in the early days of computers the world’s most popular time-killer, either a work or at home.
If you have switched from a Windows computers, or are just interested in playing the original version of Solitaire on mobile platforms, then you should be excited to learn that Microsoft has recently announced that the Solitaire Collection will be coming on both Android and iOS.
Any Windows version until Windows 10 always included to staple games, Solitaire and Spider Solitaire. These games are also included in the newest Windows, but just in a different application known as Solitaire collection. The new app includes both versions of the original games as well as a few other variants.
Unknown to Microsoft, the company made history back in 1990 when they introduced Solitaire as a pre-installed app on the Windows 3.0. Its purpose was to give users an entertaining way to practice basic tasks in the current form of graphical the user interface, which was unfamiliar to a lot of people back then.
The company hopes to build on the phenomenon that Solitaire proved to be on Windows computers and still is with 119 million people having played the game on the last two versions of Windows, with a promotional release on mobile.
The Solitaire Collection for Android and iOS includes three other game types besides the classic and Spider version. These are FreeCell, Tripeaks, and Pyramid. The standard version of the game bundle is free. However, the premium edition will feature a free one month trial period. After which, you have to pay $1.99 every month to enjoy the game without ads, as well as to receive double coin rewards used in daily challenges and game boosts.
It wouldn’t be a current mobile game without micro-transactions which range from $0.99 up to $9.99. Although there are many other different iterations of Solitaire already available on both platforms made by a variety of developers, Microsoft only counts its version as the world’s number one Solitaire game.
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