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Microsoft’s Solitaire anniversary merch sucks, here’s the shirts they should makeNo card cascade?!
No card cascade?!
Celebrating the big day ina blog posttoday, Paul Jensen, the studio head of Microsoft Casual Games, revealed that now they have merch. It is…
No.
This is a terrible missed opportunity. Solitaire contains a deeply cool and thrilling sight that would be mighty bold on a shirt: the post-victory cascade of cards.
Now imagine that idea in the hands of anyone who had, like, any design sensibilities or the vaguest awareness of the human form. As I havepreviously stressedto a degree that’s almost suspicious, I do not buy video game merch and I would not buy these either. But I would at least respect them. I would respect the hell out of them.
“At the time there was an internal ‘company within a company’ called Bogus software. It was really just a server where bunch of guys having fun hacking Windows to learn about the API tossed their games. A program manager on the Windows team saw it and decided to include it in Windows 3.0. It was made clear that they wouldn’t pay me other than supplying me with an IBM XT to fix some bugs during the school year - I was perfectly fine with it and I am to this day.”
Microsoft are today trying to set a record for “the most games of Microsoft Solitaire completed in one day”, through the modern Microsoft Solitaire Collection availableon the Windows 10 Storeorin your browser. You have to pay actual money to get the old card backs so, frankly, who cares.
You can buy that official t-shirt and mugfrom the Microsoft Store, but don’t.
