Symantec Game Pack is an above-average collection of 6 mini-games written by Charles Timmerman and published by Symantec in 1991 for Windows 3.1.
All six games are computerized versions of common parlor games, some not usually seen in a PC game (Jacks and Smart Dots). The games are a nice mix of action, puzzle and strategy: Jacks (typical pick-up-the-jacks-and-catch-the-ball game a lot of people play as kids), Memory Blocks (a straightforward memory game), Pick Up Sticks (another game I played a lot as a kid, where you must pick up one stick at a time from the random pile without moving others), Hangman, Smart Dots (an interesting and more complicated variant of Tic-Tac-Toe), and Code Breaker (a straight clone of deduction game Mastermind).
Overall, Symantec Game Pack is a decent collection that is fun for short coffee breaks, although the quality of games is inconsistent: I found Smart Dots and Hangman quite interesting, but the rest only marginally above average. Worth a look if you're looking for some short games to play at the office.
Review By HOTUD
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Symantec Game Pack for Windows 16-bit was released somewhere in October 1991, over 6 months before Kirby's Dream Land (the first Kirby game) for Game Boy in April 27, 1992.
Symantec Game Pack was released in the similar period as Action 52 for NES (that is likely released in September 2, 1991), the worst video game of all time that is so bad it's good.
All six games of Symantec Game Pack seem to have the latest date of change as of October 1, 1991, 0:00 (likely the date when they are all compiled together for a 360KB floppy disk).
Windows 3.1 was released in April 6, 1992 - 3 weeks before Kirby's Dream Land.
Does this work on Windows 11
If just anyone could port the dots game to android... the ones there are full of adware
thank you!
I had SEVERAL of these games on my old laptop! To be able to download them again is just nostalgia!
And a Windows 98 Virtual Machine, while tricky to set up, is more than sufficient for these games.
They works fine in win 8 with dosbox(win 3.0 emulated) thanks for sharing such things.
If you have Windows 7/8/10 x64 you will need a WineVDM/otVDM by otya128: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases
My wife has played these since they came out, however it looks like they no longer work in windows 10.
settings for all of these games are stored in the C:\WINDOWS folder in the SYMGAMES.INI file.
Derm der games need Winda's me thinks! - not ole DOSe
All 6 games work just fine.
I find 'Blocks' to be the most entertaining, as the game includes a score board. I feel a scoreboard would make 'Hangman', 'Sticks', 'Jacks', and 'Code Breaker' more fun to play. Also, I wish 'Dots' and 'Hangman' had two player modes. The graphics are simple, yet enjoyable. That said, I would definitely recommend the game pack to anyone.
I had no idea that Symantec published games before they moved on to antivirus software. Huh. Learn something new everyday.
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