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Classic Windows game turns 30 and still has millions of players 

On Friday (22) marks the 30th anniversary of a classic Windows game, Solitaire (or Solitaire, in English). Released in 1990 along with Version 3.0 of the operating system, the game is still played by more than 35 million people each month.
The game has become one of the symbols of the operating system and is available in more than 200 markets, having its instructions and commands translated into 65 different languages. It is the most famous Windows game, surpassing classics like FreeCell, minefield and Pinball.
In a way it would not be incorrect to say that patience is perhaps one of the greatest examples of gamification. Virtual pastime was included in the operating system as a way to help people get used to using the mouse. Three decades later it is possible to say that the experiment worked.
Developed by Wes Cherry, a programmer who worked with Microsoft intern at the time. With simple commands and dynamics, the goal of the game was to create stacks of cards from the lowest to the highest value and then separate them according to suit. Curious point is that the title came to have a feature to cheat bosses on the desktop. A command allowed to create a fake spreadsheet data in place of the game screen. The ruse, however, was barred by Microsoft.
Already Windows 3.0 is the first really popular version of Microsoft's operating system. More than 10 million copies of the platform were marketed.

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