The Solitaire is undoubtedly the most famous Windows game and Microsoft will hardly create something similar that is as addictive as the popular card game.
But as far as it is concerned Solitaire or Solitaire, if you prefer, few people really know how the title was created and how it ended up becoming the top Windows game to date.
It was created by Wes Cherry when he made his summer internship at 1988 in Microsoft, before it was finally included in Windows 3.0.
But read the story of the game and its maker who is currently practicing the cider-brewed profession (alcoholic beverage from apples).
A article in reddit reveals that the creator of solitaire never won a single cent from the game and today he works as a cider maker having built the company Dragons Head Cider producing alcoholic products from apples.
"I wrote it for Windows 2.1 in my spare time while doing an internship at Microsoft during the summer of 1988. I had played a similar solitaire game on the Mac instead of studying for the college final exams and wanted a version for myself for Windows. At that time there was an "internal company within the company" called Bogus software. It was basically a server where a bunch of kids were having fun hacking into Windows to learn about APIs, ”Wes Cherry explained.
"A person in charge of the proletterfor the Windows team saw this and decided to include it in Windows 3.0. He made it clear that he would not pay me, only give me an IBM XT computer to fix some bugs during the school year. I was absolutely fine with this agreement, as I am to this day."
If you're wondering what's going on, Wes Cherry has finally worked for Microsoft in the Excel team but in the meantime he has created a second game called Pipe Dream. Although the game was less popular than the Solitaire, it earned some money from it, in the form of Microsoft shares, which it decided to sell later for a few thousand dollars.
