Bonzi's Solitaire
Bonzi's Solitaire is the Solitaire game built into the 1999 desktop assistant Bonzi Buddy. Bonzi Buddy is a discontinued freeware desktop virtual assistant created by Joe and Jay Bonzi. Upon a user's choice…
Bonzi's Solitaire is a card & board game developed by Bonzi Software, released 31 December 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Bonzi's Solitaire is
Bonzi's Solitaire is a card & board game game developed by Bonzi Software and released in 1999. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bonzi's Solitaire is the Solitaire game built into the 1999 desktop assistant Bonzi Buddy. Bonzi Buddy is a discontinued freeware desktop virtual assistant created by Joe and Jay Bonzi. Upon a user's choice, it would share jokes and facts, manage downloads, sing songs, and talk, among other functions. People called it spyware after it was found out to have collected user's personal information before serving them pop-up ads. Because of this, it had to pay $75k in fines, and was discontinued in 2004.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Bonzi's Solitaire launched on 31 December 1999, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2.
Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.
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