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Napoleon Solitaire

Napoleon Solitaire is a shareware solitaire suite containing twenty-one variations on Forty Thieves solitaire also known as Napoleon at St Helena, Roosevelt, San Juan. The basic game is played with two decks…

31 December 1998

Napoleon Solitaire is a strategy developed by Goodsol Development, released 31 December 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Napoleon Solitaire is

Napoleon Solitaire is a strategy game developed by Goodsol Development and released in 1998. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Napoleon Solitaire is a shareware solitaire suite containing twenty-one variations on Forty Thieves solitaire also known as Napoleon at St Helena, Roosevelt, San Juan. The basic game is played with two decks of cards. It has eight foundations where cards are built upwards by suit from ace to king and ten stacks of four cards ( this is where the forty thieves name originates.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Napoleon Solitaire launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.

Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.

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When did Napoleon Solitaire come out?
Napoleon Solitaire was released on 31 December 1998 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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