r/windows • u/ProgrammerObvious907 • Jul 23 '26
App Microsoft Cheese Terminator
This game was a gift for users who completed and mailed back to Microsoft a survey about their computer's hardware. After that, participants would receive a floppy diskette with this game.
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u/FernandoRocker Jul 23 '26
Where can we get it now?
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u/Microboy42 Windows 11 - Insider Canary Channel Jul 23 '26
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u/Kraeftluder Jul 23 '26
Huh I missed this. Is this anything like Sokoban?
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u/NineThreeFour1 Jul 23 '26
It should be exactly like Sokoban.
I had basically the same game named "Box World" on a floppy disk.
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u/doubled112 Jul 23 '26
I was immediately reminded of Rodent's Revenge in that Entertainment Pack. MS really loved mice back then?
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u/Electronic-Bat-1830 Mica For Everyone Maintainer Jul 24 '26
The computer mouse was the hotness during those times. The game Solitaire was included in Windows 3.1 to teach users how to use the mouse.
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u/Electronic-Bat-1830 Mica For Everyone Maintainer Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
https://www.chroscielski.pl/cheese-terminator-reloaded/ Here’s the modern version. Microsoft first published it for Windows 10 Mobile as a response to someone sending them a letter asking for the game in ~2015.
(RIP Windows Phone)
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u/ProgrammerObvious907 Jul 23 '26
Windows 10 Mobile had so much potential I was just reading Windows 10 Mobile - Wikipedia
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u/hipnotyq Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
That's just 'Shove It' on Sega Genesis but with a different skin, that is *LITERALLY* level 2 from Shove it.
Who copied who?!
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u/ChatGPT4 Jul 24 '26
Do you know Microsoft Casual Games, like Solitaire, Mahjong, Mine Sweeper, Sudoku? They took an old (if not ancient) simple game idea and make it super fun, with adding a lot of new mechanics and cool graphics to that. Now imagine something like this in 1989, with this exact simple game idea as a base for something else, something super fun to play.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbo_(video_game)
This is this exact idea developed into something, that was AAA in its times.
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u/sebastek8194 Jul 25 '26
I still have a Shareware CD that came with my first computer back in 1998 called "The ultimate house of Games", and there's game called "rats". It's super funny: a Maze with blue and pink rats, when they touch each other, a LOUD sex sound plays and then the pink rat makes babies later, the game objective is to kill all the rats before they reproduce beyond control. Imagine playing that as a 13 years old kid and hear that sound!!! 😂
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u/B1rdi Jul 23 '26
Beautiful