...and I'm only just now realizing that the packaging design of Campbell's Soup is surprisingly similar to that of cigarette boxes... hmmmmmmmmm... >_>
If this is just 'match the tiles', I'm pretty sure in owned this game. Interestingly, I have absolutely no memory of what the floppy looks like, so I'm unsure where I would have gotten it...
I'm pretty sure I had it as part of a compilation collection that also included the first two games in a point-and-click-and-type-commands-adventure series.
Had to look it up: it was Hugo's House of Horrors and the sequel Hugo II, Whodunit?, but did not include Hugo III, Jungle of Doom! which I still have not played yet to this day.
Do you have the name of this comp? I definitely had Hugo as well, but don't remember if I had that one as its own floppy or not. Vaguely remember a simple white lable with black text that said to type "hugo" to start, so it could have been the same comp.
oh I have absolutely no idea any more, sorry. Just remembered that it contained the Hugo games and the Mahjongg solitaire; oh and the shareware version of some chemistry-themed drop-in-match-3 thingy.
Wait so are you familiar with old Mahjong games? Is one of these games you mentioned, the one with the tileset that was flags from around the world and had sound effects? I've been looking for that thing since Windows became a thing and I haven't been able to find it at all. Pretty sure it was DOS.
DOS shareware was part of my childhood too and I'm so glad to know that I'm not alone! Now you've got me thinking of old games I used to play. Might have to go search them up. Thanks for jogging my memory about old games!
My mum adored those games - kept asking me to use my university Internet access to download more tile sets for her. Even made a few especially for her.
My gaze happened to land on the "Bean w/ Bacon" can and I was instantly reminded that you can make an interstellar spaceship out of those if you have an IQ of 314.
You have blasted me back a good 30 years. Fond memories of playing this on my grandparents' PC, but never knew exactly which Mahjong game it was. Bookmarked to get lost in it later on. 💜
I played a little of the DOS one but my dad had the Windows 3.1 one that he played at work during long night shifts when very little was happening. I think it's still buried in the recesses of my documents folder somewheres.
We do have weirdos like you who have, in the past, uploaded "fixed for modern machines" DOS programs that they futzed with to run better.
I will say, for what little help it is, that there is some graphical aspect to DOS that our em-DOSBOX absolutely blasts into slow-mo mode over. This might be it.
it may be honestly easier to go find my own mahjong solitaire code (I made a Mahjong Solitaire game back in, uhh... 2010?) and porting that to run in the browser.
“two names and three genders ago” reminds me of a professor I had in college, whose story of her transition always included a portion about “the six-hour period where [she] had three legal names and two legal genders.” (by the time I met her, she was down to two legal names and two legal genders.)
"Like" five computers. In your case, that's unlikely to be even a fractional number of computers: probability of this being a multi-dimensional complex number tends towards 1 😅
I have a few HTML5 games from that era that inexplicably still work, though I dare not look at the code. Fewer life changes overall, though I had a kid shortly thereafter.
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WHY IS THE SOUP RUSSIAN ?
https://archive.org/details/dos_Mahj
and you can get tilesets here:
https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Mah_Jongg_-V-G-A-.html
I have never gazed upon something I have hated yet loved so much.
and with this alternate tileset, it doesn't even use those!
Or is that Soleau Software?
I think it's related to the Nels Ansersen game, but I'm not sure of the exact details.
Happy days.
Look at this win screen though. That's a treasure. Infinite pile of soup cans.
Thanks for uploading this.
https://bsky.app/profile/foone.bsky.social/post/3lnl3ydoqfs2o
https://archive.org/details/mahjong_soup
This game has some weird code, it runs slightly strange even in local dosbox. I'll have to figure out why it's like this
I will say, for what little help it is, that there is some graphical aspect to DOS that our em-DOSBOX absolutely blasts into slow-mo mode over. This might be it.
I didn't think of trying chrome until after I had it running in dosbox.
* fifteen years
* two names
* three states
* eight apartments/houses
* three genders
* and like five computers ago
https://archive.org/details/MJWINSOUP
:-)
When you finished it, a Betty Boop cartoon would play.
We'd gather around when someone was finishing it up to watch.