High-End Windows Games

My family has a good computer. It has a fast processor, plenty of memory, an excellent graphics card, good speakers and a nice display. It can run the most high end computer games on the market. My parents use it to play Windows Solitaire. Why use a $3000+ machine to play a game that could be run on a pocket calculator?

Every day, people across the nation waste millions of processor cycles by clinging to these old and pedestrian games. Attempts to trick these people into playing the latest incarnation of Quake very rarely succeed. However, with the release of Extreme Windows Games, these insults to our modern and expensive technology will soon become a thing of the past.

In Extreme Solitaire, cards are no longer flat sprites moving around the gamespace, but thin, fully 3D models. When picked up and moved around, they flex slightly in accordance with a physics model factoring in gravity, air resistance and which part of the card you picked up (clicked on). Lighting is fully customizable, allowing the player to alter the number of lights, their type, positions, direction, focus, movement and color. The light is realistically reflected from the cards, the customizable gaming surface and the individual facets of the optional disco ball. The flex of the card in one's hand will also distort both the reflection of this light and the shadow it casts on the playing surface. The acoustic properties of the playing surface, be it wood, fabric, or otherwise, will also affect the soft rustle of the cards as they are moved. The view can be zoomed and rotated around all axes.

So too with the other games in the Extreme Windows Games series. In Extreme Minesweeper, a wrong step will not result in an x-eyed smiley face, but an intricately detailed lighting spectacular. Flames and debris burst outward as the expanding wave fronts detonate each mine in turn, accompanied by appropriate blasts of house-rattling bass. In Extreme Hearts, the expressions of your fully modeled virtual opponents will reflect hatred as the game turns in your favor, barely hidden by polite smiles. And should one manage to win any of these games, one will no longer be "rewarded" by a pack of hopping cards or a smug, sunglass-wearing smiley. Instead, one will be presented with an extravaganza of sound and graphical effects intense enough to bring all but the most high-end systems to their knees.