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Cruel

Cruel is a solitaire card game based on Perseverance. Cruel became popular when it was published as video game for Microsoft Windows by Microsoft in 1990 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows…

31 December 1990

Cruel is a video game developed by Microsoft, released 31 December 1990 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Cruel is

Cruel was developed by Microsoft and released in 1990. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Cruel is a solitaire card game based on Perseverance. Cruel became popular when it was published as video game for Microsoft Windows by Microsoft in 1990 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3.0.
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What it launched against

Cruel launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku and A-Train.

Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train.

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Quick answers

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When did Cruel come out?
Cruel was released on 31 December 1990 for PC (Microsoft Windows).