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One of really cool (personal favorite) games from that era was Hover by Eric Undersander. While not removed, it only runs on Windows with limited resolution options, etc.

I was lucky enough to contact its creator and he agreed to open source it, so I can one day finish a modern cross-platform port that I can enjoy on OS X at 4k resolutions, etc.

https://github.com/shurcooL/Hover#hover

Unlike books, games tend to suffer this fate where you can't easily enjoy the classics from many years ago because they run on proprietary/closed source systems and aren't maintained.

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Talking about extras on Windows, I warmly remember this one, a song by Weezer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4 This video was included on a WIN95 CD with my first computer, along with Hover and a game-like video editor, it's name I cannot recall.

I still remember fondly the MID files that shipped with Windows 95: PASSPORT.MID, CANYON.MID, and the easter egg CLOUDS.MID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoHxMWw354

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIW4F285QjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyfYP-KrNIM

Oh my god, that first track brings memories flooding back. I was a kid! I wonder how many other such things there are out there like this?

I remember that video and the trailer for "Rob Roy" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-2kzujLA8 ) being on there and remember watching both with amazement numerous times at how smooth the video was and how many colors it had (coming from the mostly 256-color Windows 3.1/DOS days).

I felt cheated when I discovered that Windows 3.1 with Video for Windows would play all those Win95 movies identically.

The second song included on Windows 95 CD was "Good times" by Edie Brickell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc

Indeed good times back in 1995, can't believe it's been already 20 years.

One of my best 90s memories.

Microsoft beat you to it: http://hover.ie/

Neither of this looks anything like the Hover! that actually came on the Windows 95 CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQa3OM6zBJ4

Type "bambi"; the original Hover! textures are available as an easter egg. (first level only, unfortunately)

Really? hover.ie looks very similar to me, just with different textures.

Looks really like BZFlag...

The was more than 1 game with the name "Hover".

However, this one had really fun physics-driven gameplay that made it unlike any other game.

I ended up going through a wall and got stuck in a room with no exit.

I managed to fall through an external wall and ended up underneath the map :D

Heh so did I. Kinda funny how the original post was related to collision detection in a different game.

There's some gameplay on YouTube of the 95 version for those who never played it. It's CTF on hovercars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeFEBCwXy0

??? "a game originally created by Eric Undersander in 2000."

That and the pictures on the page you link make me think that is not the same Hover that was included in Windows 95: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover%21

It's a different game.

Was it ever included with Windows?

(I think most other posters think you're referring to the Hover! I linked, which, like Pinball in the OP, was included with Windows.)

I used to have the disc with hover and weezer song buddy holly. My favorite old windows game tho had to be Rodents Revenge. Between that and snake I could spend hours wasting time.

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