Initially released on Janubefore gaining further exposure through being present at Macworld Expo, Microshaft Winblows 98 was praised by magazines and newspapers, mostly for its clever and blunt humor.īill Gates while in a district court for United States v. case and at a time when Microsoft, Windows, and Gates were easy targets for jokes, the game offers a satirical take on this ripe subject matter.ĭeveloped by Parroty Interactive, the self-professed National Lampoon of the interactive media industry, Microshaft Winblows 98 became the company's fourth interactive comedy video game, after Pyst which is a clone of adventure video game Myst, Star Warped which is a satire of science-fiction film series Star Wars, and The X-Fools, a spoof of supernatural TV series The X Files, respectively. Released by Palladium Interactive during the United States v. It parodies the then-popular Windows 98 operating system, as well as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Microshaft Winblows 98 is a 1998 interactive comedy video game for Windows and the Classic Mac OS.
