The History of “Minesweeper”

I’ve never found it a particularly engaging, but here’s a history of the Windows solitaire game, “Minesweeper.”

The Minesweeper that we all know and love was created by Robert Donner and Curt Johnson while they were working at Microsoft. It was first released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows in 1990, but in 1992, it replaced Reversi as a pack-in game for Windows 3.1. Minesweeper became a Microsoft staple, and from 3.1 to 95 to XP and beyond, millions upon milions of people across the world turned to Minesweeper when the random chance of Klondike Solitaire became overwhelming.

There’s even a Wikipedia page on it (but, then, isn’t there for everything?).

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