{"id":10281,"date":"2007-02-28T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/28\/the-history-of-minesweeper.html"},"modified":"2007-02-28T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:21:38","slug":"the_history_of_minesweepe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/the_history_of_minesweepe.html","title":{"rendered":"The History of “Minesweeper”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve never found it a particularly engaging, but here’s a history of the Windows solitaire game, “Minesweeper.”<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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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<\/cite> in 1990, but in 1992, it replaced Reversi as a pack-in game for Windows 3.1. Minesweeper<\/cite> 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s even a Wikipedia page<\/a> on it (but, then, isn’t there for everything?).<\/p>\n


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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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128905,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/thirty-years-of-windows.html","url_meta":{"origin":10281,"position":0},"title":"Thirty years of Windows","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Nov-15 3:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It took a while (3.1 at least, but really 95) for Windows to be more convenient to use for me than DOS. 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