I decided to roll with the OG Windows '95 look. Win by uncovering all the cells without mines!.Use 'Shift + Click' to add flags to a cell if you think it's a mine.
*The numbers depict how many mines are adjacent to any given cell. I remember my first experience with computers in the 90's involved playing this game a lot, so I thought what better game than this to come full circle? Anyways, here are the basic rules: Basic Gameplay ( (video_game))ĭo you know what an actual Minesweeper is? I didn't either until I read. The basic gameplay style became a popular segment of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s.īrush up on your Minesweeper history. The earliest ancestor of Minesweeper was Jerimac Ratliff's Cube. Minesweeper has its origins in the earliest mainframe games of the 1960s and 1970s. yep, that old classic game you remember playing on good ol' Windows '95 back in the day (in fact it was implemented in Microsoft's software updates until Windows 8).