Minesweeper... 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). Minesweeper has its origins in the earliest mainframe games of the 1960s and 1970s. The earliest ancestor of Minesweeper was Jerimac Ratliff's Cube. The basic gameplay style became a popular segment of the puzzle game genre during the 1980s.
Brush up on your Minesweeper history here.
Do you know what an actual Minesweeper is? I didn't either until I read this.
- If you hit a mine... game over, homie.
- Win by uncovering all the cells without mines!
(get it... MINE... SWEEPER...?)