Anyone else hate minesweeper?

[Rio]

Why did that used to come with every version of windows? How is it fun?

I never saw anything fun about it.

But solitare, free cell, sim tower, yeah those were fun.

[Ghost Robertson]

⛧ původně napsal:

But did you play spider solitare?

I did them all, like when my granny brought me an 80 games pack, i played them all because of how bored i was. (bad thing was they were all shareware. )

[Xautos]

minesweeper? i remember this, as a kid i played it and never understood what it was about, on a harder difficulty i remember once getting a 120 score of course the harder it is the more mines are on the board.

minesweeper isn't a lot different from the battleship board game where you place your ships down on tiles and the opponent does the same and both of you figure out where each others ships are when attacking squares.

[talemore]

Playing minesweeper
https://youtube.com/shorts/Zz0_4seh9IM?feature=share

[Tonepoet]

kingjames488 původně napsal:

you missed out :S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji6IFDJFr8k

Not really. Skifree was great for a pack-in game. It was probably the best pack-in except for maybe Cadet Pinball. However, to say somebody has missed out is to imply they no longer have the opportunity, and while it is understandable why some people might imagine such is the case, the developer of Skifree has the game up on his own website for it, free for anybody to download[ski.ihoc.net]. Anybody who hasn't already played skifree already should try it. Well, almost anybody.

Regarding the main subject at hand, I think hate is too strong of a word for minesweeper. First of all, Minesweeper didn't really do anything against anybody. It's not like you directly paid for the software, it was packaged with Windows, and to be quite frank, the cost to Microsoft was likely a pittance. They only gave the Skifree dude a flat fee consisting of something like a hundred shares of Microsoft stock with no royalties. Granted, Microsoft stock is relatively valuable and likely appreciated with age, but even going by today's prices, that is only about $3,200, which is very much a pittance for the hundreds of millions of copies of 16 bit Windows systems which included the game that were shipped around the world.

That is probably part of the reason why a game like minesweeper was packed into the O.S. It's a cheap little no frills game that represents added value to the customer that does not really cost Microsoft all that much. Also, Microsoft Windows is something of a productivity suite, so a simplistic game like Minesweeper is a decent enough way to pass the time if you only have like, five or ten minutes to spare while you are on break at the office. You could probably even sneak a game of minesweeper in while the boss ain't lookin' too closely at what it is you are dong, and look more productive than you really are. Some games of the era even included a boss button[en.wikipedia.org] just for that specific purpose. Granted, anybody who took a close look at the computer could probably figure out what you were really doing regardless, so for all practical intents and purposes the boss button was really little more than a gag, but still, you get the idea. It is a quiet little game to pass the time with while you are otherwise bored out of your mind on standby. Another thing to note is that the four games I normally recollect being included with Windows were like, Solitare, Freecell and Hearts and the other three all had one thing in common. They were all Bicycle deck card games. Minesweeper offered people something to do other than play a basic tabletop card game. Anybody with a deck of cards can play Freecell and Solitare, and if you can find a few other players, you can also play a game of hearts. Minesweeper on the other hand, was a true computer game, in that it does not have a tabletop version, and can not be directly converted into a tabletop game.

Second, it is not like the game was implemented poorly or controls are especially bad. There are a bunch of boxes arranged in a grid. You click on one and you see if there is a bomb underneath. Once you click on a box, you get numbers telling you how many bombs are nearby as a sort of hint. The game is even considerate enough that you can't lose on the very first click, since if you click on where a a mine would be on the first click, it shifts the position of that mine to somewhere else. That's a bit important since you don't get those numbers to work off of until after you make a click. You also have the ability to set flags that prevent you from clicking on squares you deduced must be a mine.

Minesweeper is not a game that instills hatred in me. It is competent enough for what it is. It is just not a game that commands my attention, much less enthrall me. It is not a game I would buy if it were offered up for free, but it is simply a mediocre offering. The only thing minesweeper instills in me is apathy, and a sense that it might be a decent enough way to spend the time if I have nothing better to do.

The fact that it is not a very enthralling game might even be a bit of a selling point to the platform. Nobody wants to go through all the effort of developing a computer game, only for the purchaser to say "Yeah, that was good, but it's not as good as the totally free game that came packed in with the system". You want a low bar to clear so that customers of third party software feel like they got their money's worth out of the purchase.

[Xero_Daxter]

I remember as a kid that I didn’t know how to play so I just pressed random spots. Lol.

[Barney, from Black Mesa.]

Grr'. Minesweeper makes mind hurt.

[steven1mac]

I liked it enough to buy Hentai Minesweeper. I think windows included it originally to familiarize users with the mouse.