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Major clone: Minesweeper

RalfRalf
edited January 2013 in Infoseek database
Martijn, maybe if you find some time you could think of adding Minesweeper inspired games to Major Clones category?

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/features.html#clones

Some titles:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekadv.cgi?what=1®exp=sapper

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekadv.cgi?what=1®exp=minesweeper

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003213
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012949
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012955

And there is also a problem of naming the original game as there were many Minesweepers in history or better to say games involving moving through a minefield. Currently WOS says something like this:

Inspired by: unknown (original game: Minesweeper)


I guess we can safely say that all the Spectrum versions made after 1990 were inspired by the Minesweeper coming together with Windows:

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2007/02/column_beyond_tetris_minesweep.php

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
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