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Mined-Out was an early Minesweeper-style game and preceded the popular 1990 Windows inclusion Microsoft Minesweeper by several years. The two share important similarities such as a grid layout and a display showing the number of adjacent mines.
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In Minesweeper for Windows Vista and 7, the game comes with an alternate "Flower Garden" style, alongside the default "Minesweeper" style. [12] This is due to controversy over the original land mine theme of the game being potentially insensitive, and the "Flower Garden" style was used as the default theme in "sensitive areas". [13]
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Japanese minesweeper Tama Maru (1936) Japanese minesweeper Tama Maru (1939) Japanese minesweeper Tama Maru No. 2; Japanese minesweeper Tama Maru No. 3; Japanese minesweeper Tama Maru No. 5; Japanese minesweeper Tama Maru No. 6; Japanese minesweeper Tama Maru No. 7
[2] [3] She was requisitioned in 1941 by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and converted into a minesweeper. On 10 March 1942, during the invasion of Lae-Salamaua, Tama Maru No. 2 was damaged by Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers from the United States Navy aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown off Lae, New Guinea.
In May 1942, she participated in the Battle of Midway (Operation "MI") where she was assigned to Miyamoto Sadachika's 16th Minesweeper Unit (along with auxiliary minesweepers Tama Maru No. 3, Tama Maru No. 5, Showa Maru No. 7; submarine chasers CH-16, CH-17, and CH-18; cargo ships Meiyo Maru and Yamafuku Maru; and auxiliary ammunition ship Soya ...