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Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly just Minesweeper, and also known as Flower Field) is a minesweeper-type video game created by Curt Johnson, originally for IBM's OS/2, that was ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time.
Minesweeper has been incorporated as a minigame in other games, such as RuneScape and Minecraft 's 2015 April Fools update. The origin of Minesweeper is unclear. According to TechRadar, the first version of the game was 1990's Microsoft Minesweeper, but Eurogamer says Mined-Out by Ian Andrew (1983) was the first
In Minesweeper for Windows Vista and 7, the game comes with an alternate "Flower Garden" style, alongside the default "Minesweeper" style. [13] 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". [14]
The popular Minesweeper game under older versions of Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by entering the command xyzzy, then pressing the key sequence shift and then enter, which turned a single pixel in the top-left corner of the entire screen into a small black or white dot depending on whether or not the mouse pointer is over a mine ...
Microsoft Gaming is a multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft. It creates video games for various platforms, including Microsoft Windows and the Xbox series of video game consoles.
Xbox Game Studios (formerly Microsoft Games, Microsoft Game Studios and Microsoft Studios) is an American video game publisher that is a division of Microsoft Gaming.The division was created in March 2000 and replaced Microsoft's internal Games Group.
Curt Johnson, the creator of the Microsoft Minesweeper computer game; Curtis Johnson (cornerback) (born 1948), former cornerback; Curtis Johnson (linebacker) (born 1985), American football player; Curtis Johnson (politician) (born 1952), American politician; Curtis Johnson (American football coach) (born 1961), football coach
There are also in-app links to play or download other ad-supported Microsoft-branded games, including Microsoft Mahjong and Microsoft Minesweeper. [17] On August 3, 2021, Microsoft announced that the Premium Edition of the game would be added to their PC Game Pass subscription service (then known as Xbox Game Pass for PC) on August 17, 2021. [18]