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  • AAA Mario (1m41s video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMh_APo2Xss
    by MYEUHD
  • There is also the classic "Minesweeper - The Movie"[1]

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

    by grumbel
  • 36 goddamn seconds, mere moments are waking and, for what?! stabbed in the back again. i knew she wasn't good for it, why didn't i trust my instincts. all those people, so many goddamn people, and now this?! i ain't sweeping no more, i'm out.
    by willguest
  • Nice but the logos are skippable, which is not realistic.
    by NSUserDefaults
  • I have not seen any comment about the idea that you are being handholded through whole game without even needing to think about what to do next.

    For me this is the biggest complaint about some games where instead of making a player think what to do and how to navigate game, player basically gets "click her" "go that way" "click that" "congrats you won"

    so i think this is the parody aspect of this minesweeper.

    Cant imagine current AAA games allowing player to be stuck for days trying to solve the problem like good old times of monkey island or leisure suit larry

    by vincnetas
  • Pretty close but they forgot the part where I have to install anti cheat, update my drivers and reboot, create an account and link my email, check my email for a code, accept ToS, compile shaders, and wait for more patches to install before playing.
    by seabass
  • So good.

    Maybe lean into some of the metal gear solid dialogue by having a long back and forth about "What's a mine?" "What do you mean 'mark a mine'?" "How do I know when I'm done?" etc.

    by devin
  • Amazing. Sat there for about five minutes listening to the dialogue, wasn't until I started hearing repeats that I realized it was actually interactive and not just an unnecessarily long opening cutscene.

    Incidentally, as of Windows 8, Microsoft replaced OG Minesweeper with an overdesigned mobile game-inspired app with daily challenges and in-game purchases[1].

    I've been carrying the orignal versions of Minesweeper and Solitaire from (checks Properties) Windows NT 3.51 in my "random bin" directory for years, chosen, I believe, because they're 32-bit, have none of the graphical changes introduced in later versions, and don't rely on any non-core system DLLs. They still run fine under Windows 11, though you have to jump through hoops to open their help files (namely, dig up a copy of winhlp32.exe and open them from within it, because modern Windows versions block the ability to add file associations for .hlp files, instead redirecting to a series of progressively less useful web sites).

    [1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhwcn?hl=en-US&gl=U...

    by jasomill

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