I guess Alice can let us know how it goes if she gets accepted. "By submitting a contact form, you agree to release CineMassive from any liability resulting from, or related to using the Minesweeper Super Challenge game." Presumably this means RSI is totally your problem, kid.ħ. Imagine being on your death bed and whispering to the empty air "well, at least I played twelve hours of Minesweeper".Ħ. Imagine all the things you could do in those twelve hours. Imagine your cat jumping up, seeking attention, food, warmth, putting a paw on the controls and. Imagine your finger slipping eleven hours in as you start to lose concentration. Imagine being in your room at home for twelve hours playing that one game of Minesweeper. They use high definition sonar to scour the worlds seabeds for mines and. "Total playing time is limited to no more than 12 hours per individual." The six Hunt Class Mine Counter Measure Vessels specialise in active mine hunting. So that's 8 fewer screens than the one in the trailer, right? So are the cells being scaled down or are there fewer mines or what?ĥ. The terms and conditions stipulate that the game will be played out on a 16xHD wall. Potentially you could find a yawning chasm of existential despair though so that's something.Ĥ. ![]() what? Take a mouse and just play a sprawling multiscreen game of Minesweeper designed to advertise a giant video wall on your regular screen at home? If you as the player don't need the video wall who is it for? Who is anything for? What is the point of anything?ģ. "Test your skills on our video wall - from the comfort of your home!" - so you. Microsoft's version of Minesweeper which is the one they are talking about is regularly given a release date around 1990 so it'd be good to know where the 30th anniversary thing even comes from.Ģ. ![]() The whole thing is purportedly "In honor of the 30th anniversary of Minesweeper". I'm currently filling it in with Alice's details and here are a few thoughts:ġ. Were I to want to experience such hopelessness I could complete a form requesting to play the challenge. I wonder if playing such an enormous version would trigger some kind of existential panic over the sheer awful pointlessness, the waste of hours of life. The combination of luck and logic were far more frustrating than they were pleasing and the victories and defeats felt equally nothingy. Minesweeper was a simple way to teach people to use a mouse interface but it was no Spider Solitaire. I must have spent hours on it before I graduated to Spider Solitaire, a game so addictive that I have had to uninstall it from several operating systems over the course of my life. Minesweeper was probably the first PC game I ever played. It spreads across 24 screens with a total of 38,799 mines to deal with on expert mode. ![]() Either way, " Minesweeper Super Challenge" now exists. Today I learned that either that has been a real ongoing project for the last three decades or that a company called CineMassive really wants to promote the fact that they have HD video wall technology. "Let us wear ever-larger shoulder pads that we may be better people and construct ever-larger temples made from Minesweeper to our new digital gods." We talked about landmines at the start of the meeting to raise awareness."Bigger is better," opined the zeitgeist of the 'eighties. If they get it wrong, make a note of it.Īt the end of the meeting, see who found the most number of bombs, and the winner is the one who lost the least lives and/or number of incorrect bombs. When they know where the bomb is, they go to the cell and "mark it as dangerous" (by telling you). The scouts then have to wander around the neighbourhood, working out where the bombs are. InstructionsĮach group of scouts goes to a place on the map, and if they believe it is safe, they tell you they know it is safe, and you tell them what is there - which will either be a bomb (in which case, they lose a life), a number (you tell them the number), or a blank area (then you tell them the coordinates of the entire blank area, and their adjacent numbers). Map of local area, turned into grids - printed for each small group of scouts.Īnother map, with bomb & numbers added, printed for each leader. Who remember's the 1990s and playing Minesweeper? This is a real-life version! Resources 2 days ago &0183 &32 Able Seaman Johnny Payne, who has died aged 98, was the last known survivor of the P Parties, or human minesweepers, a secret navy formed during the Second Word War. ![]() Copyright Infringement View in OSM UK Description
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