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Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers. The game features a grid of clickable tiles, with hidden "mines" (depicted as naval mines in the original game) scattered throughout the board. The objective is to clear the board without detonating any mines, with help from clues about the number of ...
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. First released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990, it was first ...
Minesweeper. Minesweeper J 636 underway in British coastal waters during World War II. A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. [1]
Over-the-top violence in such video games as Mortal Kombat and Doom drew hand-wringing moral outrage from worrywart parents and government scolds throughout the '90s.Minesweeper—in which players ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. Minesweepers by country (51 C) Minesweepers by navy (53 C)
HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen is a Jan van Amstel -class minesweeper of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN). Built during the 1930s, she was based in the Dutch East Indies when Japan attacked at the end of 1941. Ordered to retreat to Australia, the ship was disguised as a tropical island to avoid detection, and was the last Dutch ship to escape from the ...
7 AMD-1000 naval mines or 32 depth charges. underwater mine searcher MKT-210. Sweeps BKT, AT-3, TEM-4. The Natya class, Soviet designation Project 266M Akvamarin, are a group of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy and export customers during the 1970s and 1980s. The ships were used for ocean minesweeping.
Dance-class minesweeper (14 ships, launched 1917–1919) tunnel-screw coastal minesweeping sloops. Racecourse-class minesweeper (32 ships in 2 sub-classes, launched 1916—1918) paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops. Halcyon -class minesweeper (7 reciprocating and 14 turbine ships, launched 1933—1939) twin-screw minesweeping sloops.