Minesweeper was one of the first games to be installed on the Windows interface. It was developed by engineer Robert Doner in 1989 and became popular as a result of the Windows versions.
Despite the addiction of having to clear a minefield, the game was not invented as a source of entertainment. It first appeared in 1992 with the aim of familiarizing the user with the operation of the mouse, the left and right buttons, and the precision of the click.
One of the secrets of the success of this game is that it is programmed so that a bomb cannot explode at the first click. This allows the user to get hooked.
Bill Gates himself is said to have found it so entertaining and addictive that he had to uninstall it.
