AGameAWeek Gold peeks back at games I've released on this day in history.
Sometimes they're great, Occasionally they're terrible, but usually they're odd.

There are some games that you can pick up, tweak a little thing, and end up with a much different sort of game.
Pacman->Blockman is a great example of this sort of mechanic-tweaking.
Other times, however, there's not really a whole lot you can do to a game.
There's no room for fiddling, without breaking what it is that makes that game so special.-=-=-

2008 - Minesweeper

Minesweeper is a classic example of a gameplay mechanic that I've failed to improve on multiple attempts.
No matter what I try to do to Minesweeper, it usually ends up being a bog standard Minesweeper clone!
Hmm..
This is a bog standard Minesweeper clone.
The game gets progressively tougher, and the game is made as more of an Arcade Style game, with a little timer ticking over, and the levels being a bit more "open" than a normal Windows-Minesweeper might be.
The gameplay's the same, though.
There's not too much you can do with Minesweeper!!

You can Download Minesweeper here for Windows.