Minesweeper Game Database

Minefield (1984)



Overview
Minefield was published for the Commodore 64 in 1984 by Kevin Bergin.

The game is a 35*19 grid with hidden mines. The first game starts with 20 mines and this increases by 2 mines each game regardless of whether you have won or lost the level. The mine detector works in diagonal directions and tells you the number of mines within two moves of your location.


Platforms
  • 1984 - Commodore 64

Companies
No companies have been added for this game.

People
  • Kevin Bergin


Game Lineage
Landmine (1983)

The book "Commodore 64 Games" states "this is a version of Minefield adapted from one originally written for the PET". This sentence correctly credits the genre to Minefield (1979) but the game is actually based on Landmine (1983) from the book "VIC Games". Bergin also wrote a book called "VIC Games" but left Minefield out of his edition.


Game Attributes

The following attributes can be used to map the evolution of Minesweeper. Blue cells are confirmed attributes for official versions of Minefield. Yellow cells are unknown.

Mined-Out (1983)
Minefield Variants
Minefield (1979)
Mines (1987)
Minesweeper (1990)
Minesweeper Variants


[ ALL ] [ Commodore 64 ]

Releases
ID 147
[Machine] Commodore 64
Published no later than 1984-01-31. Advertised in the January 1984 issue of Personal Computer World magazine.


PDF (BASIC)
Code ✓
English
Book listing.
ZIP (TAP)
Code ✓
English
Virtual tape with all games. LOAD "MINEFIELD". Use LIST to see code.


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Images
ID 147
[Machine] Commodore 64
Published no later than 1984-01-31. Advertised in the January 1984 issue of Personal Computer World magazine.


Gameplay
Gameplay
Instructions
Instructions
New game
New game
Won game
Won game


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Credits
ID 147
[Machine] Commodore 64
Published no later than 1984-01-31.


Kevin Bergin
source: Book - Credits
as "Kevin Bergin"
"by"


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Collect

Commodore 64 Games || Collect ID 16 || Edition ID 39 || 1984 || 0715617974 (ISBN10) || 9780715617977 (EAN13)

Cover (front) ISBN13 version
Cover (front) ISBN13 version
Cover (back) ISBN13 version
Cover (back) ISBN13 version
Copyright ISBN13 version
Copyright ISBN13 version


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Promos
Personal Computer World Vol. 7 No. 1 (1984)


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Trivia
  • According to his Amazon author profile, "I wrote my first book in the early 80's, it was called Commodore 64 Games. It was published in 1984 by Duckworth's in London and was followed by 10 other books mostly to do with games creation and a couple of them were far more technical."
  • Bergin also published "VIC Games" in 1984 but the 19 games in this book did not include Minefield.


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Print

  • Personal Computer World, Vol. 7 No. 1, (p333)
    https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1984-01/page/332/mode/2up
    Advertisement (publisher) for release ID147. Date published 1984-01-00. Earliest known Personal Computer World book promo.

  • Commodore User, Vol. 1 Issue 8, (p84)
    https://archive.org/details/Commodore_User_Magazine_Issue_008/page/84/mode/2up
    Advertisement (publisher) for release ID147. Date published 1984-05-00. Earliest known Commodore User book promo.

  • Big-K, No. 5, (p83)
    https://archive.org/details/05-big-k-magazine/page/n83/mode/2up
    Advertisement (publisher) for release ID147. Date published 1984-08-00. Earliest known Big-K book promo.

  • Commodore Computing International, Vol. 3 No. 3, (p22)
    https://archive.org/details/Commodore_Computing_International_Vol_03_No_03_1984-09_Croftward_GB/page/n21/mode/2up
    Advertisement (publisher) for release ID147. Date published 1984-09-00. Earliest known Commodore Computing International book promo.

  • NZ Bits and Bytes, Vol. 3 No. 2, (p72)
    https://archive.org/details/nzbitsandbytes-3-02/page/n73/mode/2up
    Advertisement (publisher) for release ID147. Date published 1984-10-00. Earliest known NZ Bits and Bytes book promo.

  • Commodore 64 Games, (p91)
    https://commodore.bombjack.org/books/commodore/books/Commodore_64_Games_(Duckworth).zip
    Code for release ID147, ID147. Date published 1984-00-00.