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PM Mine

Year

1991
Strategy

Flag Mines AND Clear Mines
Platform

OS/2 || 2.0

PM Mine - Game Overview

PM Mine was written in 1991 for OS/2 by Princeton Windowing Systems.

The PM Mine program is a game whose object is to mark all mines and reveal all safe squares. Each square either contains a mine, is empty or contains a number indicating how many mines exist in the surrounding eight (8) squares. The number of mines remaining is on the top left while the number of seconds is displayed on the top right (your 'score'). The left mouse button is used to 'step' on a square and reveal it. If a mine is encountered, you die! If a blank square is revealed (no surrounding mines), all connecting blank and numbered squares are automatically shown.

The right mouse button can be used to mark a mine the first time, and place a question mark the second time. You cannot reveal a marmked mine, but you can reveal a question marked one. marking a third time puts the square back to its normal state. If you have already hit a mine, you can use the right mouse button as a fast restart. When you die, all incorrectly marked mines are shown. If you wish to see all the mines, select the 'Reveal Mines Now' item in the Options menu. If you always want to see the mines when you die, select the 'Reveal Mines When Done' item in the 'Options' menu. You can select the number of mines, columns or rows in a 'custom' grid but no scores are saved in this case. You can save the game, which exits the program. Later, when you restart, the old game is displayed. While playing a game, you can either hit the ESC key or the minimize button to minimize the application and freeze the time. Restoring the application will restart the time from where you left off.

The difficult levels are Novice (10x10 with 12 mines), Challenge (25x15 with 50 mines) and Pro (30x15 with 90 mines) or Custom (up to 32x24 with 768 mines). The best 3 scores per level are saved. There is no chording and you can lose on the first click.