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Ep. 110: Minesweeper

Video Game History Hour

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The History of Mind Sweeper

Rachel: I wanted to get some of these people are, you know, getting up in years or sadly passed away. She says there's a whole section about a moral panic that evolved around games like mind sweeper and solitaire just because they were built into windows. Rachel: Once everyone got internet access at their computers at work, it really kind of overtook any worries about solitaire. There was an effort by a senator to ban games from any government-owned computer.

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