Javascript Game - MineSweeper

Minesweeper is based on the original game written by Robert Donner and Curt Johnson and comes for free with Microsoft Windows operating system. The version below is an online version of the original game.

The object of Minesweeper is to locate all the mines as quickly as possible without uncovering any of them. If you uncover a mine, you lose the game.

Please note: Minesweeper currently is NOT functioning

Overview

This is a very complete version, a fixed grid, a timer, custom graphics, javascript based.
Feel free to download this version to your website, all that is required is a credit.
Download the online version of Minesweeper v1.0

The origins of Minesweeper

A Robert Donner email (referenced from the metanoodle.com site):

"I'm originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba and started work at Microsoft in 1989. Minesweeper was my first Windows program. The original version was written over a weekend and had 'coins' which you could collect. I seem to have lost the version with a foot cursor to stomp on the squares. It changed into a bloody stump with dripping blood when you stepped on a mine. For some reason, they didn't want to ship with that feature..."

"Curt Johnson and I started at Microsoft about the same time. He had a program for OS/2 with the original grid/number graphics and was involved in some of the inital random ideas we had for the game. ...
- Rob"
(for the full article see the link below)

References:
Original script by Robert Donner and Curt Johnson

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