Minecraft - My First Extended Exposure
The best selling video game of all time got another sale: me. I mostly avoided the first wave of Minecraft popularity after it came out. I played a bit of some online hosted version around 2011-2012. After that, I played the PS4 version that I checked out from the public library around November 2016. Beyond that? Minecraft was basically just that game that everyone else plays. It seemed fine, but it never pulled me in. That changed when my kids watched A Minecraft Movie (2025). They watched it first at a friend's house, then again when our local library hosted a showing of the audience participation version. They were throwing popcorn and screaming when the chicken jockey popped up, but I just dismissed it as kids being kids. On the way home after the movie, my oldest asked if we could get Minecraft. My youngest had already played it some from our family library on Android . I figured we could pick up the PC release and play it together. In particular, I wanted to see if I could ...