Highlights from the kids involved:

“Yeah, you don’t know cuz you’re a grown up… You hardly do this… You have work to do!”

and the kid describing Mario:

“It’s weird.”

I would’ve been about the same age as these kids back then. The only game console we ever had in that era was the Sega Master System, with games like Operation Wolf (light-gun!!) and Alex Kidd in Miracle World. We also had a PC, so I tended to play that more often (games like Lemmings, Commander Keen and the original platform Duke Nukem). I missed out on the golden age of Nintendo, aside from playing a Super Nintendo at a friend’s house.

Sad.

This video still makes me nostalgic as hell.

I meant to post this a while back. Minecraft is a great little game that’s been something of a phenomenon within the past year, with over one and a half million copies sold. The way I always describe Minecraft is your own virtual world to craft, much like playing with Lego. Oh, plus monsters. Anyway, 2 Player Productions have been in the process of making a full-length documentary about the man (and the team) behind Minecraft. In the mean time, this 20 minute video was released in an attempt to drum up enough funds to film a full-length feature, which the team have now done. It’s really interesting, and gives a good insight into how the game and the team came about.

Because of the sandbox nature of Minecraft, it has a ton of potential uses. One such potential use is using the game to teach – read about how one teacher in New York City implemented the game into his computer class at his Minecraft Teacher Blog.