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I don't know much about Minecraft other than that it seems to function as the Oregon Trail of the current generation of kids in Japan (i.e. it's the most entertaining game you're allowed to play at school - granted we only got to see if we could avoid getting dysentery back in the day on the rare occasions when we had a class in the computer lab, while kids today get to whip out their school-provided tablets and play Education Edition Minecraft whenever they've got a free minute between classes.) But it must be a pretty decent game if kids are still playing it all these years later. This issue, from 2015, previews a Minecraft clone...but it's Dragon Quest themed. And yet here we are 10 years later, and the kids are still playing Minecraft, while Dragon Quest Builders is all but forgotten. If a Dragon Quest Minecraft clone can't compete with the original in Japan, you know it's got something.

MegaFan Volume 1 Issue 2 (July-August 1997)

This mag was ravaged by time, scanned by J of Oz, and edited with excruciatingly time-consuming exactitude by moi.

Big thanks to @bogusfrank for preserving these! Please make sure to thank him

Nintendo Power Issue 093 (February 1997) Issue donated by Benjamin Alldritt.

Ultra Game Players 95 (March 1997)(U)

The new face of graphic adventure.