2014/15 but started to play much later

Man i loved the world of color update, and when minecraft was free that was great. it was like a little flash game but it had potential!

I watched tons of Yogscast before I actually got to play Minecraft. Very long time of desperately wanting to play before I got it on Xbox 360.

I'm going with 2019 since I don't remember the old netherack texture. I'm pretty sure I knew about the game before that but my memory is bad

i first heard about it around 2014-2015 but I first played it around 1.9 (2016)

17-18

Didn't start playing until mid[]sh] 2011, but I'd heard of it previously so whether that was before 01Jan2011 is likely lost to time.

I first heard of the Pocket Edition back in 2012, when I saw my cousins playing it with their iPods and iPads. The gameplay was oddly simple, yet fascinating to watch; so after asking my parents to spend $6.99, the rest was history.

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Twas a couple of friends of mine, they had it on a computer of theirs, and showed me a build they were putting together in creative mode. I felt I wanted to try it out, but we didn't stay on it long.

I first heard of it in 2014, playing it first with friends and finally getting my own account many months later in early 2015. I vividly remember learning crafting recipes using the finger method, where you'd point to different segments of different fingers as if it's a crafting grid.

We were living overseas at the time, but I was introduced to MC (in 2012-13, not entirely sure) by someone in a family who we had met there (to be honest, I legitimately have no idea how we knew them, though I have some vague recollections).

Our parents went out for the night I believe, so we stayed at their house. Me, I've always been kind of interested in games (fun to play, admittedly a simple reason), and he happened to have an XBox, and showed me some games he had.
That was my first encounter with MC, and I think the original reason I somewhat liked it, of all things, was because it reminded me of Lego. It did the one thing I had always wished Lego games had done: be able to build anything within it.

I only played it once, but I remember the next time we went over, I was somewhat disappointed when I found out he had sold/traded it to do some other games.

Played scattered times with other people who had it in later years (all on XBox, except once on a PS3 I think?), and I legitimately started to love the game, even though till like 2019, I had played it less than 10 times.

iirc i first found out about the game via my brother and him playing the raspberry pi edition. (can't remember if it came preinstalled on his pi, or if he downloaded it off the web) but i do remember seeing stuff about the frostburn update around the same time so this had to be mid-2016

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