10 Video Games That Changed EVERYTHING When They Launched
3. Minecraft (2011)
As the famous slogan for the game goes: 'Made by a single man...'
Minecraft was created by Markus 'Notch' Persson back in 2011 and has gone onto become one of the most acclaimed and best selling games of all time when it broke past the two hundred million sales mark. Starting out from just a few lines of Java programming code, Minecraft has changed the landscape on how even the smallest and independent of games can find success.
With each and every block-based world promising an unchained amount of creativity and possibility, Minecraft's ridiculously simple premise makes it the perfect title for anyone to pick up and play.
Since its release, Minecraft has also changed the game for all the ways in which has transcended the industry. Social media memes, a resource for schools and educational institutions, a plethora of merchandising and even the birth of huge conventions such as Minecon have become commonplace in the gaming world and they were all born out of Minecraft's boom in popularity.
The most popular sandbox game ever released with an immediately recognisable visual style and plenty of customisable features, there's no end to how groundbreaking the emergence of Minecraft has been on the video gaming industry.