Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

OK, I'm late to the party. I'm a 42 year old engineer who has been playing computer games since Lemonade Stand on my Apple II+. I remember thinking Zork was awesome. For those who don't know, neither of those games actually had graphics... So, when I started hearing about Minecraft I thought, "Huh?" I piddled with it a little and it was this clunky looking Java based game and I couldn't really understand the appeal it. I derided it as a jumbled up, incoherent mess, and I wasn't really wrong, but... I hate being wrong. My son started getting older. We bought Minecraft on the PC. We bought Pocket Edition on his Kindle Fire. I installed a private server for him and his friends on our Synology Rackstation (see my blog page about how to to do that). I even played a little while testing those things. Still: meh. Somehow about 3 months ago my son, now almost 9, sucked me in. Geez. We're now on our "Mark II" Pocket Edition survival world sharing between his Kindle Fire and my Windows 10 Beta version, and we have a system of rails, lava motes, redstone equipment (omigosh, I'm tediously creating digital systems!?!) and I'm completely hooked.... So, I stepped up and bought a 2nd PC copy because the Pocket Edition doesn't quite cut it, and I want to play on our server. The digital purchase on Amazon works as expected. No complaints. The price is the same as elsewhere but if you have a reason to buy things on Amazon then buying here makes sense. As for the game, it's still a bit of a mess, but it's a fun mess, and no, the graphics aren't complicated, but we've gotten too obsessed with graphics and forgotten about gameplay. Zork is still awesome. So is Minecraft. Note: The full "PC" (Java) version of Minecraft includes a free copy of the Windows 10 Edition. The Windows 10 edition is based on Pocket Edition, which is great if you want to play with people using tablets from your computer (we host the world on the computer when doing this, so it does the hard work): Minecraft - Pocket Edition