A Minecraft Movie has enjoyed a record-breaking start at the box office, leapfrogging The Super Mario Bros. Movie to secure the biggest domestic debut in history for a video game adaptation. The Xbox game adaptation starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black,

Only three previous movies in history that opened in April had a bigger Friday than A Minecraft Movie in the US--these include Avengers: Endgame ($157.4 million), Avengers: Infinity War ($106.3 million), and Furious 7 ($67.4 million).

What was the most influential video game in history? Super Mario Bros? Doom? Minecraft? Nope, according to a recent poll by BAFTA, it was Sega's 1999 action adventure Shenmue. BAFTA notes that the Dreamcast release was instrumental in the development of open-world gameplay and cinematic storytelling while popularising the use of Quick Time Events (QTEs),