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The six-year old widely popular sandbox video game "Minecraft" from Swedish game designer Markus "Notch" Persson and Mojang is one of today's best selling games. But what most don't know is that Nintendo almost made the game for N64, or something similar to it. Here's why it didn't happen.

VG247 reports that Shigeru Miyamoto, who is responsible for the games found in the NES Classic Edition, admitted that he came close to making something like "Minecraft" for the N64. Miyamoto is credited for his work on iconic video games "Donkey Kong," "Mario," "The Legend of Zelda," and more.

According to IGN, Miyamoto admires "Minecraft" and feels as if the game was something Nintendo "should have made." He also admitted that back in the day, he and his

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