If you look up Expedition To The Barrier Peaks it's a dnd module from the 80s where the party investigates a crashed spaceship and deals with robots and aliens, it's still pretty good I'd say

Infiniminer came before Minecraft and was what directly inspired Minecraft. Off the top of my head UnReal world comes to mind as a survival and sandbox game in that vein and it came out in the 90s. It wasn't a super popular genre at the time.

Fun fact: The song is a Rod Stewart song written for the movie Patch Adams.

You don't get the joke.

I like bagels.

Your data is a little out of date, this article covers the gist of it. https://www.wrdw.com/2025/12/22/georgia-looks-mississippi-help-children-learn-read/

Mississippi school literacy rates are now near the top in the country, they stuck to phonics instead of that new style