Vertical lines on Macbook Pro

These vertical lines starting coming on the Macbook Pro when restarting it and if it show the vertical lines, it would just go to a white screen and I'd have to do this a few times until the lines stopped appearing - I found leaving it on the white screen for a few minutes helped before restarting it then the lines would not appear and the macbook pro would restart fine - THIS OCCURRED BEGINNING OF JULY
This then stopped happening near the end of july or beginning of August for some reason. It then started again, when I installed Minecraft, but it only occurred for a few days. I've been playing Minecraft fine.
It recently started again last week, and the macbook pro would either show a screen of a colour e.g. blue/brown then turn off and a few attempts were made to restart the macbook pro. (This was upon playing Minecraft).
Playing Minecraft was fine for a few days without the Macbook Pro switching off.
This started again 2 days ago and whenever I play mine craft - it lets me play for a few minutes then the computer freezes and so I have to press the power button to restart the macbook pro. The Macbook Pro is fine when not playing Minecraft, but this did occur before installing Minecraft on the computer. I have tried playing Spore and that seemed fine as I was on it for about 10 minutes.
I don't understand why the vertical lines would start again upon installing mine craft then stop and then start again and then stop then start again.
Any ideas on the problem? (I know I could just stop playing Minecraft, but the problem is still there in the macbook)
Note: The picture with the pixelated squares has only occurred once which was today after restarting the macbook and pressing option-command-p-r. (I talked to an apple web chatter and he said try this).

Here are the pictures which I forgot to post with the question:

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