Gizmos and Gadgets and KidPix were the only "Games" on my public school computers.
But we all definitely had floppy disks with ZSNES
But we all definitely had floppy disks with ZSNES
Games your school computers inexplicably had
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I dunno how but someone snuck in an NES emulator with a bunch of games on one of the schools computer directories. You can access it from every computer on school too. I remember finishing Castlevania in class when I was supposed to be learning Excel.
Had to be Podd on the BBC Micro! You knew it was a good day when that got wheeled in to the classroom!
When I was around 14/15 someone put the whole of GTA 3 on the computer system.. that was a good couple days! Other than that back in primary school we had some old as hell computers with floppy discs the size of records, was all BBC text adventures based on educational shows we watched. I remember something about finding some eagles eggs or something?
We had Acorn Archimedes and Acorn RISC PCs at high school, had to wait until sixth form college to get to play QBasic Gorillas at lunchtime.In primary school it was Granny's Garden on the BBC as people have already said
In high school though it was this on Windows 95
It was "Gorillas", one of the demo programs that came with Microsoft's QBasic. Microsoft's first party output at its best.
Yes! Came to post this, but couldn't remember the name. Lol. My and my friends would play it the entire period.In primary school it was Granny's Garden on the BBC as people have already said
In high school though it was this on Windows 95
Yeah, I think the MacBooks my primary school got via a government grant came with Bugdom 2? Or at least some weird AF ant game.I'm a little younger, so for me it was all about Bugdom.
Zambia in the mid 2000s(primary school) and all the school computers had some game called Dave(Danger Dave?) And a bootleg Super Mario Bros. The coveted PC in the lab had GTA3. My secondary school had no games on any of the computers.
In the HS PC lab we had a lot of shitty old PCs so they really couldn't run much.
But I found out that some upperclassmen were the kind ones who installed:
Sim City
Out of this World
Doom
And some others I can't quite recall.
But I found out that some upperclassmen were the kind ones who installed:
Sim City
Out of this World
Doom
And some others I can't quite recall.
There were no "inexclicable" games, because they were all installed by a buddy of mine.
I've played at least Stunts, Indianapolis 500 and Doom on school computers. Doom on school computers was my first LAN multiplayer experience.
I also remember Police Quest 3, Willy Beamish and Street Rod from school.
I've played at least Stunts, Indianapolis 500 and Doom on school computers. Doom on school computers was my first LAN multiplayer experience.
I also remember Police Quest 3, Willy Beamish and Street Rod from school.
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Gizmos and mother fuckin gadgets
In elementary school I only remember number munchers and Oregon Trail.
In High School we played Starcraft on LAN.
In High School we played Starcraft on LAN.
Super Street Fighter 2. Don't remember if it was turbo or not but yeah, we had that in our PC room. The only other games we had were touch typing programs and edutainment stuff. Sadly none of us had much use for it cause it was on keyboard and could not really play it much other than button mash and the occasional fireball. We were arcade brats and would go down to the local arcade almost everyday yet we had access to SSF2 and didn't do much with it due to the controls.
Dangerous Dave 2
Even though I'm not from Zambia, are we related!?
I think we had Chuckie Egg and some text adventures on the BBC Micros in primary school.
And then in secondary school we had Paint Delux and Lemmings on the Amiga in art class. They had ONE betwen the whole department!
And then in secondary school we had Paint Delux and Lemmings on the Amiga in art class. They had ONE betwen the whole department!
This thread is going to make me tear up from nostalgia. It was a little bit later, but Kid Pix was super popular and some might consider it a game. Oh no!
Also, did anyone convince their parents to get them any games through the Scholastic magazine? That's how I got the first Rayman. :D
Also, did anyone convince their parents to get them any games through the Scholastic magazine? That's how I got the first Rayman. :D
We had this game where you controlled a turret and shot down paratroopers from the ground like Missile Command. If too many landed safely, they stacked up by your turret and if 3 landers got to you, it was game over
Anyone know what that one was called?
Anyone know what that one was called?
We also had The Incredible Machine installed on our school PCs
Shoutout to TIM. Loved that game.
We had all the old sim games like Simant and and Sim City.
It was pretty sweet because my home room in junior high was the computer room so we just all played games while the other classes had to waste time by doing their homework
It was pretty sweet because my home room in junior high was the computer room so we just all played games while the other classes had to waste time by doing their homework
In high school we only had four 386 computers for like 30 something students. But the professor had his own 486, with colour monitor and if a group did good on the tasks given he would let us play Commander Keen. But one day he blew us all out of the water when he showed us the intro for Out of This World. I had never seen something so realistic.
Dread Dragon Droom & Geordie Racer on the BBC Micro.
I think there was a game for each of the look & read programs such as Geordie Racer.
We only had BBC Micros and Acorns, no PCs!
GEORDIE RACER!
Dread Dragon Droom! Oh, the nostalgia!
After Dark Games.
So bad, but at the same time, so good. Still no idea why they installed this on every machine.
It actually was one of several hidden basic programs that was included with Windows. IIRC, they were even in Windows 3.1 and possibly DOS. It was so long ago when I first found them that I don't exactly remember, lol.
EDIT: Yeah, it did first appear in MS-DOS 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
Also I ran a nice little racket where I sold floppies of a mixture of pirated and shareware versions of games for use on the school's Acorns, but that doesn't belong in this thread because all those games' origin is evidently explicable.
I was young and foolish and also swimming in lunch money.
I was young and foolish and also swimming in lunch money.
What was the game where you climb up a mountain catching elves who ask you math questions and you get random prizes each loop you do? Treasure Mountain?
In high school I was the kid in study hall who had portable versions of popular games. Line Rider, WoW, SC, etc.
In high school I was the kid in study hall who had portable versions of popular games. Line Rider, WoW, SC, etc.
Commodore Pet: Horse Racing (not sure of the actual name)
In Commercial Art we had a survival game on our Macs. Can't recall the name though, but it was pretty fun. Sorry I can't find a photo. The game was in black and white.
In the 7th grade, my spanish teacher also owned a PC Games shop just down the road, where they sold all sorts of new and used PC games. She'd frequently bring stock from her store into the classroom as she worked two jobs basically, and one day when we had some downtime, me and some friends noticed Alone in the Dark 2 in her classroom. I knew about AitD and so we asked her if we could play some of her games on her mac in the classroom. She said yes and I guess didn't think about it. We went to install the game, but to do so you needed to input the admin password to allow the computer to install stuff. Thankfully, my teacher used to hunt and peck her password with her index finger right in front of us, so I had long figured out the password. We installed and played the game, which has a sorta gorey introduction.
Well, the next day, when we arrived at school, the principal was waiting for us and called us into the office. Seems we had installed Alone in the Dark on the network, and it installed on every computer in the school. The teacher said we "hacked" the system and they were threatening us with all sorts of detention and shit. At one point the principal told me he was going to call my dad and I told him to go ahead. My dad was a nerd, and my principal handed me the phone to explain the trouble I was in. I explained everything exactly as I have in this topic, and my dad asked me to hand the phone back to the principal where he laid into him about his school's shitty security system, and how in many circles what I had done would have been praised for raising awareness of vulnerabilities, and how if I got even a day of detention he was going to go to the superintendent and raise hell about how the teacher had gory games in her classroom.
I got off scott free, haha.
Well, the next day, when we arrived at school, the principal was waiting for us and called us into the office. Seems we had installed Alone in the Dark on the network, and it installed on every computer in the school. The teacher said we "hacked" the system and they were threatening us with all sorts of detention and shit. At one point the principal told me he was going to call my dad and I told him to go ahead. My dad was a nerd, and my principal handed me the phone to explain the trouble I was in. I explained everything exactly as I have in this topic, and my dad asked me to hand the phone back to the principal where he laid into him about his school's shitty security system, and how in many circles what I had done would have been praised for raising awareness of vulnerabilities, and how if I got even a day of detention he was going to go to the superintendent and raise hell about how the teacher had gory games in her classroom.
I got off scott free, haha.
In primary school the Acorn computer in class had a really basic 3d flight sim. No idea what it was called but you controlled a bi-plane.
In high school the Acorns in German class had Lemmings and the PCs in the library had Battle Chess.
I never installed anything myself but I used to take my PS1 in and hook it up to the common room TV for lunchtime FIFA and Street Fighter Alpha 3 tournaments. Good times =D
In high school the Acorns in German class had Lemmings and the PCs in the library had Battle Chess.
I never installed anything myself but I used to take my PS1 in and hook it up to the common room TV for lunchtime FIFA and Street Fighter Alpha 3 tournaments. Good times =D
