What games did you play in school?
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At school itself? Pokemon. And that was only because the teachers couldn't hope to confiscate every single gameboy from every single student.
Apart from that, zilch. Honestly I'm surprised that people were able to play games on computers at all at school.
Apart from that, zilch. Honestly I'm surprised that people were able to play games on computers at all at school.
Primary school (after class):
Karate-ka
Moon Patrol
Montezuma's Revenge
Castle Wolfenstein
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
Ghostbusters
And tons of others on the Apple 2e
High School:
Wolf 3D
Doom
Doom 2
UFO: Enemy Unknown
UFO Terror From the Deep
Warcraft
And tons of Amiga games at home.
Karate-ka
Moon Patrol
Montezuma's Revenge
Castle Wolfenstein
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
Ghostbusters
And tons of others on the Apple 2e
High School:
Wolf 3D
Doom
Doom 2
UFO: Enemy Unknown
UFO Terror From the Deep
Warcraft
And tons of Amiga games at home.
Pokemon on one end... Rayman in another... Kingdom Hearts later on... and Heli Attack 3 on the school computers...
Other than that, so many educational games like The Oregon Trail and Lemmings... I was the only kid to beat them to completion...
Other than that, so many educational games like The Oregon Trail and Lemmings... I was the only kid to beat them to completion...
On school computers:
Oregon Trail (Possibly a kids version)
Fun Brain
and some other random applications
Handheld games:
(Basically whatever we brought. Thanks to the DS having local wi-fi, only one person needed the game for multiplayer.)
Metroid
Mario Kart
Elite Beat Agents
Though the teacher would force us to stop us playing any game she deemed violent. She didn't look over our shoulders, but if she heard the word "Killed" or "Weapon", everyone in that group had to stop playing.
By the time middle school hit, I mostly lost interest in using free time for anything other than thinking, chatting, reading, or finishing homework (either early or due later that day).
Usually the last one.
Oregon Trail (Possibly a kids version)
Fun Brain
and some other random applications
Handheld games:
(Basically whatever we brought. Thanks to the DS having local wi-fi, only one person needed the game for multiplayer.)
Metroid
Mario Kart
Elite Beat Agents
Though the teacher would force us to stop us playing any game she deemed violent. She didn't look over our shoulders, but if she heard the word "Killed" or "Weapon", everyone in that group had to stop playing.
By the time middle school hit, I mostly lost interest in using free time for anything other than thinking, chatting, reading, or finishing homework (either early or due later that day).
Usually the last one.
There was Rise of the Triads, which we just called ROTT and didn't know what it actually stood for installed on some library computers. I never did play it but there were a group who did until it was discovered and deleted.
A browser game called Archmage was fairly prevalent. It was kinda a fantasy more complicated version of those facebook things? You had 100 turns a day and spent them building and attacking. There was no proper social friend/party system but there was a message board people used to form informal guilds which they had to personally keep track of. The game came in seasons and at the end, there was a hall of fame for people with the most territory. I had restricted internet access at home during weekdays so I'd log in at lunch time just to use my turns. This game is probably why I never got into the whole social facebook game nonsense, I already got it out of my system.
Cybercafe culture was a big gaming thing here back then, due to our internet being somewhat behind the rest of the world. Counterstrike is usually the FPS of choice. Though at the end of the year, we'd gather several classes or even years of people to come and we could set up proper huge Battlefield games which were awesome. Warcraft 3 custom maps were also popular. This was before DOTA really took hold so we'd play it's predecessors. 3 Corridors, Aeons of Strife and etc. When I was just with my immediate group of friends I'd try to get us to play Quake, Unreal or Jedi Outcast instead. Not being a fan of CS.
My elementary school IT class actually let us play SimCity 2000 which was nice.
A browser game called Archmage was fairly prevalent. It was kinda a fantasy more complicated version of those facebook things? You had 100 turns a day and spent them building and attacking. There was no proper social friend/party system but there was a message board people used to form informal guilds which they had to personally keep track of. The game came in seasons and at the end, there was a hall of fame for people with the most territory. I had restricted internet access at home during weekdays so I'd log in at lunch time just to use my turns. This game is probably why I never got into the whole social facebook game nonsense, I already got it out of my system.
Cybercafe culture was a big gaming thing here back then, due to our internet being somewhat behind the rest of the world. Counterstrike is usually the FPS of choice. Though at the end of the year, we'd gather several classes or even years of people to come and we could set up proper huge Battlefield games which were awesome. Warcraft 3 custom maps were also popular. This was before DOTA really took hold so we'd play it's predecessors. 3 Corridors, Aeons of Strife and etc. When I was just with my immediate group of friends I'd try to get us to play Quake, Unreal or Jedi Outcast instead. Not being a fan of CS.
My elementary school IT class actually let us play SimCity 2000 which was nice.
Well, at the time, the school computers had some pretty standard arcade titles install, for some reason. So, there'd be Pac-Man, Galaxian, Dig Dug... I'm very good at Dig Dug, by the way, better on a computer, for some reason. I guess the response time for this version was just better, because I'd rake in scores of 60,000 to 100,000. I also had access to Newgrounds, so there'd be some of that nonsense as well. Headphones were compulsory, of course.
Now, aside from that, there was any game I had on Gameboy. So, you'd be looking at Tetris, Super Mario Land, Wario Land, Wario Blast, Link's Awakening, and so on.
Now, aside from that, there was any game I had on Gameboy. So, you'd be looking at Tetris, Super Mario Land, Wario Land, Wario Blast, Link's Awakening, and so on.
OG Math Blaster and Number Munchers represent. Geez, my (US) elementary school had dot matrix printers. That is about as much as I can remember from about 2 decades ago. I do remember one kid brought his Game Gear on a few rainy days, and, yes, he was tethered to an outlet the whole time. (I may have brought my Sega Nomad once. Of course, I would have stood no chance of leaving the precious teat that is mains voltage.)
If it wasn't goofing off with semi-inapropriate websites, everyone in my high school computer classes eventually started bringing in floppies (this was right when floppies drives were dying out and right before flash drive prices got cheap) with games on them (or they found cheesy flash games online). I brought a USB gamepad occasionally. Most of the games were not of the "made for PC" variety. Some dudes were hardcore enough to go at Battletoads. I stuck with things that don't make you rip out your hair. Surprisingly, IT never found or never cared about us saving all of that stuff on our network folders, because they weren't deleted and we never heard anything of it.
I didn't really bring a handheld often. Usually with free time not spent on the next class's homework, I drew (free hand copying, mostly) Zelda or Final Fantasy art. I still got the Auron drawing I spent half a semester working on.
I used to often bring handhelds or a laptop to play on break at my old job. Unfortunately, people would come talk to me while Barons of Hell and Cyberdemons were exploding into piles of gore or I was at awkward scenes in one of the God of War PSP titles, so I started avoiding the high traffic areas.
If it wasn't goofing off with semi-inapropriate websites, everyone in my high school computer classes eventually started bringing in floppies (this was right when floppies drives were dying out and right before flash drive prices got cheap) with games on them (or they found cheesy flash games online). I brought a USB gamepad occasionally. Most of the games were not of the "made for PC" variety. Some dudes were hardcore enough to go at Battletoads. I stuck with things that don't make you rip out your hair. Surprisingly, IT never found or never cared about us saving all of that stuff on our network folders, because they weren't deleted and we never heard anything of it.
I didn't really bring a handheld often. Usually with free time not spent on the next class's homework, I drew (free hand copying, mostly) Zelda or Final Fantasy art. I still got the Auron drawing I spent half a semester working on.
I used to often bring handhelds or a laptop to play on break at my old job. Unfortunately, people would come talk to me while Barons of Hell and Cyberdemons were exploding into piles of gore or I was at awkward scenes in one of the God of War PSP titles, so I started avoiding the high traffic areas.
Ah yes, high school computer class, where in our case, some of us were much more tech savvy than the teachers so we'd do stuff like set up Quake LANs to play during breaks. They tried to stop us with stuff like putting passwords on the PCs, but those inevitably 'leaked' (one teacher was an avid gamer too and spilled the beans. Joined in on the fragging a couple of times too).Scarim Coral said:
Heh yeah. I remember a few times when it's home time and I'm waiting my ass off for him to show up (playing LAN with his mates). It got to the point he just told me to stop waiting for him and go home first (I was kinda too young to go to the computer lab before you asked me why I didn't played it then).Chimpzy said:
Pokemon, this game called Bounce on my Nokia phone, and when smartphones came around various other games, most memorably Battleship Craft.
I was never allowed to bring my handhelds to school for fear that they might get lost, broken, or stolen.
I do remember there being a Sega Genesis at after school care a couple times in grade 3 or 4 and playing one of the Sonic games on it, I don't remember which one though. I think in grade 2 there was Commander Keen or something on the old Apple II we had in the classroom. In middle school I became aware of flash games and we played Boxhead, Bubble Buddy, Madness Interactive, Lemonade Tycoon, Burger Tycoon, Hapland, and Heli Attack 2 while we were supposed to be working on projects or writing papers.
Edit: Also in high school, I remember playing a lot of the crappy breakout, solitaire, and Helicopter game that came pre-installed on my ipod video.
I do remember there being a Sega Genesis at after school care a couple times in grade 3 or 4 and playing one of the Sonic games on it, I don't remember which one though. I think in grade 2 there was Commander Keen or something on the old Apple II we had in the classroom. In middle school I became aware of flash games and we played Boxhead, Bubble Buddy, Madness Interactive, Lemonade Tycoon, Burger Tycoon, Hapland, and Heli Attack 2 while we were supposed to be working on projects or writing papers.
Edit: Also in high school, I remember playing a lot of the crappy breakout, solitaire, and Helicopter game that came pre-installed on my ipod video.
On the playground with friends, Beast Wars, Star Wars (Super lame) and Mortal Kombat. And there was always that one asshole who joined in and would actually hit you.
What?It was the 90's, you couldn't do shit on computers in school other than type, and it took a long time for me to want to be bothered with a computer.
There was nothing to do inside in school then. You couldn't bring toys/gameboys to class, that was a giant no no back then. So yeah, outside was as good as it got.
Of course though this is only from the age of 6 to about 10? Then all you did outside was walk around and shoot the shit; Or play grounders and soccer.
EDIT: Oh wait, no I remember I did play an actual video game in school. It was highschool, the last day of grade 12 and a few of my friends set up a TV and guitar hero in the hallway. Was a pretty good time.
What?It was the 90's, you couldn't do shit on computers in school other than type, and it took a long time for me to want to be bothered with a computer.
There was nothing to do inside in school then. You couldn't bring toys/gameboys to class, that was a giant no no back then. So yeah, outside was as good as it got.
Of course though this is only from the age of 6 to about 10? Then all you did outside was walk around and shoot the shit; Or play grounders and soccer.
EDIT: Oh wait, no I remember I did play an actual video game in school. It was highschool, the last day of grade 12 and a few of my friends set up a TV and guitar hero in the hallway. Was a pretty good time.
In school I was playing small games 'cause in that time there were not such possibilities to enjoy the 3d graphics. And recently I have found a few of them on http://www.friv4online.com/ . It brings so many childhood memories when we gathered with friends to play.