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Old-school computer games at your old school

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That is, if you ever had them.

Here is the place to talk about the old games, toys, or other things that you had on your school's old computers. List your favourites, discuss the merits of dying of frostbite over dysentery, whatever it is.



At my old school, Gateway Public School, we only ever used the Macs. I remember that I got special privileges for using the computers (even getting to use the Windows ones once in a while) because I knew more about how to use them than any of the other students and even some of the teachers (and now that I look back at it, I'm embarrassed that I got such special treatment).

Back in those days, I didn't even know about the Mac games like Oregon Trail. We had games like Nanosaur and one unnamed one where you had to get an astronaut back to his base before you ran out of oxygen.

There was also a game where you drove a truck around Canada trying to deliver goods. But I have no idea what that was called anymore.
 
I still remember at one of my old schools, they had a game called bugdom installed. All the kids hopped on the old iMacs and played it. It was some platforming game where you moved a bug around.

I also remember some bill nye game. It looked cool (since it is bill nye, duh) but the crappy PowerMac 5260s had issues with it.

And back in 2007, we played club penguin on the macs all the time.
 
I don't really recall playing much in the way of camputer games at school back in the day. My elementary school had a mix of early Macs, some Commodores and these bloody annoying things. I might've played a few games on them, but I can't remember the names of them now. They were pretty generic, as I recall. I used a computer much more at home than we ever did in school, in those days.
 
Oregon Trail, yeah, but also Yukon Trail and Museum Madness were big ones for me. Moving up through the grades, I eventually encountered Bugdom and Star Wars Droid Works as well.
 
I installed Warcraft 3 on one the comps. :)

Only manged to play it a couple of times. Its still there I think.
 
We had Super Mario Teaches Typing at my school when I was kid.

I had no aim on learning to type though. I wanted to get a higher score than the other kids, and this has left its mark on me. It was my first encounter of a computer keyboard so I didn't even know the basics. From playing the game though I quickly found out that it was much easier to kill the Koopa Troopas by bashing the key's with one finger quickly before they hit Mario, instead of press various keys with multiple fingers. This habit stuck! To the day, I still usually type with one finger on my left hand... Super Mario certainly didn't teach me Typing, well at least the way it's suposed to be done. :p
 
I had a Lion King typing game on our computers. In Grade 1 or 2, I used to play the hardest mode available, and I could make Pumbaa hit every single bug.

Granted, it was only the home row, but it was the first step for me to learn typing.
 
In my Elementary School with its awesome Mac OS8 machines (I don't think they were even iMacs, not sure what they were) we had the legendary Oregon Trail, as well as some game called Number Munchers, I don't think anyone actually liked it, but it had a high score table, so we would vie to be able to put the best... unpleasantries as our name.
 
Oh hey, I remember that game!

Except I never played it...

For that matter, I also had educational games at home like Math Blaster. That was a very fun game, except I never really knew how to navigate the levels.

Nope, we had that one at school as well. Except I remember that the one I had at home had better graphics.
 
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Word Munchers, Number Munchers, The Magic School Bus...

I loved those games.
 
YamiGekusu said:
Word Munchers, Number Munchers, The Magic School Bus...

I loved those games.
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There was a game for that?!? I just loved the shows.

Soon-kun said:
Cross Country Canada? That was always my favourite.
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Yes! That one! That's what it was. Oh man, it was fun as hell. Not that Hell is fun, but I didn't capitalize it.

Now that I know what to look up, apparently Apple created another version for Mac OS X. And the graphics look much worse than in the original.
 
Back in Ye-old 2nd grade days, we had the macs that ran only Oregon Trail and a boring as hell math game.

In 4th grade, we got iMacs that came with Bugdom, Nanosaur, MDK, and Cro Magnon Racing.

In high school, someone decided to put a pirated copy of Warcraft 3 on our computers (private school btw). The unfortunate part was we didn't have a LAN line long enough to cross the classroom to play 2 player.
 
Vraell said:
In high school, someone decided to put a pirated copy of Warcraft 3 on our computers (private school btw). The unfortunate part was we didn't have a LAN line long enough to cross the classroom to play 2 player.
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All the computers in our school's two labs have Warcraft III, courtesy of a few hackers :-D

And we have LAN lines, too. The students there constantly play on the network. I'm talking pretty much every day at lunch.
 
Back in elementary school we had Number Munchers and Word Munchers. In middle school we had Oregon Trail and Storybook Weaver. I still remember that the kid that sat next to me in one of my classes always used to play Oregon Trail and name all of his party members after characters from a Link to the Past. In high school, that was the first time the school computers actually had Windows 9x on them (98 to be specific, which was brand new at the time). The games were disabled but everyone knew about the Word '97 pinball Easter egg.:p
 
That game where you drive a truck across canada that game kicked major ass.

and some shitty math game no one played and some typing game with space ships.
 
My friend was able to download Halo Combat evolve onto the school computors. It was on their for years. It was fun.
 
We had Oregon Trail on the Macs in my keyboarding class in middle school and I remember in high school about 5 of us had Tribes installed in our Multimedia class and would play it after we were done with our work for the day.
 
Well someone downloaded Super Mario Bros X on one school computer and thats pretty fun to play
 
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That game where you drive a truck across canada that game kicked major ass.
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Fuck yeah Crosscountry Canada. The best part was when you got bored and tried to kill yourself. But even if you were speeding down the highway at 120MPH in the winter without a seatbelt and not having eaten or slept in 3 days, you still wouldn't go through the windshield and die horribly.

Dinopark Tycoon was another fun one. Especially when you exploited the bug to effectively embezzle thousands of dollars. There was also a cool thank game called Spectre on there. The Yukon Trail too. And there was another neat game called Odell Down Under, where you played as a fish, going around eating stuff, getting cleaned, etc. with several levels. Notably, I remember if you went into the edit mode and made yourself a medium sized fish then balanced all your stats, not even Great White would bother you.

Also, I was very fortunate, as my elementary school had motherfucking Descent on it. Getting random crashes when attempting to save was actually the inspiration for my username. I was the only guy who made it past Level 5, even though it took me like weeks to beat the asshole on Level 7 on the lowest difficulty (this was v1.0 of the game we were talking about, where he's stupidly hard). Conversely, I was able to beat him the second time around on the second lowest without a hitch.

In middle school, Bolo was the main game of choice. It was suprisingly awesome - and holy shit I just found out it was only made in 1987. I believe there was also a demo of Starcraft on there. There was also a game called Reckless Drivin', with ten levels of speeding through a straight track dodging police and shit. It doesn't even seem to be on GameFAQs, but it was really cool (especially with the cheat to play as anything in the game, usually the boat - yes on land - for its speed). I don't remember much else about the games there.

High School, with its kickass Windows systems, people played a lot of stuff due to more lenient rules, especially flash games, but Liero was the main pre-installed game of choice. My favorite thing to do was play with Modern Weapons, set the reload rate to zero, then choose the Spikeballs. You'd fucking fly around the stage while launching hundreds of them per minute. Though I heard they kind of gayed it up with later versions of that pack (even with no reload time there was still reload time). The pack with the Lascannon was also fun - I remember taking on two guys at once using just that weapon. There was a similar game played as well. People also liked to bring their own games, usually Half-Life.

Also, in the tech shop at lunch, we sometimes played emulators or occasionally game consoles we brought (usually Halo 2 or something, but a couple times SSBM). Two memories from that include a race through Sonic 2 (which I was winning up until when I fell at the rising goo in Chemical Plant), and all the SNES MMX games being played by three people (I was playing X2).
 
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