Games your school computers inexplicably had

[MegaRockEXE]

When I was in third grade, we got to try out the computer lab for the first time. I think it was also the last year we had these old Apple II computers in the lab. I want to know what these lame games it had were. I remember there was a rock-paper-scissors game where you always lose and a building light bulb pizzle game that made no sense. I don't remember anything else from the class besides that.

 

[actthafool]

Probably air supremacy

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Just had a quick google, that's definitely it. Cheers

 

[SliceSabre]

Grand Theft Auto
Tank Wars

God during our ungodly amounts of free time we would just hoard those computers and play those for countless amounts of time.

 

[Rapscallion]

My school had a mix of older and newer computers. Of the games I remember:

-Treasure Math Storm
-Sticky Bear
-Nanosaur (was on the one ultra new I-Mac!)
-The Electric Chalkboard (?)

 

[Grettir_the_Swole]

Some sneaky employee installed Nanosaur on my elementary school's '98 iMac's. I also had a teacher who would give us our workload in advance for the week then, and if we finished early we could work on a giant paper mache t-rex or play on her PC which had Lemmings, Battlezone, and Doom. (I was in her classes from the 2nd to the 5th grade, so I'm not sure how she pulled that one off.)

 

[Laserbeam]

I remember someone, somehow had installed Quake 2 and it was possible to play from any of the computers in the two labs and there was ALWAYS a multiplayer match going.

I don't know how long that lasted, but I wasted my fair share of class playing.

 

[KentP]

I remember we had Chuckie Egg on the BBC Micro we had in middle school

I think we also had 'Predator', though its possible someone brought that in from home

 

[Bazry]

DUDE this screenshot gives me major flashbacks, sounds and everything

The only game I can remember in primary school in the UK was this weird game that just taught basic UI interaction (layout of keys on a keyboard, clicking, double clicking etc).

I can't find a screenshot or name anywhere so heres a mock up. The only thing I remember was this weird green table character in a grey maze lol I feel like there were arrows for movement were on the screen somewhere, maybe near the bottom or at the edges.

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Looks like Number Munchers but don't remember the maze bit

 

[Deleted member 42]

My school bought DDR and 2 of the 300$ metal pads for fitness

 

[Accoun]

There was more but these two were most played
Liero
Deluxe ski jump

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Yup. Liero, DSJ and the aforementioned MARIO.EXE were like, the holy trifecta of games that ran on everything in the computer room. We also had Jazz Jackrabbit 2, which we were even allowed to play via LAN once a year.

 

[Joe Spangle]

Any kid in the UK that was at primary school in the 80s will remember the BBC Micro all-time classic.. Granny's Garden.

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That was it! I knew it was something to do with granny's.

 

[Sectorseven]

Kings Quest, and I played the hell out of it.

It was like a diamond in the rough among Number Munchers.

 

[red731]

As a Czech man then boy, we had and it was all about Moorhuhn and Bulánci

 

[pswii60]

That was it! I knew it was something to do with granny's.

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Here you go:


I like how the graphics completely stop after you enter the house. Like the creator just thought "fuck it" at that point and turned it in to a text adventure.

 

[Deleted member 34239]

Cro-Mag Rally, best kart racer of all time.

 

[Guppeth]

Like the other UK kids I remember Granny's Garden on the BBC model B, especially this bit:

I also remember Oregon Trail on the BBC, Zarch on the Archimedes, and one science teacher had the golf game Links on their PC. I was blown away by Links' graphics compared to PGA Tour Golf on my Amiga.

But most of all I remember Spheres of Chaos, a trippy Asteroids clone on the Archimedes that may explain why I love Geometry Wars so much. The leaderboard had 100 spaces and we didn't get to play often, so everyone had a good chance of recording their high score. I think I was in the top 5 when I left school.

 

[The Angry Internet]

We had a lot of the standard edutainment games—Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail, Number Crunchers, Math Blaster, Mario Teaches Typing—but there was nothing "inexplicable" about those since they were at at least nominally educational (though there wasn't much to take away from Oregon Trail other than "boy, long-distance travel sure was brutal before trains came along"). The purely entertainment titles that had less business being on school computers were Shufflepuck Café, Glider, and (yes!) Dark Castle.

 

[DennyDifferent]

It wasn't a game as such but I remember there was an application for Acorn where you could design scenes by dragging and dropping characters and objects onto a pre-made background. I seem to remember there was a swimming pool background that you could add diving boards to and stuff. My Google-fu is bringing up nothing.

 

[Aters]

Tomb Raider. Has no idea how it ends up on our school computer, surprised it could run well.

 

[Heid]

Looks like Number Munchers but don't remember the maze bit

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Wow yeah the character looks bizarrely similar but no, the 'gameplay' just consisted of a first person maze with this random green dude who popped up and gave you puzzles or something.

 

[shaneo632]

Same...near Birmingham area by any chance :p

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Haha nowhere near sadly!

 

[Deleted member 1086]

Aside from the usual Oregon Trail/NumberMunchers/Math Blaster type games that every school had when I was a kid, I loved playing Missile Command on school computers. Never knew why they had it, but they did. Also the old Microsoft Entertainment Pack games, Ski Free and Jezzball and Chip's Challenge and Rodent's Revenge, stuff like that.

Also we had some bizarre early internet games that the object was to kill Mickey Mouse or Barney the Dinosaur.

 

[Deleted member 71]

Pirated Counter-Strike 1.6 and the Halo demo on Blood Gulch lol

 

[goku01899]

In elementary school Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and SimCity. After that in high school someone put an N64 and SNES emulator with all the ROMS on the school district's network drive. In computer class we were able to play everything from MK3, Majora's Mask, to Tenchi Muyo RPG. It took them about a year before they finally took them down.

 

[Joe Spangle]

Here you go:


I like how the graphics completely stop after you enter the house. Like the creator just thought "fuck it" at that point and turned it in to a text adventure.

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That was a blast from the past, Cheers.

 

[HyGogg]

My schools had Apple IIs well into the 90s, so the games at my school were primitive. The one I remember enjoying the most was a parser-based graphic adventure called Transylvania.

 

[HyGogg]

Zarch:



I suspect that one of the teachers wanted to play this rather than the school putting it on!

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I haven't thought about this game in years. I remember liking it a lot though.

 

[HyGogg]

holy shit i haven't thought about or seen this game for at least a decade and a half

what even is it called?

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Gorillas. It was a sample game for QBasic that came with DOS 5 and later, along with Nilbbles. Nibbles was a riff on Nibbler and the archetype of the "snake" game popularized by old Nokia phones, while Gorrillas was essentially a reskinned Artillery Duel featuring giant apes throwing exploding bananas.

 

[mute]

Not counting Apple II stuff and Carmen Sandiego, etc. that the school had bought intentionally, I remember in 6th grade the computers had a pretty good version of Joust loaded, in High School the labs had OG Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein 3D, also the drafting class PCs had UT 99' on it for some reason.

 

[RivalGT]

Halo CE was very common to find on a PC, and many played it in lan.

 

[Calm Killer]

Half-Life Death Match. I installed it on everything in our science room. We enjoyed Study Hall greatly.

MS-DOS Battle Chess.

 

[RM8]

The original Prince of Persia (1989).

In... 2001. That was my introduction to the series, actually!

 

[Zoid]

Halo CE, there'd always be a ton of kids around the school playing across the LAN.

 

[thebagel1]

I'm a little younger, so for me it was all about Bugdom.

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Came to say this

 

[mokostroika2]

back in '99, i would bring floppies to school and download games from abandonware websites, so a lot of those i installed to see how they were - the old xcoms, heretic/hexen, wolf3d, strife, stunts 4d driving [and 4d boxing!], commander keens and old rpg's [eye of beholderr, ultima underworlds, etc] so on and so on.

the school library had a bunch of computers so i would always use a different one - and i had a folder on the desktop with them - if anyone was curios enough to open and try to run them, then they would play a bunch of random titles. lol

one teacher was all in awe that you could get free games and i remember he wrote down the websites. i still remember the "it came from abandonware" icon thing on these websites [web ring button?]

 

[tommyv2]

Basically only ever had Midnight Rescue growing up.

 

[Jacknapes]

Someone installed Quake on a few computers in school. And again in college.

 

[AaronMT]

I remember my elementary school library computers also having Kid Pix which was like an easier and fancier drawing program then what was included in DOS or Windows 3.1 at the time.

Also, that somehow reminded me that we inevitably had Where in the World is Carmen San Diego

 

[TransEuropaExpress]

Doom and Wolfenstein of course!

I feel like every 90's school computer secretly had these installed.

 

[SchrodingerC]

I'm a little younger, so for me it was all about Bugdom.

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Bugdom was my obsession as a kid. I think it was also bundled with a dinosaur game.

 

[CheeseConey]

Age of Empires 2

 

[CaptNink]

Had this wretch of a game for some reason:

Dark Castle

 

[deadman322]

UT99. we even had a lan tournament on year.

my team won of course.

 

[dmr87]

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

EDIT: called Gorillas

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Beat me to it.

 

[Rosebud]

Chicken Invaders

 

[djplaeskool]

Also, that somehow reminded me that we inevitably had Where in the World is Carmen San Diego

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I've only had limited access to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego back in the day.
I played way more Where In Time and Where In America's Past.

 

[Charizard]

We had a bunch of shitty edutainment games I can't remember in Elementary School.

In high school one of my 9th grade teachers put Unreal Tournament on all of the room's computers and the last month-something was just us playing Unreal Tournament all day (the class's "final" was already done by that point because it was part of a program that had the "big test" in early May). And yes, the teacher fucking DESTROYED us all. ;w;

 

[IronicSonic]

I remember a weird DOS Mario with two levels (1-1 sort of and a Castle). A wired frame racing game . It was early 90s. A lot of typing game stuff aswell!1

 

[crienne]

I'm honestly sort of amazed at the few (if any?) mentions I've seen of the (mostly MECC) classics of my youth like:

• Odell Lake
• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
• DinoPark Tycoon
• Number Munchers
• Oregon Trail (the original)
• and so on

EDIT found some more MECC classics:

• Miner's Cave
• Pizza To Go
• Paper Plane Pilot

 

[Deleted member 17210]

Not counting games stuff brought from home, there was Kickman in the early '80s.


Bringing pixely pictures of naked women to put on classroom Commodore 64s was a good time. It became a game of turning the monitors on and off while the teacher wasn't looking.