/vr/ - Retro Games

>1997
>elementary school

You kids and your VGA color graphics...

>>1121515
hah i was born in '91, so, yeah. my 2nd grade years of Math Blaster and Oregon Trail '97/'98

Nanosaur.

Zoombinis. Everything else can scram.

Did elementary kids in 1997 type papers on computers?
We started to work with computers in school during the sixth grade but I don't remember ever playing games during that period.

>>1121541
I learned how to type papers in the second grade the following year. So, it's pretty likely.

>>1121541
actually, we didn't type papers, but they'd have us type up stories and make pictures of them with this game, which was actually quite fun on its own

At that time we still only had c64s at school...

battlezone on the older power-mac in the corner, everyone else wanted their bugville and dinosaur imac game and zoombinis, meanwhile I'm sitting all alone maximizing my tank's armor, good times.

This was around 1999 or 2000, I was in the 3rd grade, shit was so cash

>>1121495
>1997
More like 1987 for me. Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe was pretty much our only choice. That and using my wizard ears to find which monitors in the computer lab had been left on. There was only one other kid in the class who could hear the monitors' high-pitched shrieking.

in 1997 I was a junior in college.

>>1121720
>shit was so cash
kill yourself

School Bus Driver

also:
number munchers
dick tracy
math blaster (best by far)

>>1121495
Maaan, I played this game. I used to get so absorbed in it too.

>tfw born in '95 and will never discover the internet for the first time

>>1121780
>tfw I just realized kids born in 1995 turn 18 this year
fuck I'm old

>>1121787
how old are you?

>>1121804
24, I realize I'm not THAT old, but every passing year there's more things that make me realize that I'm marching on toward the grave

>>1121812
shits creeping up on us all dude

anythang you regret not doing?

>>1121812
i'm 33. I'd kill to be 24 again.

>>1121831
are you a wizard?

>>1121828
>anythang you regret not doing?
more women, and that internship in college

>>1121495

secure tripcodes are for jerks

>/vr/ is this young
I was in elementary school when PONG came out. Beat that, kids.

>Elementary school
It's 1989, and my elementary school actually had this.
Loved it.

>>1121861
no. thank god. pretty close though

Gonna hang with my nigga and get all da eggs on a teal iMac.

>97
>elementary school
Shit, I was already in high school at that time. I couldn't tell. I was born in '87.

>>1121920
pop pop

>>1121923

... you were in high school at age 10?

I was born in '79. I guess that makes me a fossil. There was like one computer at our school and you had to be in the special program for kids who were falling behind to use it. I was only falling behind because I hated the school. I got to play Math Blaster. But it didn't make me like math. But it was the first time I got to use a computer.

Not really a game, but it was all I had at school, and was a blast to have. KID PIX!

Oregon...Fucking....Trail

>>1121979
That's not oregon trail. This is oregon trail.

>>1121943
did he say 1987?

>>1121990
...But I was playing number munchers anyway.

>>1121943
It's not unheard of for exceptional students to be grade skipped from time to time.

Fucking Math Blaster.

Because the cutscenes at our school only worked once no matter what you did. So you BETTER be the first person to play that fucking game.

I also seem to remember pic related hanging around our school's after-hours club.

>>1122001
You skipped four years?

>>1122012
I've heard of that happening once in a while.

>>1121997
Remember the Velociraptors that sounded like Cougars?

>>1121997
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_sy62iQJRc

I think the choice is fairly obvious.

>>1121764
YES! I've been trying to remember the name of this game for years!

In '97 my school's lower grades didn't have too much new equipment. I think I played Oregon Trail on the Apple II in second or third grade.

In 6th grade I think I had moved up to a Macintosh, I don't remember having any games for that thing. I do recall my school getting Alphasmarts around that time as well.

Hmm.... 1997.... that would have made me a fourth-grader.

Oregon Trail and Number Crunchers here I come.

>>1121495
Alright... I'm in 5th grade. So... SimCity 2000, on an old mac.

>>1122016
It's just not likely. Some schools are split differently too. Most people I know were in jr high at 6th grade, and we didn't get there til 7th. Maybe his went into jr high at 5th and he's being a dipshit about it.

I know the dolls freaked you out as a kid. Admit it.

>>1122595
Dr. Quandry was the shit.

>"You're not allowed to play games."
>"But I finished my--"
>"It's a distraction to others."
>"Yes Mr. Jaeger..."

>>1122595
Some of those puzzles were really hard. I downloaded that a while back to experience some nostalgia and even my adult skills had trouble with that fire/acid room.

>It's 1997
>You're in elementary school
Uhhhhhh... ok I'll just pick one.

>>1122595

Fuck yes. I love that game.

>>1122642
Same, but I think I ragequit at how specific the tangram boundries had to be filled in

AWWWW YEAH!

>>1121495
In my the school there was only Hercules

>>1121993
holy shit. this looks WAY too familiar. like... i KNOW i played this... i just don't remember where... but I remember the animation of him eating the numbers... FUCK....

>>1121505
... Holy shit.

Hell yes. Time for Dr. Brain.

>>1122790

>novice level

do you even

>mfw absolutely nothing to play because all my school had were shitty computers from the mid-80s with NOGAMES

It was only until after I moved on to middle school in '99 that my elementary school got modern-ish computers (Windows 95). It's like they were waiting for me to leave so they could have fun.

>>1121730
SO COULD I. And TVs. And when I ask someone if they hear a screen on, they act like I'm nuts.

>>1121495

My computer day in elementary school.

I remember playing stuff like Busytown, Carmen Sandiego, some interactive CD about the bottom of the sea and one of those weird McZee games.

My favorite was definitely Mario teaches typing, but it wasn't quite as fun as The Typing of the Dead. I was a terrible typist at the time, to boot.

I remember playing stuff like Busytown, Carmen Sandiego, some interactive CD about the bottom of the sea and one of those weird McZee games.

My favorite was definitely Mario teaches typing, but it wasn't quite as fun as The Typing of the Dead. I was a terrible typist at the time, to boot.

>>1121732
get off the boards, grandpa

>>1122808
Deep escape! Do it now!

A year later and we'd be emulating Pokemon on the school computers. Oh how times have changed.

>>1122823
OH SHIT

MARIO

TEACHES

TYPING

That game was fucking amazing for typing practice.

Pic fucking related.

1997 - High School
Playing that copy of Duke3D someone managed to sneak onto the Computer Lab LAN during class downtime. Teacher doesn't care as long as we pay attention when it's time for her to teach.

>>1121920
That lustful look and that rump.

>ctrl+F
>no bumpy

cmon now, I am playin bumpy and lovin it

You're all small time.

Or worse.

American.

>>1121764
Good game. Great white for great justice

>>1121968
WHOOPS. OH NO

I was born in 90 but grew up playing apple IIe's at school. My favorite games were spellevator, rocket factory, and this dog sledding adventure game that was like oregon trail but it was set in alaska. I bought an apple 2 from the school for 10 bucks a few years later but ruined it like a dumbass in my teenage years

>1997
>Elementary school

I was in junior high by then.

>>1122974
dude a trucker game!!! could you do stupid shit like roll the truck? Any games that you could screw around in I loved as a kid

>>1121495
played the shit out of the demo

>>1121730
>>1122806
What the fuck, there are people that don't hear that?

>>1123153

People with hearing loss or limited hearing can't hear the high frequencies that CRTs emit.

>>1121730
>>1122806
>>1123153
>>1123168
I had a hell of a time convincing other people that I wasn't pulling some sort of trick whenever I could tell when those fuckers were on. Those shitty old green monitors screamed SO FUCKING LOUD when they were on without the computer itself being on. I could hear them all the way down the hall. They were so loud that I'd start sweating and feeling queasy when I was anywhere near them. They were like a sonic weapon targeting only me. I used to excuse myself to the "bathroom" when I was in a class nearby, then I'd go and turn off all of the monitors in the library. Even when people finally believed me, they just didn't give a fuck about turning them off. I've only ever met a handful of people with the same experience as me.

>>1123027
My cousin and I would play nascar on the ps1 and purposely drive the wrong way on the tracks and try to hit the other cars. Shit was epic.

>>1123105
>GTA
What school did YOU go to?

>>1123212
Are you autistic?

And I don't mean that in a "lel autism way" I'm legitimately curious, because I've heard autistic people are often irritated by the high-pitched whine of electronics.

AFAIK that sound is actually made by a capacitor.

>>1122974
Holy balls, I remember this.

>>1123249
Honestly, I'm not autistic in any way. A very small percentage of people (usually younger or with certain disorders) can hear very high frequencies. Into my 20s, I could hear frequencies well above 25,000 Hz. That includes the lower range of many dog whistles. As I got older, some of my range deteriorated, but I can still hear higher pitches than my much younger siblings.

this shit sucked but i loved it

When I left high school, I put up a dozen games on Dropbox and sent every underclassman the link.

According to my neighbor, it still hasn't been cleaned out yet.

but I never had enough time to finish it


I have the CD now but can't get it to run on XP

>>1122753
There was also Word Munchers. I used to play these on 5 1/4" Floppy disk on old Apple computers (remember the rainbow apple logo?) in about the 6th grade, like 1995.

Pic related

>>1121735
topkek

>>1123280
<3

>>1121812
dude, I just turned 21 tonight! Sipping a steel reserve (poorfag don't judge), I remember when phones had wires, and more to the point, could'nt be moved more than a 10 foot radius around the walljack. I remember when using the internet involved dialing in and hearing that screeching noise not unlike phone fellatio. I remember having to use tv-guide to find something to watch. I remember having an absurd stupid antennae poking out of my house just to pick up maybe 20 channels.

I feel old sometimes too, I feel your pain anon. Through this board we can all pretend it's still the 90's when things were simpler and life was good.

In 1997 I would have been 3 years old.

When I was that old, the only games I'd ever played were this and maybe some of the games from the Microsoft Entertainment Pack.

I didn't really get into gaming until I was about 4.

Lel, a janitor submitted a ban request because I mentioned that I was 3 years old in 1997.
Nice basic maths skills, janitor. You might want to look into buying "Jumpstart: First Grade Math".

Anyway, in 1997 pic related is the only game that I know I played, but I might have also played some Microsoft Entertainment Package games.

>>1121764

>>1123224
Teacher didn't give a flying fuck about what did we play. The only rule was "no pirated games", but he rarely would get mad over that.

Looking back, one of the coolest teachers I've had, ever.

>>1121812
>24, I realize I'm not THAT old
I'm 27. You're a kid, son.

>>1126575
I'm 37. You're both pups.

>>1126593
Whoa there, pops.

There was some really old game where you could build rocket ships and see how high you could get them to go with different payloads. It had black background and graphics kinda looked like an old Apple II.

Same for a paper airplane type game. Anyone remember these?

Played the shit out of the demo for this. Would've been around 2002 but the computers we had were all old Pentiums.

I'm 19

Used to play the shit out of the demo for this. It was around 2002, but the computers were all old Pentiums running Win95 so it still had that late 90s feeling.

I'm 19

>>1121685
You were lucky then. I'm guessing, also not american? Most American schools had Apple II's of some flavor then macs when they came.

>>1121495
> it's 1997, you're in elementary school,
Move it back four years then sure.

What do I play? Nothing, because the computers are shit, every other schmuck is using them and the only they have there is a piss poor version of oregon's trail.
So I'll read or watch then I'll just use my computer when I get home anyway.
The majority of my school career was mostly not using computers anyway. There's still hardly a reason to touch them beyond research, typing a paper or teaching statistics or office admin stuff. Though the tablets instead of book bags is a nice idea.