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2096404 No.2096404 [Reply] [Original]

What early Apple games did you play at school?

>> No.2096416
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>> No.2096417

Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego

That's it. That's all they ever fucking had.

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hell to the yeah

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Bad ones.

>> No.2096561

>>2096547
Goddamn that shit was sick. I could play that forever.

>> No.2096563

>>2096561
primordial soup, mofo

>> No.2096574

Robot Odyssey! Fuck me, that game was great. Made by the same group that did Rocky's Boots and Gertrude's Puzzles. Broderbund, was it? The latter two were for 3-yr-olds though, compared to the former.

No one else seems to have heard of Robot Odyssey when i bring it up. You played a guy who got stuck in the sewer system of a big city, and found three robots. You have to escape the sewer system by altering the internal wiring on the robots, each of which has one gripper claw, and bumper on each of the cardinal points along with a jet. You use and/or/not boolean logic gates and flipflops to build logical circuits inside the robots, extremely simple at first but increasingly complex, in order to get them to navigate mazes and pick up objects or grab levers.

Fucking incredible concept, taught me more about the inside of computers at age 8 than i learned at university. By far the best, most engaging, and most effective educational game i've ever come across. Why no one has thought to use that mechanic again i cannot fathom.

>> No.2096585

>>2096404
Reader motherfucking Rabbit

>> No.2096587
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Motherfucking Mazewars.

>> No.2096592

Math/Word Muncher and Operation Frog.

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Microzine or bust

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>> No.2096609

>>2096603
Ooooooooooooooooo

>> No.2097010

Wonderland Puzzles was my favorite.
Also Odell Lake, Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Paper Plane Pilot, Rocket Factory, Carmen Sandiego.

There was also this game where you had a turtle that you could tell to move in certain directions and it would draw vector graphics of the path it took. In retrospect I now recognize it as essentially an introduction to concepts of programming for children and wish I had played more with it. At the time I just thought it was weird and unfulfilling.

>> No.2099683
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>Freedom
>You are a black slave trying to escape to a state where slavery is illegal.
>Almost escape when teachers come in, declare game racist, take it away.
>Childhood trauma because I never escaped my virtual oppressors.

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>> No.2100927

>>2099683
you know

like in real life

>> No.2100931

My memory fails me but there was a spelling wizard game that helped with typing and a game where you drive a taxi to learn about how find your way around.

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>> No.2100939

At school?

Math Blaster Plus.

Tonk in the land of Buddy Bots.

The Halley Project.

>> No.2101371

Our school's only computer was an Apple II with Oregon Trail.

This was in 1998.

>> No.2102523

>>2096404
oregon trail, carmen sandiego, treasure mountain, treasure mathstorm

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>> No.2102592

>>2097010
>Odell Lake

Fuck those Osprey.

>> No.2102724

we learned Delta Drawing on Apple IIs when I was in kindergarten.

Delta. Fucking. Drawing.

Imagine my surprise when I found out the little arrow was ACTUALLY called a turtle.

>> No.2102725

bobo's funhouse.

can't find the fucking thing anywhere, it was part of some magazine edutainment diskset and it was the only one never seen dumped online.

i've scoured for years and found like 2 forum posts bringing it up.

at one point before I found the forum posts I thought I imagined it.

all I remember is finding the garlic gum to give the clown so he doesn't send you back to the entrance when you come across him at one point.

other than that, I played:

- Odell lake
- Lemonade Stand
- Oregon Trail
- Turtle draw thing

>> No.2102750

>>2097010
>a turtle that you could tell to move in certain directions and it would draw

Logo, it was called. And it was, in fact, a very simple programming language, yes.

>> No.2102756

>>2100937
Velcome, to Muzik Ass!

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>>2096597
>Not the rhomboid boxes.

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Had a computer lab at school. Played Sim City and this.

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>>2096574
I remember that game on the Tandy 1000 with the cyan-magenta-white color scheme. Never beat it.

>> No.2103648

>>2099683
I played this.

California Games, World Games, Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego series, Number Munchers, Battle Chess, Some really simple animation software that I can't remember the name, Wings of Fury.

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>> No.2104693

>>2096417
holy fuck did you go to my school

>> No.2104715

>>2103742

MAH NIGGA!

>> No.2104824

Oregon trail
Carmen Sandiego
Storybook Weaver
Spin Doctor (Clockwerx)

>> No.2104829

>>2103710
this

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Good times

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The only other people I know that have played this game were people in my kindergarten class.

No idea what to do in the fucking thing, but we figured out how to haggle and that drinking ale made your character's eyes spin and that was funny.

>> No.2105104

>>2102592
Oh man
>Okay, it started... where's the fi--OH FUCK DIVE DIVE DIVE

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In elementary school we had this in our 1st grade in-classroom Apple computer.

While the computer lab itself of course had Number Munchers and Oregon Trail.

In middle school our computer lab had Apple ports of Taipan and Mario Bros (the 1983 arcade game)

>> No.2105905

>>2104840
Holy shit, i played this. I fought pirates and made it through a labyrinth. Also, if you try to steal the castle's gold, all the guards flip.

>> No.2106003

>>2102750

>>2102724

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I remember playing floppy and Tetris on an Apple IIgs my 6th grade science teacher had, but that was it (the schools I went to after 1st grade used PCs...)
>>2096603
I had Treasure Mathstorm on my Machintosh LC II (Pic is the DOS version; I can't find any pics of the mac version online)

>> No.2106013

>>2106008
Eat the motherfucking otter. Do it faggot.

>> No.2106019

I largely didn't. The closest thing I had was logo during typing class in jr. high or watching other kids play oregon trail or typing games in elementary. I didn't mind letting other kids use computers at school because I already had four to seven C64s at home and a ton of games and online access. I could also type 65-80WPM in elementary school tests while everyone else was plucking away learning keys. Though over the years my speed has only increased moderately to 80-110.

>> No.2106026

>>2106019
and now you're a useless piece of shit neet who spends all his time on a board dedicated to retro video games trying to relive his childhood since that was the only time in his life he wasn't a complete failure

>> No.2106034

A lot of Math Blasters. I also remember there was this weird virtual board game. I don't remember much but one of the characters was a mouse and it did a gay little dance every time you made a good move.

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>>2106026

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>>2106026

>> No.2106202

>>2106026
> his childhood since that was the only time in his life he wasn't a complete failure
No. The idea of a complete failure is incompatible with modern economic theory. Productivity is antiproductive given our current economic, legal and social systems. The least failure thing you can do is maintain bare minimum until classical systems are restructured to meet the demands of the modern era.

Also, no because the problem is modern gaming is shit, that's why I'm posting on a retro board rather than a general/modern board. Yet one more problem due to the prior. I don't relive my childhood in the slightest, it was shitty as fuck anyway. I just play non shitty and least shitty games I can, which happen to be retro games.

Also, enjoy the irony of posting that on /vr/.

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>>2106019
>four to seven C64s at home

>> No.2106264

>>2106202
complete failure detected

>> No.2106305

>>2102750
Everyone's exposure to Logo is just drawing stars and shapes. So they're left with the impression it's a kiddie language for drawing pictures.
PD REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1] HTholy shit. a circle!

The language is actually based on Lisp. and contains way more than just turtle graphics.

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- Lunar Greenhouse
- Odell Lake
- Oregon Trail
- Number and Word Munchers

There are others, but these stick out the most to me.

>> No.2107451

>>2096603
god like. this and the sequel treasure cove

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>>2106264

>> No.2107674

So how we ended from this >>2106019

To this >>2106026

For a second i thought i was in a /lit/ thread.

>> No.2108958

>>2107674
To be fair, that first post had absolutely nothing to do with the thread whatsoever which is probably why he got a response like that.

>> No.2108964

>>2107661
>spent his allowance on bitcoins
>he's now a millionaire while you're a wage slave at McDonald's

>> No.2109051

>>2108964
>bitcoins worth thousands of dollars
>but only if you believe they are
>also nobody takes them