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In my 1st grade classroom there was a Packard Bell PC running Windows 95 that had the arcade game Major Havoc installed on it. I was fascinated with that computer as it was the first I ever used, and I'm pretty sure I clicked every single file I could find on that thing. Eventually I stumbled upon an executable file called Major Havoc under the programs listed in the start menu. From what I remember and having played it on mame now, it was a 1:1 port of the arcade game, with all the controls being mapped to the mouse.
Does anyone else have similar experiences with different games? Were these likely running on mame or was that not a thing back then? I haven't been able to find any information on a PC port of Major Havoc.

>> No.5373254

If it was an executable, it was likely a bootleg someone made in their garage. What it would be doing on the school computer, I have no idea.

>> No.5373308

>>5373254
That's pretty cool if that's the case. That computer definitely felt like a "one off". It was the only PC in the classroom itself while all the others were in the computer lab. I'm thinking it was maybe one of the teacher's old home computers, or something that was picked up second hand.

>> No.5373327

>>5373240
I installed Blood on my school's 7th grade English Class Computer. It was there for a few years until the very religious teacher found it and freaked out. LOL I guess alot of kids a few years younger than I had found it and had been secretly playing it for those few years.

>> No.5373346

It was in the atari anthology for windows but that was in 2003.

>> No.5373357

>>5373346
good to know anon, but yeah this would have been between 1998-1999

>> No.5373675

>>5373327
I love shit like that man. At my school it was the halo ce demo which allowed you to play LAN multiplayer matches. CS 1.6 was also a big one

>> No.5373721

>>5373357
mame existed then

>> No.5373785
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5373785

it was a couple years before Scorched Earth came out.

>> No.5375578

>>5373240
>How is this possible that someone doesn't remember exactly what happened when they were a child
Same way they don't understand what a 1:1 port is. Peoples brains aren't perfect. In this case highly imperfect.

>> No.5375580

>>5375578
great contribution to the thread dumbass. Who cares if it was a 1:1 port or not, it was the same game and there's no information online about it ever being playable on PC.
The question of the thread is not "how is it possible" that an 80s arcade game was running on WIndows 95, but how come such an obscure port that no one knows about was on his school computer.

>> No.5375687

>>5373254
In highschool in the 90's virtually every computer in the school had games hidden on it. Almost all the Doom I've played was in drafting class.

>> No.5376165

>>5373785
>that one kid who always had to take funky bombs and killed everyone including himself

>> No.5376174

>>5373254
Like that weird PC Mario DOS clone?

>> No.5376242

>>5375580
Clearly OP cares if it was 1:1 because he claimed it was 1:1:. The literal title of the thread is "How is this possible?", fucktard. There's no evidence any "obscure port" existed other than some "that kid" posting on an anonymous board about something he thinks he remembers from 20 years ago. Exactly how retarded are you?

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5376330

I think it may have come from this collection, OP. Atari Anniversary 80 classics in One! collection for Win9x has an arcade port of Major Havoc in it. I have never played it, though. So I could not tell you if it was an an emulation or a port.

>> No.5376536

>>5373785
Scorched Earth was so fucking based. Never played any other multiplayer PC game like that lol.

>> No.5376645

>>5376330
80 Classic Games in One was released in 2003

>> No.5376670

>>5376645
>80 Classic Games in One was released in 2003

It's the only official port of Major Havoc that I can find for the PC. To my knowledge it was never released on any previous collections. MAME was first introduced in like 1997-1998 for DOS. Maybe it was MAME?

>> No.5376723

>>5376645
>in 2003 op was in first grade at a nigger school still running w95
Thanks for clearing that up