/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6381656]

ITT: games you used to play on PCs and Macs in elementary/middle school

[Anonymous No.6381659]

>>6381656
Holy shit I thought I dreamed this game

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[Anonymous No.6382292]

>>6381656
PangeaSoft was the king of computer lab gaming. I remember owning almost all their games on my dad's Mac at home and inviting my friends over to play the full version of Bugdom and shit.

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[Anonymous No.6382482]

>>6381656

[Anonymous No.6382516]

My niggy Arthurt had the hottest games on Macintosh.

[Anonymous No.6383438]

Used to do endurance runs where I'd never stop to eat, sleep or get gas to see how big a bill I could rack up by the end

[Anonymous No.6383462]

Mostly zoomers in here, I guess.

[Anonymous No.6383665]

>>6382292
Nanosaur!

[Anonymous No.6383743]

>>6381656
It sucked

[Anonymous No.6383749]

>>6383462
I remember this

[Anonymous No.6383764]

[Anonymous No.6383868]

I fucked up the family’s Windows 98 PC trying to download Moz Pong online, good times

[Anonymous No.6385471]

I can't remember the name but it was an australian math game where you played as a guy or a gal are rode a snake in a desert and solved multiplication problems. there was also a stage were you were platforming and pterodactyls could shit on you.
I've looked online and there is no trace. It was a game made for schools but my parents bought me a home copy from the school after I asked. i think my best hope of finding it would be to find a school supply catalog from the late 90s -early 2000s.

[Anonymous No.6385482]

>>6385471
I looked through lists of Australian game dev studios and publishers(as their never has been that many). and couldn't find anything i assume because they were selling directly to schools they weren't considered a video game studio or they just weren't that well known.

[Anonymous No.6385508]

>>6381656
This shit was cash. We also had Nanosaur 2 but that's probably not /vr/ enough.

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[Anonymous No.6385543]

>>6382302
That was a fun one

[Anonymous No.6385565]

>Miniclip got banned from school because "it gave the computers viruses"
>everyone still went on it anyway

[Anonymous No.6385568]

>>6381656
Damn that hit me hard with nostalgia... I remember being the king of class because I found out if you held the tilde key it would let you choose any level.

[Anonymous No.6385579]

the secret island of motherfucking dr quandary

[Anonymous No.6385589]

this game is literally injected into my brain

[Anonymous No.6385591]

>>6382482
What game is this?

[Anonymous No.6385638]

Spelling Blizzard

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[Anonymous No.6385647]

>>6383743
the absolute jam

[Anonymous No.6385725]

>>6382516
This was on Windows too tard.

[Anonymous No.6385768]

>>6385725
he didn't claim otherwise

[Anonymous No.6385816]

There was a strange port/emulation of major havoc on the class computer when I was in kindergarten. It still puzzles me to this day how it got there.

[Anonymous No.6385870]

>>6385589
I highly recommend I Spy Treasure Hunt if you haven't already played it. It's the same kind of comfy.

[Anonymous No.6385876]

>>6381656
That unlocked a deep memory within me

[Anonymous No.6385906]

>>6385638
You mean Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks got a sequel? When did that happen?

[Anonymous No.6386016]

>>6385589
>>6382482
These two and Mathstorm were my jam. Ispy is very underatted. Wish this was on Steam.

[Anonymous No.6386050]

The GOAT

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[Anonymous No.6386071]

Didn't play it at school but I remember playing this edutainment at home a ton.
>>6382302
this
>>6382292
also this dino game

[Anonymous No.6386072]

there was a puzzle game on one of my primary schools' acorn machines that i think was called "!Um", but i have not been able to find it

[Anonymous No.6386079]

[Anonymous No.6386383]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9uc0szy1Cmo

[Anonymous No.6386408]

Im only 24 so the PCs at my elemenentary school used windows 2000. Everyone played math blaster right? Besides that we also used marvis beacon and kid pix, the yuge.

I believe in my 3rd grade glass we had an older windows 98 machine with lego island on it.

I seem to very vageuly recall a point and click game with a rabbit?

[Anonymous No.6386561]

I remember playing Elifoot, Sim City and Lemmings.

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[Anonymous No.6386874]

>>6382292
iirc weren't all of their games ported to windows? i can't seem to find anything about the pc versions on their website, but i could have sworn i played nanosaur on an older windows machine

[Anonymous No.6386889]

>>6386874
Yep. I have Bugdom running in windows 7 with very little issues. And Nanosaur works in windows 10, see pcgamingwiki.

[Anonymous No.6386905]

>>6386561
>Elifoot

Every "sporty" dude in my class loved that bullshit game.
A bunch of chads sitting in the computer room playing that game for hours and hours was something very common to see.

[Anonymous No.6387112]

Any /vr/tards play this?

[Anonymous No.6387761]

>>6381656
Holy shit Bugdom.

We had 4 colored iMac G3's in my first grade classroom and everybody played this or Nanosaur. There was never enough time to make it past the feet level before we got kicked off the computer, and none of us knew the level skip codes.

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[Anonymous No.6388010]

>>6386561
I would have killed to play sim city and lemmings in school. I guess they're somewhat educational

[Anonymous No.6388028]

>>6385543
Definitely played this

[Anonymous No.6388048]

>>6381656
mixed up mother goose, treasure mountain, gizmos and gadgets

[Anonymous No.6388059]

>>6383438
shit I remember that game

[Anonymous No.6388167]

>>6386408
based

[Anonymous No.6390120]

>>6386624
Oh my god this so much.

[Anonymous No.6390815]

>>6381656
real niggas were down with DDP (yeah, you know me)

[Anonymous No.6390869]

>>6381659
>>6381656
I first saw this game as a store demo when I was 2-3 years old. Took me well over a decade to actually find it (I was 16-17).

[Anonymous No.6390871]

>>6381656
Shout out to fellow retroontariofags, we dabbin on these suckas with our bespoke educational computer.

Cargo Sailor, good times.

[Anonymous No.6391412]

>>6381656
the Tribes demo was installed on all the computers at the computer club in middle school although we were forced to uninstall it as the district starting pushing a zero tolerance policy in ~2000. I also played the full version on toaster at home for years until lolpoor got in the way

[Anonymous No.6393760]

fuck burgle desu

[Anonymous No.6394805]

>>6386071
Holy shit I haven’t seen this game in roughly 20 years now

[Anonymous No.6394835]

>>6382302
This, math blasters, and putt-putt

[Anonymous No.6395440]

>>6386050
I've always been a Spellbound bro myself.

>tfw couldn't finish it because our class computer didn't have speakers

[Anonymous No.6395448]

Pic related. THANK HEAVENS FOR GEYSERS

Dope soundtrack too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt1EfVKbw0g&list=PL34B37A7D7E7AFB07

>>6390871
Is that a trackball built into the keyboard? Can you still buy those?

[Anonymous No.6395464]

>>6386408
You're probably referring to one of the reader rabbit games

[Anonymous No.6395472]

>>6382516
I always found it oddly 'comfy' when I saw cartoons of characters playing games on a computer. Something about sitting on a chair and using a clicky keyboard or even a joystick, it looked so mesmerizing. Gamecenter CX sort of does it for me, and I think I know why, having the console and display within an arm's reach seems more more intuitive then setting far away from it, especially if you're planning on playing a different game.

[Anonymous No.6395513]

>>6381656
Pic related along with Moon Patrol and Oregon Trail.

[Anonymous No.6395674]

>>6382292
this was the stuff

[Anonymous No.6395694]

>>6386069
Fuck Taxing

[Anonymous No.6395705]

>>6383743
>>6381945
fairly confident you morons have both posted some zoomerbini mobile remake or something, ironically

also
>It sucked
eat a fucking dick you waste of carbon

[Anonymous No.6395789]

>>6395705
There. You happy?

Oh, and is still sucked. Fucking wop birds.

[Anonymous No.6395809]

>>6381656
Odell down under was ludo on MacOS and 3.1/95 alike. Even had a creator that let you get stronger as you progressed through the main campaign; picrel, which doesn't show off the pixel art.
Apple II and later Oregon trail are fun too.

[Anonymous No.6396521]

>>6383764
looks cursed

[Anonymous No.6396527]

>>6385508
>This shit was cash
you have to be 18 to post here

[Anonymous No.6397050]

>>6395448
Yep, trackball built in. No, they were custom built for Ontario schools and destroyed upon retirement (you'd also need the related server as these were terminals). Surviving examples are exceedingly rare:
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/a39uvh/working_cemcorp_icon_and_unisys_icon_2/

If you just mean can you still buy keyboards with trackballs built in, yeah there are some shitty media-centre style keyboards with trackballs.

[Anonymous No.6397061]

>>6381656
You had shit like this in elementary school? Spoiled youngfag. My kids have smart boards instead of chalk boards in their classrooms in my daughters elementary school and the same in addition to laptops for every kid to use that they take to each class in my sons middle school. Shits crazy.

Heres what I played in middle school, Oregon Trail on Apple IIs that were old as fuck even then.

[Anonymous No.6397065]

>>6397050
Terminals, eh? Were they slow as shit?

Also that whole set up sounds unnecessarily expensive

[Anonymous No.6397067]

Some game in which you played as some sort of mouse going places. Had math questions.

[Anonymous No.6397074]

>>6396527
Considering that is an ancientfag meme I would figure he probably is over 18.

[Anonymous No.6397079]

In kindergarten I'd play either Oregon Trail on an old Apple II after school or Bugdoom on a mac. In 5th grade I remember playing Cro-Mag Rally, shit was pretty cash. Still wish I'd find the time to go back and try playing Budgom again

[Anonymous No.6397085]

>>6397079
I'm playing through the 360 port of Bugdoom 2 right now, I'm enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.6397090]

I went to an inner city school so the only time we used computers was once a month. I remember doing Power Point and Sim City 2000.

I was a pro though because I had a computer at home. I think the schools were still 30% white and Asian then. Now the district is 93% black and Latino. We went from blue collar wealthy factory town to top 10 in violent crime ghetto hellscape. Immigration is a hell of a drug.

[Anonymous No.6397096]

>>6390815
I used to play this on my c64

[Anonymous No.6397101]

>>6397090
Coons will do that, it's in their nature.

[Anonymous No.6397142]

Used to play Escape Velocity. A whole bunch.

EVEdit was the best modding app for it! I used to easily mod for better weapons and such.

The first two games were Mac-only, but the third was cross-platform.

The second game is finally getting a remaster!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-frontier-override/

[Anonymous No.6397292]

>>6397065
Yeah, they were pretty slow, but oddly advanced in some ways (at least for a stretch in the mid eighties).

Expensive, yes. But the province paid the majority of the cost because they met some bureaucratic standard, making them cheap for the schools themselves. Whole thing was pretty ill-advised in hindsight, given how fast technology was progressing... Interesting historical oddity though.

[Anonymous No.6397337]

>>6397096
those were the days, fellow boomer

[Anonymous No.6397425]

>>6385565
zoomer

[Anonymous No.6397446]

>>6381656
Liero, every day we could with my friend
2 player on the same keyboard
carried it around with me on a floppy disk

[Anonymous No.6397479]

>>6385534
Probably the first computer game I ever played.

[Anonymous No.6397492]

>>6397446
Now that's a game I haven't played in ages... Well OpenLiero, exactly. Shame that the online community is quite dead.

[Kotonohas' Husbando No.6397656]

>>6385534
The first time I played this and this happened it scared the fuck out of me. And to this day I never played this shit again

[Anonymous No.6397728]

this was so fun to play as a kid, the colors were so intense and vivid

[Anonymous No.6397743]

Crosscountry USA and Number Munchers in elementary school.
>>6386069
My man.

[Anonymous No.6397887]

>>6397728
Treasure Math Storm! Oh yeah!

[Anonymous No.6397906]

Anyone remember a math videogame set in the medieval ages about a frog who had to save this little girl who was a princess?

[Anonymous No.6397937]

>>6385542
Every time I see the word foyer or a pool table I think of this game.
>>6385638
Played the original one in a VM recently and WOW Sierra edutainment had some fantastic smooth character animation. The demo was included on this specific disc which I have found zero mention of on the Internet.
>>6386071
>>6386408
I loved the 256-color Windows versions of these

[Anonymous No.6398074]

>>6382516
Anyone have a clip of the singing cookies from the educational Arthur game? from around 1999

[Anonymous No.6398094]

This and the math based equivalent where you zap TV robots in a TV station or something.

[Anonymous No.6398107]

>>6397142
Came here to post this. Also: fuck Captain Hector

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[Anonymous No.6398289]

>>6398138
this gave me a noogie in all the right places. . . I think it came with another really simple programming program that was like basic but every line was a > symbol followed by a lot of if or text statements

[Anonymous No.6398730]

>>6381656
Sadly nothing, PC's in the schools I went to were heavily regulated in the elementary and middle school level. No games, only for school work. Gameboys, giga pets, and tomogachi's were banned.

[Anonymous No.6398885]

>>6381656
A bunch of people have posted TLC Supersolver games. What were the best ones?

[Anonymous No.6398901]

>>6398289
>every line was a > symbol followed by a lot of if or text statements
so, 4chan?

[Anonymous No.6398952]

>>6398901
nah, some Macantosh 8 or 9 easy programming thing

[Anonymous No.6398974]

I remember playing something with a bunch of chess-like games on it. Does anyone remember the name?

[Anonymous No.6399045]

>>6395789
Maybe if you had paid attention and actually Built Advanced Thinking Skills you'd be able to tell the difference between a retro game and a mobile remake.

[Anonymous No.6399084]

>>6398974
Terminator Chess?

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>>6398107
The remake will be on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

It will even work with existing plug-ins. That means the original EV and EV Nova scenarios could become available eventually.

[Anonymous No.6401468]

>>6386710
Wauw, ik vroeg me al jaren geleden af hoe dit heet.

[Anonymous No.6401604]

There was this board game one based on alice in wonderland where you used to put math equations together with numbers and symbols they give you to move your character it was pretty fun but I cant find anything online just that an alice in wonderland adventure game. Also spellevator was good shit.
>>6382302
I liked number jumpers better but that one was still good.
>>6385543
Rocket factory is barely a game but I still played the shit out of it haha

[Anonymous No.6402347]

>>6385641
YES

[Anonymous No.6402353]

>>6381656

[Anonymous No.6402369]

>>6381870

lol fuck off little kid - /vr/ is for adults

[Anonymous No.6402379]

>>6381870
>>6402369
I had fun iterating random movements until it made a full circle, creating pretty neat shapes. In fact I don't think there's any other point for this language.

[Anonymous No.6402812]

>>6397743
Motherfucker. I opened this thread and thought about this exact game that hasn’t crossed my mind in 20-ish years, then I see your post. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.6403290]

>>6387112
Yeah it sucked

[Anonymous No.6403317]

My favorite edutainment game. This shit ruled.

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[Anonymous No.6403354]

does anyone remember that game where you play as a droopy eyed alien in new york. Late 90s early 00s? I think it was something like "mookie takes the big apple" but I cannot find it, haven't ever been able to. Or what about a game that teaches you about art (maybe other things), you go to a barber shop and it teaches you about the spinning pole...these two are my holy grails

pic related is mookie but he looked cuter and more cheerful

[Anonymous No.6403402]

>>6402379

yeah, my teacher was proud of me for making a decent triangle, when most of my class couldn't.

it was the OG "newfags can't triforce".