Games on School PCs
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- paranoid marvin
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Games on School PCs
How about a feature on those games we use to play on school computers in the 80s? There were some great entertaining educational games which I'm sure the majority of us have played at some stage. There must be many which we have forgotten about , or can't remember the name of
For sure many of them are dificult to play nowadays as emulators/roms are not as readily available
(I dont think we've had such a feature before?)
For sure many of them are dificult to play nowadays as emulators/roms are not as readily available
(I dont think we've had such a feature before?)
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Re: Games on School PCs
That would be approximately none. We weren't allowed near the computers, except for a BASIC course where there was a single Speccy and that'd be used to run the stuff we'd written. A course that taught the teacher quite a lot. We'd get a few minutes at the end to have a look at new games other kids had brought in, but they were run of the mill arcade titles, not educational stuff.paranoid marvin wrote:those games we use to play on school computers in the 80s?
Even when my own kids were growing up I never saw an educational 'game' that looked remotely fun, so we didn't buy any. All the reviews were decidedly average at best. They did like Sonic though.
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Re: Games on School PCs
'Edutainment' games werent much fun on home machines , but the ones on the (even then) low-spec school machines were actually quite entertainingAntiriad2097 wrote:That would be approximately none. We weren't allowed near the computers, except for a BASIC course where there was a single Speccy and that'd be used to run the stuff we'd written. A course that taught the teacher quite a lot. We'd get a few minutes at the end to have a look at new games other kids had brought in, but they were run of the mill arcade titles, not educational stuff.paranoid marvin wrote:those games we use to play on school computers in the 80s?
Even when my own kids were growing up I never saw an educational 'game' that looked remotely fun, so we didn't buy any. All the reviews were decidedly average at best. They did like Sonic though.
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Well we used to have immense fun on the school BBC's playing several games like Frak!, Zalaga and Granny's Garden, and also programming with languages like Logo and Comal! I've written a piece about it on my website :
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Dont remember playing any educational games at school or in break. I think most people remember playing Frak! whenever they could when the teacher wasnt looking or during 'computer club' when you were meant to be learning but you simply loaded up Frak!
With so many games to play on my Speccy, mates C64, friends BBC i was never interested in any 'educational' games back then
With so many games to play on my Speccy, mates C64, friends BBC i was never interested in any 'educational' games back then
We had Apple II's (and clones - ? apricots) at the school I went to in Oz. I remember lining up to get a crack at Conan, Swashbuckler, Wizardy, and Ultima. Got to love the monochrome green and orange screens!
I remember playing something called Lemonade Stand in class to teach us about becoming budding young Gateses or should that be Gati?
I remember playing something called Lemonade Stand in class to teach us about becoming budding young Gateses or should that be Gati?
Along with Snake on the RM, I remember a little train game that a few of us used to play. We used to play Grannies Garden and Killer Gorilla, until someone broke in and pinched the Beeb 
Also on the RM was some other kind of game where you are stuck in an static asteroid belt and have to enter coordinates to navigate through it, possibly you had a limited amount of lazers that you could fire too.

Also on the RM was some other kind of game where you are stuck in an static asteroid belt and have to enter coordinates to navigate through it, possibly you had a limited amount of lazers that you could fire too.
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we had the Nimbus machines at my secondary school and they all had Prince Of Persia and Star Trek 25th Anniversary on them.
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