RocketMan on 4/12/2008 at 17:09
Anybody remember being back in elementary school and having those ghetto computers in the school library with the trackballs and windows 3.1? I remember them and they had this math game on them that I can't find on the net nor remember the name for. Basically you could choose to be either a knight or a wizard, with either a sword or a wand as your weapon. It was a maze game where you are a big pixel in the middle of a black screen and you move the trackball around to move your guy but because of the "fog of war" or the black screen you just move randomly until you find a direction that reveals a piece of the maze...so you unravel more and more maze and periodically you'll move to a space that triggers a math problem....some little scene with you and a dragon or something will pop up and the enemy will ask you a question....you enter the right answer and you kill him..otherwise I think you get hurt and then you can use potions and stuff to heal yourself until eventually you die.
Does anyone know what this is called so I can find it?
Also feel free to discuss more really oldschool games that bring back nostalgia from your childhood.
gunsmoke on 4/12/2008 at 18:00
Sorry, my school had Apple ][ computers. Wish I could help.
io organic industrialism on 4/12/2008 at 20:22
Yeah my HIGHschool had monochrome mac's that we used for computer science class... However they were way outdated at the time, I think pentium 3 500's were available while I was learning pascal on a monochome screen. What the fuck
Hoorah for public school funding
RocketMan on 4/12/2008 at 22:11
Naw it's way more basic than that. The main game screen is a black screen with a white dot (that's you). The only graphics are when you hit an area of the maze that has a math question. It's 2D overhead for the maze part.
PigLick on 4/12/2008 at 23:32
My school had one Amiga.
Fringe on 4/12/2008 at 23:55
My school had an abacus made of human fingerbones.
june gloom on 5/12/2008 at 00:14
As long as we're on the subject, I seem to recall a very old DOS game using ASCII that was centered around a castle, and it had stuff like an angry demon, a vampire, et cetera. A friend of mine and I played it and we got all excited when we found a sword.
What the hell was that game?
june gloom on 5/12/2008 at 01:28
That's the one, thanks.
As I recall, my friend's mother, who was very religious (just like mine) took offense to the game and he and I were subjected to a nasty little meeting with our mothers as well as his extended family about demon possession and the evils of modern media, among other things. Man growing up was a blast.
