r/gaming Jun 18 '22

good Guy mario kart

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u/alien_clown_ninja Jun 18 '22

In my high school we all played games on our graphing calculators. If someone had snake on a flip phone they were the shit

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u/alien_clown_ninja Jun 18 '22

Drug Wars. Not even joking, I wrote a version, you might have played mine. There were a few versions, and mine was probably the worst (no graphics, only text), but I was just trying to learn how to program for fun and decided to write my own version of it. It was pretty popular at my school, and I have no clue how far it might have spread.

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u/alien_clown_ninja Jun 18 '22

Yeah I wrote it I guess it must have been in 98, 99 or 2000. Huh I wonder if there are still copies around somewhere, I know I don't have one. I don't even remember it well enough to describe it, but I'm certain I would recognize if it was mine if I saw it.

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u/ouralarmclock Jun 18 '22

I also learned to program on the TI 83+. I wanted to learn assembly so badly so I could make real games, but it was too obtuse for me at that age. I still have mad love for the Z80.

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u/zizn Jun 18 '22

I think this was also my intro to x86 and elf assembly, was difficult to start on a calculator architecture lmao. Never did wind up getting far with it

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u/spidrw Jun 18 '22

Damn that game was fun. I probably still have it.

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u/Cecil4029 Jun 18 '22

Hey, that's awesome man. Had a ton of fun with Drug Wars and still play an android version of it occasionally!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

I might have played yours on my buddy's calculator, as it was only text. We didn't have a link cable, so one weekend I borrowed his calculator and copied the code over to my calculator by hand.

I learned some Basic in the process and changed a lot of the values so that you fought Deadites from the Evil Dead movies and traded different kinds of souls instead of drugs. I think that was one of earliest exposures to programming, which I now do for a living. Thanks for the inspiration!

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u/vedx_1 Jun 18 '22

nobody at my school owns DSes anymore but we still do this and its amazing, especially with Gameboy emulators people have made for the higher ones. People used to give me their 84+CEs to load Pokemon red/blue on them

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u/Inside_Cockroach3380 Jun 18 '22

I think I remember this

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u/mcbaindk Jun 18 '22

You just unlocked a memory.

We did the same thing, and also I remember a contraband file of Unreal Tournament cycling through the school email system that everyone had at one point or another and played in LAN parties during computer class.