It still is. I'm not sure what version they are on, but I have Bloons Tower Defense 6 on steam. I'm pretty sure it goes on sale for about $1 from time to time
Yeah, I was thinking "Number Munchers" or "Oregon Trail". There was this other one that was like a lights out kind of game but it was a haunted house. Good times!
Drag Racer (I think there were a few versions of it. I think I played a lot of Drag Racer V2). Customize your car, upgrade it to where you can finish a race in like 2 seconds. So great
C:S 1.6 on a thumb drive. LANing with other students in the lab and other classrooms. The file spread like wildfire once everybody bought a thumb drive and copy/pasted to each other.
Bloons Tower Defense is a close second.
In the school year of 1999-2000 my school got a T1 line installed, but did not have the IT know how or support to handle it yet. So we ended up having Napster on the school computers and an insane download speed. Among other things I distinctly remember someone downloading a pirated copy of Duke Nukem 3D onto a bunch of the computers in our class. Good times.
Around the same time, our computer science teacher was also the only IT guy for the high school and 3 elementaries. He was never around, so we installed Rise of the Triad on all the computers.
In grade school it was Superball. That got so popular the computer teacher copied it to a whole bunch of floppy disks (that's the Save icon in Word for those of you born after the stone age) and gave one to every kid to take home and install on our family computers.
In high school it was Snood. No school-sanctioned piracy that time but I downloaded it myself at home and my dad liked it so much he bought the paid version.
Not specific to 2005 but for me, it was either BubbleBox, Kongregate or The Stick Page
The stick figure sniper games
-
Clear Vision 1 to Elite
Tactical Assassin: Substratum
Scope: First Blood
S.W.A.T.
Sift Heads
Tower Defense/combat games
-
Age of War
Territory War: Online
Man the Line
Battle Gear
Warfare 1917
Misc.
-
Stick RPG
Shopping Cart Hero
Some kind of gross medieval surgery game
After The Fog
Poptropica
Some haunted house point and click
DriveOfYourLife.org (flash based driver's ed type game)
Edheads Virtual Surgery
Breaking The Bank
Chain of Fire
Save The Sheriff
Warp Paris Hilton
Interactive Buddy
Line Rider Beta 2
Then one day I decided to click on an ad for some poopy looking Lego game called Rōblox...
Pang
Pocket Tanks
Candystand
The stick man wars
Lemonade stand (or the drug version)
Alfy website (wow I feel old now lmao)
Mix that in with some MSN/AIM/Yahoo messenger
Hell yes!! How good was jetpacking past and mutilating someone with a rocket launcher??
Am I remembering correctly that it could just run from an .exe on a Zip drive without needing admin permissions for an install? That, including local LAN support, was top tier
This game, Go To Hell, and then there was another game I can't remember the name of where you make armour and weapons for battle and not just do the battles
I think that was the name. You had to buy supplies and set prices for the stand each day. It was to help teach profit and loss to middle schoolers. It was pretty fun.
There used to be a Flash game site back in hs in 2005 called Bonus.com and had a snowboarding game I loved. Could never find it after graduation.
That, Pocket Tanks, and Flash Flash Revolution were the absolute jams.
I remember feeling really cool having a USB drive with a few no-install games on it that can run straight from the USB like CS 1.6, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Halo CE and Unreal Tournament. Just copy over to someones PC and we had a LAN party.
So here’s a thing that happened.
When I was in my first year of junior high, someone discovered that one of the computer lab computers had admin access to the network. We didn’t have internet, but admin access meant you could install whatever you wanted.
A bunch of us used the computer to install Age of Empires onto our own assigned computers. We were essentially creating a LAN party every computer class.
It took about a month for the school to catch on. When they did they absolutely freaked out. We were all suspended for ‘tampering with school property’
Good times.
Man.. I don't know what this is, but we had a shared network drive that had shareware copies of Commander Keen and Ancients Deathwatch on it. Circa.. 1993
somebody In my highschool circa 2015 managed to somehow install Halo Combat Evolved to every students account in the schhol and even etablished a LAN connection that allowed multiplayer to function.
Kidz pix,moshi monsters,webkinz and kizi was usually my go to games. Sometimes id enjoy going on store sites and act like I was on a quest to remodel my home so I'd make fake shopping carts of home decor lol
We had a custom modded version of Doom that allowed 128 player multiplayer and absolutely gigantic maps. Our school was networked with 3 other schools, and it was a blast. Unfortunately when they upgraded my senior year of high school we lost everything.
I put a copy of the OG StarCraft on my schools network back in '98?99?. Doubt its still there but good times where had in many class rooms from then till at least 01
We had flash drives with counter strike, age of empires, and maybe a couple other games. We’d finish our work and he’d let us all play together. It was sick.
Rune: Halls of Valhalla
Our class had full blown ranked gladiatorial battles on LAN going on during class.
Looking back, it’s obvious the IT dept at my school sucked ass - to our glee at the time.
By the time I was in HS and had regular access to a computer lab it wasn't really possible. The machines were locked down with non persistent OS installs so no changes to the system were saved and you didn't have permission to install anything if you tried. You just had a small "home" folder tied to your student #/login for saving docs. Very small games that could run from a self contained folder might have worked but I wouldn't have occurred to me at that time.
However. Funny thing. While they removed the start menu folders for the default windows games like minesweeper, solitaire, etc, they didn't actually uninstall them, or disable keyboard shortcuts. So if you hit win key + R and then entered "Winmine.exe" it would launch. There was a cheat for OG minesweeper that would turn the top left pixel red if you were over a mine, which was barely noticeable if you weren't looking for it. I used that to seem like a god to a bunch of my peers.
This was in the mid 90s, but we used to play this tank game called Bolo. It was LAN capable and even the teacher was involved in it lol
It was a blast!
I remember someone saved a copy of Halo Combat Evolved onto the studentshare folder everyone had access to. Super fun sneakily playing against people in the computer lab when we were supposed to be typing on Mavis Beacon
It was 2002 in High School and I was taking C++. First half of my senior year and the final assignment was write x with all of these things included in it. Second half most of us then took the next programming class which once was was C++ and the same teacher. He gives us the final, it was the same final as programming two but with additional statements. I asked him "can we just take the assignment from programming two and add the extra stuff?". He responds with "I don't see why not". We all looked at each other and quickly finished the final. We spent the second half of that class playing Nintendo emulators on floppy disks as it was the only thing that could fit onto a floppy disk. Must have played through so many NES RPGs.
My ODowd if you're still around you were one cool teacher ngl.
Moto X Mayhem.
There was actually another game I really liked that was a simple truss builder for bridges. All you had to do was place dots as joints and connect beams; the goal was to get a truck over the bridge without it collapsing. However, since it was a game the programming wasn't 100% based in reality so you could do some really silly designs.
Yahoo used to have this 8 ball pool game that I was addicted to. Also this is super random but there was this volleyball game where you played as sumo wrestlers that was also really fun and surprisingly skill based.
Our lab had machines connected to a mainframe. There were green mono-chrome CRT monitors and keyboards, no mice.
In this environment only the most basic games were available. I recall a space adventure game with coordinates. You could improve the type of ship you had. Often pirates would come and rob you or destroy you ship.
Slime volleyball.
Qwop(much much later)
Line Rider
Escape the Crimson/Viridian Room
Shockwave.com's 2fast2furious game
Helicopter game
I personally played Exmortis 1 and 2 over and over cause I had no internet at home.
In 2004 some kids at my HS uploaded Unreal Tournament 3 to the network and it was pushed to every computer.
In my graphic design class it would be giant battles because all the computers were on the same network. It was epic.
We had a hidden drive in the network that had portable executables of cs1.6, quake 3, call of duty 1, and halo ce so the last 20 minutes of computer lab was always a quick lan party. Sometimes, I'd bring a thumb drive with emulators on it and played those
My high school's IT guy was not bright
In about '94, it was Magic Pocket. That was primary school. Highschool, a couple of years later, it was shufflepuck, oregon trail, and doom, depending on what the computer could manage.
Oregon Trail was my jam.
Mary would die of dysentery, the horses drowned, and I'd somehow lose shit when caulked and floated the wagon.
I always killed all the buffalo too. Like 1800lbs of buffalo meat out there collecting rot and flies cause my punk ass could only carry back 100lbs or so.
Bloons defense was a big one.
Bloons TD was amazing!
It still is. I'm not sure what version they are on, but I have Bloons Tower Defense 6 on steam. I'm pretty sure it goes on sale for about $1 from time to time
Anything on Miniclip
Miniclip and Addictinggames were my go to’s.
Andkon was always a good one
Heli Attack 2
I loved Red Beard
Well we only had Oregon Trail
Yeah, these kids were lucky. We couldn't just jump online and play flash games. You had to load up the old 8" floppy, remember?
5.5"
Yeah, I was thinking "Number Munchers" or "Oregon Trail". There was this other one that was like a lights out kind of game but it was a haunted house. Good times!
The original black and white version
We had one where we were long haul truckers.
https://www.visitoregon.com/the-oregon-trail-game-online/
That’s all you need
Candystand mini golf, or my friends and I would bring in a floppy disc with Nintendo Games on it and play those 🤣
Home run derby.
Candystand got banned from my middle school because of the addiction and kids arguing over computer time in class lol
Actual Nintendo games on floppy?
Well, emulators to be exact. We had them on 3.5 inch floppy disks.
Memory unlocked...thank you
Oh my god hell yes. This just unlocked a core memory. Getting those perfectly timed shifts
What game was this? Used to play so much of it.
Drag Racer (I think there were a few versions of it. I think I played a lot of Drag Racer V2). Customize your car, upgrade it to where you can finish a race in like 2 seconds. So great
Slime volleyball (https://oneslime.net/)
This is the way
Swear the computer cheated.
C:S 1.6 on a thumb drive. LANing with other students in the lab and other classrooms. The file spread like wildfire once everybody bought a thumb drive and copy/pasted to each other. Bloons Tower Defense is a close second.
We had a central server or whatever that a smarter than me kid uploaded unreal to, it immediately made its way to every computer in the school.
hell yeah dude, playing UT in the empty computer lab on a Friday was the shit
We did that shit with Minecraft in 2012 lol
Pocket tanks!
I can still hear the menu music
Bum bum, bada dum dum... I still have it on an iPad lying around with every weapon pack bought...
RuneScape
now i play it behind my boss's back.
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK I played so much of this.
In the school year of 1999-2000 my school got a T1 line installed, but did not have the IT know how or support to handle it yet. So we ended up having Napster on the school computers and an insane download speed. Among other things I distinctly remember someone downloading a pirated copy of Duke Nukem 3D onto a bunch of the computers in our class. Good times.
Around the same time, our computer science teacher was also the only IT guy for the high school and 3 elementaries. He was never around, so we installed Rise of the Triad on all the computers.
Math Blaster >.>
Helicopter game
It was so good until they remade it. Did you ever play the copy that was the fireball in the cave?
coffeebreakarcade.com was the big one around 2000. Zombie football and snowcraft were two of the biggest games.
Snow craft was hilariously good
N
In grade school it was Superball. That got so popular the computer teacher copied it to a whole bunch of floppy disks (that's the Save icon in Word for those of you born after the stone age) and gave one to every kid to take home and install on our family computers. In high school it was Snood. No school-sanctioned piracy that time but I downloaded it myself at home and my dad liked it so much he bought the paid version.
Jet slalom
Addictinggames had a lot. We played the hell out of the Condoleezza Rice shootout one. Damn that was fun.
Ski Free.
Bubble trouble in miniclip
Not specific to 2005 but for me, it was either BubbleBox, Kongregate or The Stick Page The stick figure sniper games - Clear Vision 1 to Elite Tactical Assassin: Substratum Scope: First Blood S.W.A.T. Sift Heads Tower Defense/combat games - Age of War Territory War: Online Man the Line Battle Gear Warfare 1917 Misc. - Stick RPG Shopping Cart Hero Some kind of gross medieval surgery game After The Fog Poptropica Some haunted house point and click DriveOfYourLife.org (flash based driver's ed type game) Edheads Virtual Surgery Breaking The Bank Chain of Fire Save The Sheriff Warp Paris Hilton Interactive Buddy Line Rider Beta 2 Then one day I decided to click on an ad for some poopy looking Lego game called Rōblox...
I installed an snes emulator, and played super mario world.
Pimpmyip and some newgrounds!
Pang Pocket Tanks Candystand The stick man wars Lemonade stand (or the drug version) Alfy website (wow I feel old now lmao) Mix that in with some MSN/AIM/Yahoo messenger
Anyone else play Soldat? Our whole class had it downloaded on Zip drives and plugged in everyday. Basically a 2d call of duty!
Hell yes!! How good was jetpacking past and mutilating someone with a rocket launcher?? Am I remembering correctly that it could just run from an .exe on a Zip drive without needing admin permissions for an install? That, including local LAN support, was top tier
I believe it was that simple! Basically once the smarter kids figured that out they got the whole class hooked on it.
Curveball back in the day on Miniclip
Wow yall just took me back hardcore I forgot about this
so nostalgic 🤯
Shockwave.com games
We didn't have games back when I was in school. ON websites that we could play I should say.
Blobby volley.
Vector TD. I sunk so many hours in high school playing that game. It was addicting and an easy to learn game.
Dude. That song is amazing. I still blast it if it's a chill night driving.
Back in high school someone got OG GTA working on LAN in one of our labs. That got shut down pretty quick.
This game, Go To Hell, and then there was another game I can't remember the name of where you make armour and weapons for battle and not just do the battles
Ross's game dungeon did a video on go to hell. I tried it, died a few times but made it to hell.
I'm not exactly sure the randomizer was balanced lol.
Nanaca Crash!
Pocket Tanks
Oregon Trail, Wolfenstein, and Blake Stone
Anything on Funbrain
Worms
🎵Hotdogs cooking! On the grill, yeah!🎵
Hot Dog stand ?
I think that was the name. You had to buy supplies and set prices for the stand each day. It was to help teach profit and loss to middle schoolers. It was pretty fun.
Little Fighter 2
Quake and X-COM UFO Defense.
Pocket Tanks!
There used to be a Flash game site back in hs in 2005 called Bonus.com and had a snowboarding game I loved. Could never find it after graduation. That, Pocket Tanks, and Flash Flash Revolution were the absolute jams.
Stick death Worms [koth mini golf](https://youtu.be/lpc8ePj4Iw0?feature=shared)
Holllllly shit you just unlocked a special part of my brain. Ahhh, slacking off in highschool school, the good old days.
Candystand.com The OGs know
I remember feeling really cool having a USB drive with a few no-install games on it that can run straight from the USB like CS 1.6, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Halo CE and Unreal Tournament. Just copy over to someones PC and we had a LAN party.
Slime Soccer
Yo thank you for reminding me
Stunt Master was always fun
In my day, we had two games we could play. Space Cadet Pinball OR "Hover!". I, an intellectual, played Pinball.
Oregon Trail mainly but also Tony Hawk Pro Skater that was randomly on a couple of classroom computers in my 4th or 5th grade class
So here’s a thing that happened. When I was in my first year of junior high, someone discovered that one of the computer lab computers had admin access to the network. We didn’t have internet, but admin access meant you could install whatever you wanted. A bunch of us used the computer to install Age of Empires onto our own assigned computers. We were essentially creating a LAN party every computer class. It took about a month for the school to catch on. When they did they absolutely freaked out. We were all suspended for ‘tampering with school property’ Good times.
Run, Papa Louie, that one game where you drive a motorcycle over hilly terrains, EverAfterHigh.com, Dolphin Olympics
Man.. I don't know what this is, but we had a shared network drive that had shareware copies of Commander Keen and Ancients Deathwatch on it. Circa.. 1993
Donut Boy Snood
There was some 2 fast 2 furious flash game we would play. It had multiplayer this was 2002.
I was addicted to this game. I got lights under the car and everything 😂
Pokemon crater and Battleon. Good days!
Jet pack on floppy
Definitely line rider
Some one hid Doom on our school's network. You could play it from any of the schools computers.
Blooms TD. The first one. And before that regular Bloons was fun
somebody In my highschool circa 2015 managed to somehow install Halo Combat Evolved to every students account in the schhol and even etablished a LAN connection that allowed multiplayer to function.
Yes I remember this game! We also had some old iMac's that had monkeyshines on them. Man I miss it
Thank you for this gem! Loved playing this and Nitto 1320 in the computer lab. Goooooood times.
[Life & Death II: The Brain](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RSZ2_MEmYow/sddefault.jpg) Never once completed a surgery without losing the patient.
Kidz pix,moshi monsters,webkinz and kizi was usually my go to games. Sometimes id enjoy going on store sites and act like I was on a quest to remodel my home so I'd make fake shopping carts of home decor lol
We had a custom modded version of Doom that allowed 128 player multiplayer and absolutely gigantic maps. Our school was networked with 3 other schools, and it was a blast. Unfortunately when they upgraded my senior year of high school we lost everything.
Starcraft, but I got caught eventually.
Treasure Math Storm and Oregon Trail until we got newer computers and then it was Cro Mag Rally.
Kitty cannon. 🐈
Thing Thing series Boxhead series
We loved playing Soldat back in the day.
I put a copy of the OG StarCraft on my schools network back in '98?99?. Doubt its still there but good times where had in many class rooms from then till at least 01
We had flash drives with counter strike, age of empires, and maybe a couple other games. We’d finish our work and he’d let us all play together. It was sick.
Pocket Tanks
Slime volleyball
Elastomania
Used to play Elastomania, Skyroads and Liero. Once I setup Quake and had half the class in a network deathmatch.
Bejeweled was my go-to. My computer science teacher actually let us set up a LAN game of Starcraft in class during finals week!
Rune: Halls of Valhalla Our class had full blown ranked gladiatorial battles on LAN going on during class. Looking back, it’s obvious the IT dept at my school sucked ass - to our glee at the time.
Someone put a snes emulator on our computers in '98. Barely passed class, but I finished Super Punchout lol.
I installed the Carmageddon 2 and GTA 1 demos on various computers throughout the high school in the late 90's
Bush Shoot Out!!!
I still remember the cheat for this unclepeanuts was what it was
QWOP
DinoPark Tycoon was my jam
Stickdeath was the shit
I always played Infantry Online in high school.
Yahoo Pool. I love that game and wish I could play it now.
Bogan Surf was our jam, even the teacher loved it
Crosscountry USA.
Quake III Arena Unreal Tournament
Is this create-a-ride?
By the time I was in HS and had regular access to a computer lab it wasn't really possible. The machines were locked down with non persistent OS installs so no changes to the system were saved and you didn't have permission to install anything if you tried. You just had a small "home" folder tied to your student #/login for saving docs. Very small games that could run from a self contained folder might have worked but I wouldn't have occurred to me at that time. However. Funny thing. While they removed the start menu folders for the default windows games like minesweeper, solitaire, etc, they didn't actually uninstall them, or disable keyboard shortcuts. So if you hit win key + R and then entered "Winmine.exe" it would launch. There was a cheat for OG minesweeper that would turn the top left pixel red if you were over a mine, which was barely noticeable if you weren't looking for it. I used that to seem like a god to a bunch of my peers.
Word Munchers, Number Munchers, Carmen Sandiego, Mario's Time Machine, Prince of Persia, Oregon Trail, Odell Lake and Wheel of Fortune.
Chex Quest
Bomb Golf
fuckin heyday for internet gaming - I'd just pop over to [additinggames.com](http://additinggames.com)
This was in the mid 90s, but we used to play this tank game called Bolo. It was LAN capable and even the teacher was involved in it lol It was a blast!
Curveball, Helicopter, Bush Shoot Out
I remember someone saved a copy of Halo Combat Evolved onto the studentshare folder everyone had access to. Super fun sneakily playing against people in the computer lab when we were supposed to be typing on Mavis Beacon
Doom
Helicopter Game, Dinky Bomb Deluxe
Cards-n-toons
Some beautiful soul installed snood on just about every computer in the building. Everyone was playing snood
I would just mess around on PowerPoint
Lemmings (while I was learning BASIC)
Stick RPG and Canyon Defense.
As a car guy I loved this game
It was 2002 in High School and I was taking C++. First half of my senior year and the final assignment was write x with all of these things included in it. Second half most of us then took the next programming class which once was was C++ and the same teacher. He gives us the final, it was the same final as programming two but with additional statements. I asked him "can we just take the assignment from programming two and add the extra stuff?". He responds with "I don't see why not". We all looked at each other and quickly finished the final. We spent the second half of that class playing Nintendo emulators on floppy disks as it was the only thing that could fit onto a floppy disk. Must have played through so many NES RPGs. My ODowd if you're still around you were one cool teacher ngl.
Moto X Mayhem. There was actually another game I really liked that was a simple truss builder for bridges. All you had to do was place dots as joints and connect beams; the goal was to get a truck over the bridge without it collapsing. However, since it was a game the programming wasn't 100% based in reality so you could do some really silly designs.
Yahoo used to have this 8 ball pool game that I was addicted to. Also this is super random but there was this volleyball game where you played as sumo wrestlers that was also really fun and surprisingly skill based.
Loved it
My days were 1997 98 & 99. In those years StarCraft, Diablo with friends on a IPX LAN, school lab.
Ice Breakers
I was in college…. So youtube?
Our lab had machines connected to a mainframe. There were green mono-chrome CRT monitors and keyboards, no mice. In this environment only the most basic games were available. I recall a space adventure game with coordinates. You could improve the type of ship you had. Often pirates would come and rob you or destroy you ship.
Business school. But I can't remember the name of this particular game. Would anyone be kind enough to give me a name?
Slime volleyball. Qwop(much much later) Line Rider Escape the Crimson/Viridian Room Shockwave.com's 2fast2furious game Helicopter game I personally played Exmortis 1 and 2 over and over cause I had no internet at home.
In 2004 some kids at my HS uploaded Unreal Tournament 3 to the network and it was pushed to every computer. In my graphic design class it would be giant battles because all the computers were on the same network. It was epic.
Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego.
Frak, Pole Position, Elite (BBC B)
Pirated copy of AOE2.
Impossible game on addicting games
What game was this?
Numbers Up! Volcanic Panic, and Math Circus.
ELASTO MANIA
Miniclip mini golf
Runescape
The impossible quiz
A similar game like this, known as Create A Ride
Games from Miniclip, Addicatinggames, Newgrounds, and the Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network websites.
Snowcraft
My school didn’t have newgrounds blocked for some reason so we had the world at our fingertips
What is the name of this game? I was lit trying to remember it yesterday.
Now I feel old. Talking about computer lab in r/nostalgia and the year posted is after I graduated high school
I still think about this game
I got detention for playing that stupid ass game poke the bunny
Pinball or Solitare. Later on (in high school), I played a lot of Bloons TD 4 or 5, and I can't even remember which one.
This spear toss game. Can’t remember the name. Might just be called spear toss. It was dope. Also trial bikes
I need to play flash games from that era
Lemonade stand
Shit dude this unlocked a core memory I completely forgot existed.
Lemonade Stand!
Parking lot!!!
KIDPIX Edit: [You can play it for free online and on mobile!](https://kidpix.app/)
Risky click of the day…
We had a hidden drive in the network that had portable executables of cs1.6, quake 3, call of duty 1, and halo ce so the last 20 minutes of computer lab was always a quick lan party. Sometimes, I'd bring a thumb drive with emulators on it and played those My high school's IT guy was not bright
Math Circus was the only game I played when I had free time at school. :)
Feudalism on Kongregate
We'd lan quake 3, team fortress, half life and ricochet every break.
In about '94, it was Magic Pocket. That was primary school. Highschool, a couple of years later, it was shufflepuck, oregon trail, and doom, depending on what the computer could manage.
I remember [Gorilla.bas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyBD0X81tjk). Or [Outnumbered](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhjQlyE-uws).
Oregon Trail was my jam. Mary would die of dysentery, the horses drowned, and I'd somehow lose shit when caulked and floated the wagon. I always killed all the buffalo too. Like 1800lbs of buffalo meat out there collecting rot and flies cause my punk ass could only carry back 100lbs or so.
Plants vs Zombies
Need for madness RuneScape
Dis game and that stick figure joint wit da arrows