I don’t have homework
What happened to paper football? And what was the name of the game that required three pennies? Neither one is subject to blocks.
We called it soccer, iirc.
Hadn’t thought about that one in forever.
Thanks. Both that game and paper football are unaffected by internet blocks.
You’re assuming they have a computer at home, and not just the one the school gave them
Or a phone, or a console, or something else, yes, I am assuming that. They are free to correct me if I am mistaken.
I played a lot of Hearts in high school. The teachers didn’t ban playing cards. For some reason we had a lot of free time at the end of classes.
I got most of my education outside of school. Including learning how to write my own games.
If they don’t have any sort of computer at home, how are they posting here if:
You can see the envelope next to the time stamp on their post. It was emailed in.
Not the OP, unless it doesn’t show up there.
Simply install Scorched Earth from floppy disk on one of the school computers while the teacher isn’t looking, then play that with your friends at break.
Worked like a charm in my day.
I was guessing it hadn’t been blocked yet. Idk.
Floppy disks actually existed in your day (and mine).
These days, even flash drives are mostly obsolete. Almost nothing is on hard media anymore.
That could work. But, I think you would need a thumb drive. I’m not sure where the OP would find a floppy disk, or a computer with a floppy drive.
I feel fantastically old now.
ETA
Blast! Ninja’d!
Want old? The OP can go find some issues of COMPUTE!'s Gazette and type in the program listings from the end of the magazine into their Commodore 64. There were plenty of games. Ain’t no way to block that.
I still have my Commodore 64. I no longer have any of the early computer books that were just pages of Basic to type in. Heck, I still have my Dad’s North Star Horizon. It is roughly as old as I am. It was the first computer I ever played games on. Dad had a copy of Adventure. We beat it together after much hard work.
Get off my lawn! Now, if you’ll excuse me I need to have my prostate examined and look into a reverse mortgage.
I made a game that fits entirely within the URL. I call it Squirrelley Square. Press spacebar to jump. No site needed, so it can’t be blocked. Just paste this text directly into your URL bar:
data:text/html;base64,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
We played craps in the boys’ room at high school. No idea if the teachers would have banned dice, but they probably would have if they had known.
Seems like gambling (or gambling-adjacent) games might be a bit more problematic. Hearts at least requires a little strategy. I guess dice games can be useful to teach statistics.
I doodled. I got pretty good at drawing.
I also took elaborate multi-colored notes of the lectures in high school. That was sort of a game, too. At any rate, it helped me get through the school day.