I remember students sharing Excel games back in the day (when webgame sites were blocked at school). There were simple snake games and also fancier ones like a pop-up shooting gallery.
Eventually they discovered that they could download a Flash game as a SWF, bringing their collections in on flash drives and trading them in the lab.
My school used to block opening windows file explorer as a way of preventing installation of software. We used to install games by opening explorer through help.
I was definitely one of those students in high school.
To this day, there's a flash game I downloaded from some random site (Japanese/Chinese/Korean, I honestly don't remember) that was sort of like a javelin toss contest, only instead it involved seeing how far you could launch a male student after hitting him with a bike. There were various anime helper summons that could give him an additional push if his momentum was starting to run out. I put an insane amount of time into that game back in the day, but since it was in a foreign language I didn't know the title and could never track it down. Plus whatever flash-drive/laptop I had it saved onto from 2006 has long since bit the dust.
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[ 10.4 ms ] story [ 46.1 ms ] threadEventually they discovered that they could download a Flash game as a SWF, bringing their collections in on flash drives and trading them in the lab.
To this day, there's a flash game I downloaded from some random site (Japanese/Chinese/Korean, I honestly don't remember) that was sort of like a javelin toss contest, only instead it involved seeing how far you could launch a male student after hitting him with a bike. There were various anime helper summons that could give him an additional push if his momentum was starting to run out. I put an insane amount of time into that game back in the day, but since it was in a foreign language I didn't know the title and could never track it down. Plus whatever flash-drive/laptop I had it saved onto from 2006 has long since bit the dust.
I had a sneaking suspicion that if I had the opportunity to work it into an on-topic HN comment, someone would remember. :D
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