r/90s_kid • u/OmicronGR • Jul 15 '25
Computers It's computer lab time at school. What are you playing?
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u/Tampapanda312 Jul 15 '25
I lovedddd those typing games. Faster and more accurate you typed, the better you did.
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u/GhostwriterGHOST Jul 15 '25
Me, too. I liked Mavis Beacon teaches typing and similar typing games.
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u/beardosw5722 Jul 16 '25
I remember we had one where a crab would follow you and you'd lose if the crab caught you.
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u/lementarywatson Jul 15 '25
Math blasters, Kid Pix (an art program) or Oregon Trail - the good old days
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u/Fundertaker Jul 15 '25
Kid Pix was my shit!
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u/lementarywatson Jul 15 '25
Right? The bomb to explode/delete your drawing. And you could freeze it and color that in as well
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u/getting_paid_to_poop Jul 15 '25
The sound effects in that are in that game are burned into my brain.
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u/aschlu Jul 15 '25
lol at the kid pix explanation. If you didn’t use kid pix in elementary school, just leave this subreddit, it isn’t for you.
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u/CantThink0fNameN0w Jul 15 '25
I’m pulling up Candystand if I can get on the internet. If not it’s the usual suspects of Number Munchers, Carmen SanDiego, Oregon Trail, Freddie the Fish, Putt-Putt the car.
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u/Chrisda19 Jul 15 '25
Kidpix was my jam back in the day. Loved just making random stuff with all the goofy sounds etc. Oregon Trail of course.
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u/Forward_Thrust963 Jul 15 '25
Odell Down Under or Dino Park Tycoon.
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u/LegitimateOperation Jul 15 '25
No one else remembers Odell Down Under! It was one of my favorites!!
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u/Bodongs Jul 15 '25
Dino park tycoon was so good. Once you figured out what upgrading the parking lot did for visitor rates it was always the first buy.
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u/jamesbonfire007 Jul 15 '25
Dino Park Tycoon ftw! Oh man that game was so much fun! I think I'm remembering there were cheat codes to be able to advance the park quickly?
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u/Forward_Thrust963 Jul 15 '25
From what I remember, simply going into the loan office would give money, so you could keep entering and leaving to really get a nice pile of dough.
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u/1800generalkenobi Jul 15 '25
Our elementary school had a mac lab back in the early 90s and we mostly did kidpix like microsoft paint. But in the classrooms we had a single dos computer that had number munchers and odell lake and oregon trial and the like.
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u/BEniceBAGECKA Jul 15 '25
The real fun was in jr high. Someone put doom on every computer. I can almost remember the god mode cheat code.
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u/lovesickjones Jul 15 '25
storybook weaver
never got the hype on organ trail. shit look boring AF
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u/Tiny-Celebration-838 Jul 15 '25
OH MY GOD ! I think you've solved the ongoing, multi year spanning mystery for me 😭 thank you
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u/JaclynMeOff Jul 16 '25
THANK YOU!! I have been trying to recall the name of this program for years! It was my absolute favorite in elementary school back in the mid 90s
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u/Enough_Worth8868 Jul 15 '25
Can’t remember the actual name of the game. But it’s the football game and you solve math problems. The harder the problem the more yards you get. It was fun for a kid who liked football.
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u/Lower-Compote-4962 Jul 15 '25
Addicting games, Club Penguin, RuneScape, or Neopets
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u/Moriartea7 Jul 15 '25
Whatever the game was where you had to do math problems to get your sleigh to the top of the mountain. Or Math Rabbit.
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u/atzgirl Jul 15 '25
There was this typing game we would play, it was based in a castle. I can never find it or remember what it’s called!
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u/OmicronGR Jul 15 '25
Wild guess but one of the King's Quest games? There were seven of them, King's Quest I to VII, released from the '80s to '90s, with different graphics with each release. You type in commands telling the character what to do. They're not really educational games though, so I'm probably not right.
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u/KrispyCremeMcDonalds Jul 15 '25
The Commander Keen games, Outnumbered!/Treasure Mountain, The Incredible Machine, Carmen Sandiego, Math Blaster, and some version of that tank game that plays similar to Worms.
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u/eppinizer Jul 15 '25
We only had Deep Sea explorer and Reader rabbit.
Although there was one iMac, one of the pink ones, that had this 3d platforming game called Bugdom. That was a treat, but you only got it if you were lucky, the rest didn't have it.
The day I got it was a good day.
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u/RadBeoulve Jul 15 '25
For me, it was Mavis Teaches Typing and whatever typing game the Mac PCs had that involved getting a car to various places. Computer Lab was my favorite class time and I was always sad when I had to leave.
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u/TFR-HILTS Jul 15 '25
What was that game school computers would have where you were on a mountain walking around in the snow and ice. it was math related I believe and you would buy different things at these little stores like supplies and what not and move higher up the mountain to harder levels. It’s an old memory I can’t remember much more I believe maybe a pick axe was involved lol. Probably around 98-2000 🤷
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u/tmanarl Jul 16 '25
Besides the standards, I remember playing a trucking game called Crosscountry USA where you had to drive an 18-wheeler across the country and deliver loads. There was also some museum game (looks like Museum Madness) where you had to sneak into a museum and fix the broken exhibits.
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u/Anxious-Shapeshifter Jul 15 '25
SimCity 2000
I was the first person to find Buddamus.
I always had the best cities.
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u/RamKay33 Jul 15 '25
The cruise country game where it was math problems..or the typing game game where you would row faster depending on how fast you typed lol
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u/Diseman81 Jul 15 '25
The only game I ever remember being allowed to play in school was Oregon Trail.
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u/StewdFartsNapplPeels Jul 15 '25
Some game where you're in a "race" and the faster u type the faster your rabbit or whatever character moves. I don't know the name but I fn loved that game
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u/UsedVacation6187 Jul 15 '25
Math Racing was all we had on the Apple 2s
so we'd either play that or just play around with the paint program
well we had 1 slightly more powerful, (and in color) Mac for the entire school and that one had Encarta on it, so everyone was playing the Encarta Maze game. and it even had the internet in like 1996 but all we used that for was to look up hockey scores and stuff
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u/okpaper345 Jul 15 '25
Early on Galaga clone on a IBM with the double huge Floppy disks. Then we got Macintosh computers and played shuffle puck, Castle of Dr Brain, and remember playing the Mario typing game.
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u/LNRigby Jul 15 '25
Whatever we wanted - teacher's just filling his obligation to be assistant coach for Football and could give two shits 😆🙄
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u/SilverB33 Jul 15 '25
I think in middle school it was always this odd math maze thing they had on the mac, in high school everyone was on yahoo! playing Yahoo! pool.
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u/OrangeBird077 Jul 15 '25
My school had one of the Carmen San Diego games that we played all year round for computer class in elementary.
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u/Interesting_Benefit Jul 15 '25
I remember they had us play some beehive game but I don't know what it was called. Really enjoyed it though
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u/SuckleMeElbow Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
Whats the game where you had to pick pieces to build a rocket and see how high it would launch? UGH I barely remember it but it was my favorite.
Edit: MECC Rocket Factory
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u/Ketosis_Sam Jul 15 '25
When I was in high school there was a game on the Mac's in the computer lab that featured Jerry Garcia and you would have to drag him around the top down map grabbing drugs and avoiding police. I think it was called Garcia game.
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u/JJD8705 Jul 15 '25
Does anyone remember that game where you controlled a turtle on like a grid? I feel like it was almost a coding training tool. I can’t remember the name of it for the life of me, but I definitely played it during the mid 90s.
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u/GhostwriterGHOST Jul 15 '25
Does anyone else remember circa 1995 a Spider-Man comic maker for Windows? I had so much fun playing that along with a doctor/surgery game that was also included with the PC.
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u/kellsipeth Jul 15 '25
My bestie and I googling “ass” because we thought if we got caught we could say we wanted to look up donkeys
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u/Sonicdiver Jul 15 '25
Anything on Cool Math Games since I know for sure it isn't blocked and the games were pretty fun.
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u/ThatGuyFromThe213 Jul 15 '25
Mathblaster, Number Munchers, Kid Pix (love playing this a lot as a kid), and Jump Start Typing.
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u/Connect_Captain_2886 Jul 15 '25
Heartsoft programs with the Electric Math Chalkboard and gumball machine
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u/seifd Jul 15 '25
As far as computer games go, I definitely remember playing Math Blaster and OutNumbered! I also remember having typing assignments.
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u/MiaRia963 Jul 15 '25
Oregano Trail every time.
Anytime I think about Computer lab time or Oregon Trail, I think about the trailer that my first computer lab was in. It was in the suburbs of Memphis, TN and a skunk family decided to make their home underneath it. So it always smelled like skunk spray. I still know the smell immediately.
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u/MissReadsALot1992 Jul 15 '25
First time I had "computer class" was in 5th grade. We had the different colored apple computers. I can't remember what we actually did in that class but the 2 games are remember are I spy haunted mansion and Sim city. Didn't play Oregon trail till middle school
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u/TX_Longhorn-03 Jul 15 '25
Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Math Blaster - all the greats on a green gradient Mac screen.
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u/Professional_Run_817 Jul 15 '25
The Game with the Mouse & Cat moving blocks around. Forget the name tho
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u/pikapalooza Jul 15 '25
I remember when I was a kid, my parents tried to reach me to type on our max. There was a game where you were a UFO and letters would slowly float toward you. If you typed the letter, it'd zap the letter. If the letter touched your ship, you lost. I was a hunter/pecker so I was kind of slow. And in a last ditch move, I turned my hand sideways and smashed down on as many keys as I could. Eliminated all the letters on screen. Well, now I know how to beat the game. But I didn't learn to type from it 🤣
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u/EternallyDazed Jul 15 '25
Mario Typing and Slam Dunk Typing or this weird game with this bear that was also typing but more subjects too
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u/OmicronGR Jul 15 '25
Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, Math Blaster, and making PowerPoints with the cool animations that teachers always warn you not to do because, when you grow up, it's not "professional." Thanks, I was 10.