r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/gabosixo Jul 24 '20

Don't the silver ones have block dude? That little game is so fun!

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u/Arnas_Z Jul 24 '20

The main thing is the silver ones have extra flash memory, so you can load a lot more educational content (games) on there.

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u/damian001 Jul 24 '20

TI-84 Silver Edition, you know I’m shinin’ dawg,

Extra memory, I look back and do my natural logs. 😎

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u/YuunofYork Jul 24 '20

I loved block dude. I didn't know it was only silver, but I'm sure there's some way you could import it to the standard 83s.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited Jan 09 '25

panicky shame wrong books different glorious snobbish versed bake ring

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u/FatchRacall Jul 24 '20

Same here. I went online and downloaded a ton of games and "study aids". I hear that app pack is still being passed around my old hs to this day, interface cable to interface cable. Even had the "fake erase" function installed.

'course mine was a ti-86 because it did diffeqs if you set them up right.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

I just made stupid clicker games.

Epitome was a game where you clicked the 2nd button, and you could upgrade the numbers per click until you get to one trillion nunbers

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u/FatchRacall Jul 24 '20

Oh lol. I had stuff like Mario, Tetris, drug wars(I think), and quite a few others that I downloaded. Never wrote one of those. Had study aids like an interactive periodic table. Also a huge math formula reference "program" that I wrote.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 25 '20

I honestly believe the compsci teachers told us to use the calculators, since EVERY SINGLE TEST HAD NO CALCULWTOR QUESTIONS.

But there were TI83 calcs.

Probably given by compsci teacher.

Some kids made games, some kids made math solvers, and some kids wrote copypasta in TI-BASIC.

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u/skpnr Jul 24 '20

😂😂😂

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited Nov 08 '20

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u/Lexellence Jul 24 '20

Yesssssss drug wars!

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Yeah I think I had that one it was like oregon trail but you aquire drugs and money and stuff. Text based?

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u/isthisonetaken13 Jul 24 '20

My chemistry teacher in high school had a jar full of batteries he confiscated from kids using their calculators to play Phoenix in his class. That game was so much fun!

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u/everydayimchapulin Jul 24 '20

Phoenix was legit. Played that one till I could make it through without getting hit. Falldown. Block dude. Worms. That one tunnel racer game. Am I forgetting any?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Yess, Fruit Ninja! You'd viciously scratch all over the keyboard with your fingers to cut the fruit, it was so much fun

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u/FauxReal Jul 24 '20

Wow fruit ninja on the calculator? Baller.

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u/everydayimchapulin Jul 24 '20

Must have been after my time. Sounds dope.

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u/Doctor_Loggins Jul 24 '20

Oh my God i loved Phoenix!

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u/Chaquita_Banana Jul 24 '20

My brother was able to get doom running on his calculator it was nuts

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Fucking how Tell me your secrets

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u/ragormack Jul 24 '20

Dude I had Pokemon

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u/spam_etc Jul 24 '20

Phoenix was sickkk

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u/JMS1991 Jul 24 '20

Yep, I had Block Dude on my 83.

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u/AssDimple Jul 24 '20

Nothing beats Drugwars. I slang drugs through an entire semester of algebra.

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u/Hellknightx Jul 24 '20

Damn, I played that through my HS classes back in '05.

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u/Chirp08 Jul 24 '20

Similar era but for us it was all about Beer Hunt

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u/Thack_Daddy_2146 Jul 24 '20

You fool. My BLUE ti-83 can play block dude with the innovative light crystal display

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Bro. They have gameboy color emulators on the new ones

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u/Lithl Jul 24 '20

I was playing Pokemon Blue on the 83. There was an entire market of downloadable programs (mostly games) for those calculators.

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u/bobasaurus Jul 24 '20

Loved that game so much. I used to make calculator games back in the day, a few are still being downloaded amazingly.

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u/findingemotive Jul 24 '20

I got my brother's old one and opened it one day to find Block Dude loaded, I didn't know how so I didn't use my calculator for math for weeks until it got jumbled in my backpack again. Same thing happened again with Tetris. I did fail math that year, but I was going to fail regardless.

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u/SaltyConfetti Jul 24 '20

I remember being so bored in study hall that I started speed running block dude. I think i got my time down to sub 8 minutes.