Anyone else grow up playing games on their TI-83 calculator?

[Doomsday519]

When I was in middle school I was in GT math classes and by the time I got to 7th grade I had in my possession at least 4 games on my TI-83 calculator. Stripped down versions of Super Mario, Bomberman, Galaga, and Doom. The Galaga was called Phoenix but I forgot what the others were called. The funny thing is the way things worked in middle school I think I played those games more often than I played my Game Boy Advance(later SP) and I played on it a lot. We would play the games in class but too many kids wouldn't be sneaky enough and eventually we couldn't do it in class anymore cuz teachers were looking out more. Nevertheless it was a fun time and the way we all played them was transfers thru a link cable. One kid had the games and it just spread like a virus lol.

 

[qw90700]

Shit never knew a calculator could play a fucking game. Such technology was absent from me life lol. At most we would try to write words on a calculator lol.

But then it makes me question the impossibility of playing a game, or doing anything other than looking at the teacher or writing something as they force you to. I guess the education system in your country sucks hard so teachers really have no care what what kids do because from teacher's POV you can see what everyone does clearly. You can't hide shit lol. And if we had busted bringing a device into school for sure the principal would beat the shit out of us + clean the whole school for a month before and after classes. Shit doesn't worth it lol.

 

[Roy U. OmOm]

bruh

 

[Doomsday519]

Shit never knew a calculator could play a fucking game. Such technology was absent from me life lol. At most we would try to write words on a calculator lol.

But then it makes me question the impossibility of playing a game, or doing anything other than looking at the teacher or writing something as they force you to. I guess the education system in your country sucks hard so teachers really have no care what what kids do because from teacher's POV you can see what everyone does clearly. You can't hide shit lol. And if we had busted bringing a device into school for sure the principal would beat the shit out of us + clean the whole school for a month before and after classes. Shit doesn't worth it lol.

Yeah, this was the early 2000s in the US when we had this(I'm old). Those calculators were advanced as hell but also expensive. For our advanced math classes we were required to buy them so our parents had to spend the money and they were easily over $100USD.

The principal beating kids sounds like abuse to me. If I wanted to be beaten bloody for minor transgressions, I'd just look to my father. Now I'm getting abuse flashbacks...great.