ZX Spectrum Skool Daze

We play Skool Daze on the ZX Spectrum in full academic regalia.
#zxspectrum #retrocomputers #retrogaming
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Skool Daze
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skool_Daze
Harlequin ZX Spectrum
www.bytedelight.com/

[@BinnisRetro]

I don’t think anyone of my friends (when we were 6-10 years old roughly) ever knew what the official point of this game and no one cared. It was just fun walking around school, writing dirty words on the chalkboard and being a general nuisance. Also for people wiith doctorates I must say you are being very silly. …and I love it! Keep on doing it 👏

[@fractalMD]

How was I not worrying dirty words on the chalk board?!!??? I need to figure this out immediately.

[@philsmith3261]

Glad you are experiencing the Spectrum on the other side of the pond. The Specci has a lot of weird and wonderful games. They were smoking some strong stuff when they made some of these classics!

[@fractalMD]

So strong!

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Hooray for Doctors Taylor and Amy! I've only ever played the sequel... which adds a bicycle and a girls' school as well!

[@fractalMD]

Oh, nice. I want to try that one for sure.

[@darrenwilson99]

@@fractalMD Back to Skool is the name

[@fractalMD]

@@darrenwilson99 That makes perfect sense.

[@stewsretroreviews]

A classic early zx spectrum game which I played when I was a kid. Attend the classes and get all the shields, it has a lot of keys for different things. S for sit and stand lol.

[@fractalMD]

Yeah. That S thing is some clutch knowledge fo sho.

[@malmes999]

Was one of my favourite games on the speccy in the 80's spent hours getting wrong :-P

[@fractalMD]

I think I could do things wrong for decades.

[@TheRasteri]

I remember my mum (a teacher) being irrationally angry at the title of this game.

[@fractalMD]

Hahaha! Your poor mom!

[@Mawds69]

OMG Flashbacks. I played this as a kid.

[@fractalMD]

:)

[@CanadianRetroThings]

I have never figured out this game, even after reading the instructions. I never would have graduated if school was as hard as this game!

[@fractalMD]

Same!

[@daveontoast]

I loved Skool Daze. Running about making mischief. Lol

[@fractalMD]

And now I know you can write on the chalk board.

[@wayneduckett1961]

Used to love that game. Also, Back to Skopje. Used to crack in to it and change the names to the characters with my schools teachers, friends and girlfriend! Lol

[@fractalMD]

Oh that is too funny

[@wayneduckett1961]

@@fractalMD I have even downloaded the app on my iPhone lol

[@wimwiddershins]

I had to dig out my mortar board to watch this properly (just a lowly bachelor's degree here). :P

[@fractalMD]

Please say you wore it for real. I love it.

[@geekwithsocialskills]

Skool Daze looks like a pretty fun ZX Spectrum game.

[@fractalMD]

Fun even if you have nfc what you are doing!

[@geekwithsocialskills]

@@fractalMD PITA NFC LOL!

[@MQsto]

I played Skool Daze sooo much on my C64, never really knowing the real goal of the game. But I remember the joy when I finally realized it is possible to shoot a teacher under a shield so they drop down and sit on the floor, then SHOOT AGAIN to deflect the catapult stone from their head up to the shield. Li'l me felt like a true genius :-)

[@fractalMD]

There is no way id ever figure that out.

[@MQsto]

@@fractalMD Perks of childhood, infinite time and energy to just try everything possible over and over again because the alternative was chores or homework or something boring like that.

[@fractalMD]

@@MQsto amen to that

[@shoom5198]

This is one of the first games remember. This and commando.

[@fractalMD]

But are the memories good? :)

[@shoom5198]

Yes, memories i cherish.

[@fractalMD]

@@shoom5198 so wonderful

[@geoffneil5073]

I really want to say that you should watch my channel before you play any more Speccy games. However I just love the way you dive straight into them like a kid in the 80s that's got a pirate copy of the game with no manual and has to figure out all the keys. It brought back so many memories :).

[@fractalMD]

Yeah, lol. I honestly think if we read the whole manual and prepared it would be way less entertaining! We are less of a how to and more of a horrible warning.

[@geoffneil5073]

@@fractalMD I like how you also go to all the classes and act good. That's the way to play Skool Daze if you want to complete the game. Most people just run around causing havoc.

[@fractalMD]

@@geoffneil5073 we tried, at least!

[@geoffneil5073]

@@fractalMD It is a great video and please try more spectrum games in the future :).

[@fractalMD]

@@geoffneil5073 We do love our Lil Speccy!

[@orignal29]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who could never figure out this game! (C64)

[@fractalMD]

Not even close.

[@Inaflap]

Skool Daze must be one of the earliest sandbox style titles. It's not one of my favourites, but it often seems to feature in top 10 lists of Speccy games. I did play it a little back in the day... my friend brought a backup tape to my house one Sunday. He showed me how to play it. You can only hit a few shields from the stairs. Some of them you need to rebound off the head of a teacher. Knock down a teacher when he is walking away, but just under a shield. A second shot from the catapult will be deflected off his head, and up to the shield. It is tricky. Other shields are reached by hitting a boy, then standing on top of him and jumping up. Most uncomfortable. You have to get all the shields flashing. Then you hit all the teachers... each will reveal a letter. That history teacher asks for his age. Note down the name of the battle the kid says. At a later point, the date of the battle will be revealed. You then need to write that on the board. Can't remember the key for writing. That teacher will then reveal his letter. Oh.. you have to turn all the shields off by hitting them using the same methods. Meanwhile you can score points by getting other kids blamed when you fire your catapult. Always make sure the teacher can't see, and that there is a group of other kids. Hit the teacher from behind, then dart back in the crowd. When in class you can hit the teacher, but make sure you sit at the back, so someone else gets blamed. Their lines make points for you. I find it all a bit convoluted, but I appreciate it is a clever design for such an early game.

[@fractalMD]

A little? You are like an expert!

[@xenosaga1348]

Nice outfits.

[@fractalMD]

😎

[@JimmyBoogaloo]

Very silly and amusing. Sub'd :o)

[@fractalMD]

Thanks!!!

[@TaylorAmyShow]

Welcome!

[@ByteDelight]

Hey Amy, hey Taylor! It's about time to show off your closets - we want to know facts! ;) But however big or small they might be, it's magnificent how you pull off these outfits whaha!

[@fractalMD]

ANY excuse to wear regalia!

[@FrancisMaxino]

I love this game, played it over anf over again but never gquite survived without getting too many lines to continue, knock over the teachers with your slingshot from behind and they don't think you did it and give lines to the other nearest boy.

[@fractalMD]

I mean, this game is pure bananas.

[@TheIPGCorporations]

Didn't know Americans had ZX Spectrums in the 1980s.

[@TaylorAmyShow]

We didn't. We built it from a Harlequin kit.

[@joelavcoco]

There was the Timex/Sinclair 2068. It's {mostly} Spectrum 48 compatible. It has an AY sound chip like the Spectrum 128, but mapped to a different address, and therefore incompatible with the Speccy's AY sound, unless the code is modified. It also has a different BASIC ROM, which apparently makes even machine language programs incompatible. There was a Spectrum compatibility cartridge available way back when -- but few Spectrum games made their way over the pond anyway. I've burned the Sinclair BASIC into an EPROM and just replaced the mask ROM in my recently acquired 2068 with it for Spectrum compatibility. The 2068 did not sell well, even compared to the Timex/Sinclair 1000.

[@Saskue78]

A bizarre game never played this one.

[@fractalMD]

It's inexplicable.

[@Saskue78]

@@fractalMD True. Lol

[@stacielundgren4499]

This is EXACTLY the kind of shite I would expect from you two!😄

[@fractalMD]

You know it!!!!

[@joelavcoco]

No dark sarcasm in the classroom...

[@fractalMD]

Wouldn't dream of it!

[@thomasrotweiler]

I had a spectrum. I'm glad I never tried to play this game. Looks like you need a degree to play it. Two preferably.

[@fractalMD]

Clearly even that is not enough!!

[@CurtisBoyle]

Ah... the dulcet tones of Spectrum games! The Amigos have covered this game twice (once on their Spectrum show a few years back, and recently the Atari 8 bit version), so at least I was a little familiar with it. But they didn't go all in on "in character". Like a lot of the UK based games in the 1980's, it was *hard* (like Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, etc.). And you do need to read instructions to figure out what all you have to do (as you discovered). Now, a question for you both: Obviously school is a little different in the UK than it is in the USA (or Canada for that matter)... given that, how much did it remind you two of being in school? :)

[@TaylorAmyShow]

Little to none.

[@fractalMD]

Zero!

[@derekchristenson5711]

So, as far as I can tell, the main point of this game is "create awful noises to harm the player's hearing", then apparently die(?) from something? LOL, those Brits! ;-) Also, assuming that you were both serious about being PhD's, how cool! Also, how hilarious and fun that you apparently went out in public in your regalia just to do so, apropos of nothing! LOL

[@cocoliving7157]

Pegging my weirdometer.

[@fractalMD]

Great, right?

[@cocoliving7157]

@@fractalMD Absolutely!

[@beechjames]

Subscribed - count me in!

[@TaylorAmyShow]

Welcome!

[@fractalMD]

Counted!

[@Alibm80]

😂😂😂😂

[@fractalMD]

Those robes are hot!

[@EDU4519Computing1]

Which "spectrum" are they using please?

[@fractalMD]

We talk about it in the Harlequin ZX Spectrum video.

[@gmf121266]

1513......The Battle of Flodden....between England and Scotland...England won and King James IV of Scotland was killed....Sorry...History geek here.

[@fractalMD]

I'm like, Battle of Hastings or nothing.

[@syrus3k]

You think this is fun try 'how to be a complete bastard'.. That's next level

[@fractalMD]

I can completely see the allure.