History VideoGame / SkoolDaze

''Skool Daze'' is a 1984 computer game released by Microsphere for the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum and UsefulNotes/Commodore64. The game places you in control of Eric, a schoolboy who must steal his report card from the school safe to prevent his expulsion. He must also avoid getting into trouble with the staff, as well as avoiding the fist of the school bully Angelface, the catapult of the tearaway Boy Wander, and getting tattled on by the InsufferableGenius Einstein (no, not [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein that one]]). Get caught in your misdeeds and you'll be [[WritingLines given lines]] as punishment; rack up 10,000 lines, and it's game over.

With a distinctly [[WidgetSeries British sensibility]], an anarchic sense of humour, and the freedom to ignore the main quest and just mess around, ''Skool Daze'' is fondly remembered mostly by British gamers of a certain age.

* TruthInTelevision: Ostensibly the mechanic whereby the nearest pupil is blamed for any misdeed regardless of their actual guilt was informed by the programmers own experiences at school.

A sequel, ''VideoGame/BackToSkool'', was released the following year. A FanRemake named ''Klass of '99'' was released for PC in, as you might expect, 1999, with a GameBoyAdvance homebrew port released a few years later. ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' owes it [[SpiritualSuccessor quite a debt.]]
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''Skool Daze'' is a 1984 computer game released by Microsphere for the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum and UsefulNotes/Commodore64. The game places you in control of Eric, a schoolboy who must steal his report card from the school safe to prevent his expulsion. He must also avoid getting into trouble with the staff, as well as avoiding the fist of the school bully Angelface, the catapult of the tearaway Boy Wander, and getting tattled on by the InsufferableGenius Einstein (no, not [[AlbertEinstein that one]]). Get caught in your misdeeds and you'll be [[WritingLines given lines]] as punishment; rack up 10,000 lines, and it's game over.

''Skool Daze'' is a 1984 computer game released by Microsphere for the ZXSpectrum and Commodore64. The game places you in control of Eric, a schoolboy who must steal his report card from the school safe to prevent his expulsion. He must also avoid getting into trouble with the staff, as well as avoiding the fist of the school bully Angelface, the catapult of the tearaway Boy Wander, and getting tattled on by the InsufferableGenius Einstein (no, not [[AlbertEinstein that one]]). Get caught in your misdeeds and you'll be [[WritingLines given lines]] as punishment; rack up 10,000 lines, and it's game over.

* TheInformant: Einstein will frequently tell the teachers if another student has been up to no good. He will also sometimes blatantly ''lie'' and tell the teacher that Eric hit him even if you haven't so much as looked the wrong way at him. Sometimes backfires and Einstein himself is given lines either instead or as well as the person he's telling on.

* TheInformant: Einstein will frequently tell the teachers if another student has been up to no good. Sometimes backfires and Einstein himself is given lines.

* GeniusBonus: Getting Mr. Creak's number requires you to know the year a randomly-selected historical battle took place. The dates of all the battles the game selects from can be found out in-game if one is patient enough, simply by listening to the answers in history class, but you can avoid that lengthy process entirely if you already know the answer yourself.

* MostAnnoyingSound: The punishment sound when a teacher gives out lines is particularly annoying, being a shrill two-tone buzz. If you're caught playing truant and get chased back to class by the teacher, you'll be hearing it every few seconds until you make it back to the classroom.

* TeachersPet: Einstein. He begins every answer with "Please sir, [[GeorgeWashington I cannot tell a lie...]]"

A sequel, ''VideoGame/BackToSkool'', was released the following year. A FanRemake named ''Klass of '99'' was released for PC in, as you might expect, 1999, with a GameBoyAdvance homebrew port released a few years later.

* CorporalPunishment: Implied with Mr. Wacker, in both his name and how he always carries a cane. Never actually depicted in the game though.

* SadistTeacher: Mr. Wacker, the headmaster. More of an implied example as he perpetually wields a cane, but never actually uses it in the game, simply giving out lines like the other staff (and expelling Eric at game over).

A FanRemake named ''Klass of '99'' was released for PC in, as you might expect, 1999, with a GameBoyAdvance homebrew port released a few years later.

* NonStandardGameOver: Get touched by Angelface when he has mumps and you will be pursued by the headmaster who will send you home instantly.

* TheBully: Angelface.

* OneGenderSchool: The game us set in an all-boys school. The sequel adds an all-girls school in a separate building.

A [[FanRemake]] named ''Klass of '99'' was released for PC, as you might expect, in 1999, with a GameBoyAdvance homebrew port released a few years later.

* GeniusBonus: Getting Mr. Wacker's number requires you to know the year a randomly-selected historical battle took place. The dates of all the battles the game selects from can be found out in-game if one is patient enough, simply by listening to the answers in history class, but you can avoid that lengthy process entirely if you already know the answer yourself.

* OneGenderSchool: The gane us set in an all-boys school. The sequel adds an all-girls school in a separate building.

* TheBully: Angelface.