Skool Daze is an adventure developed by Microsphere Computer Services Ltd., released 1 December 1984 on Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
What Skool Daze is
Skool Daze is an adventure game developed by Microsphere Computer Services Ltd. and released in 1984. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Skool Daze sets you as Eric, a typical scamp of a schoolboy whose school report is due, and it is so bad that his parents can't be allowed to see it. This means retrieving it from the headmaster's safe, by obtaining every piece of the pass-code from the teachers, by hitting each of the shields with your catapult. All this has to be done around all the rigors of a typical school day. you must go to class when the bell goes, or else it's detention, and the other kids will often play around to block you. The game's Artificial Intelligence means that events continue to unfold around you in the other rooms and corridors.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Skool Daze holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Skool Daze launched on 1 December 1984, within three weeks of 1942, Knight Lore and Vs. Excitebike. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: 1942, Knight Lore, Vs. Excitebike.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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