Post by fieldtrapreplica on Feb 9, 2025 0:36:55 GMT
Around 2000-2001 I played an edutainment game in my "Exploratories" block at my middle school Ferryway in Malden, MA. Exploratories allowed Ferryway's student to try a mix of Tech and Home Economics classes on a rotating schedule that offered Computer & Typing Labs, Tech Ed and Home Ec/Cooking. I mention the school and location because in my efforts to track this down I made posts on r/tipofmyrtongue and r/TOMJ or Tip of My Joystick and a few fellow redditors remembered this game and apparently went to the same school and also tried to track this elusive game down themselves. The title of "Field Trap" came to mind in my initial search because it was a play on Field Trip due to the plot and gameplay which involves a class going to a museum with a high-quality security system that gets hacked and locks down the entire museum trapping the students inside. Your character is tasked to crack the security system and unlock the front doors by solving several mini-games either centered around solving History-related questions (because they were locked in a museum centered around Ancient History) or diving into the security's mainframe. The mainframe sections involved mini-games like making your character hop on to tiles on an electrically-charged floor that corresponded to the correct answer of a question on-screen, linking broken wires together without crossing the wires or making them touch each other (like the mobile game Flow Free), and others (This came to mind just now but there may have been a mini-game where you have to avoid laser tripwires otherwise the security boots you back out of the entire mainframe). The mainframe sections to my better knowledge may have needed to be completed one after the other like a gauntlet where if you failed one part your character got ejected from the mainframe and had to start all over adding tension and importance to solving all the problems as fast & efficient as the student could. The game ran on either Windows 95, 98, 2000 Professional or XP, the wide range of OSs comparing to the years I spent at Ferryway before moving on to MHS and the start of my adventure of trying to find this stubborn memory of a game which I have been searching for most of my life from when I was a teen at MHS to now. Pouring through Abandonware sites and archive.org many, many times and coming up empty has led me to here, where hopefully my search comes to an end with the title in my (digital) hands. Here's hoping I come out the other side of this long journey with plenty of fruit bared!
