Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 14:30:59 GMT
I went to elementary school in the 90s and middle school around 2004. I'm Currently 32 years old. In the 6th grade going on 7th I remember this point and click pc game for windows that was installed on our classroom computers we played all the time. It also had a video with it that my teacher would play before we played it. The video was on VHS and featured imagery and scenes of walking over train tracks, a small town, abandoned school, a shadowy figure in a black coat and I believe a group of kids or teens investigating the school. The video featured a song that I distinctly remember the lyrics Red Right Hand featured heavily during it. For the longest time I could not remember anything else about the song, the name of the video, or the name of the game. it wasn't until a few years ago when talking to a friend of mine about it that he pointed me in the direction of the song of the same name Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. By god that was the song. As soon as I listened too it, it was like unearthing a dusty memory from deep in my subconscious. I am 100 percent certain that is the song they used in the video. I did research into the song and have been unable to find any mention of it ever being used in promo material, educational material, licensed off, covered, featured in a companion live action VHS for a horror themed edutainment PC game. The song also came out in 1994 so it fits the time line. I have never heard of this band, the song, or anything else related too it in my entire life outside that video from the game.
As for the game its self, it featured prerendered graphics like the kind you would see in mist but not quite as realistic. It took place inside an abandoned school in a first person perspective. It was a point and click style of game where you could click and interact with objects, lockers, doors, and solve math problems to unlock rooms and progress. Sometimes objects would leap at you with spooky eyes and mouths such as rulers, footballs, and other things you'd find around a school. When they would jump at you they would block your path having you solve problems to get by. The math problems stand out to me more than other subjects but there were classrooms labeled science, literature and so on. There was also a gymnasium, a weight room, nurses office and other facilities found in a school you could go into. It did feature a CG intro of sorts but as to the subject matter I can't say.
If any of this sounds familiar please let me know. I have been looking for any information, screenshots, hell even just a title of this game for the better part of 10 years. Any help would be very much appreciated.
EDIT 1 - Was talking to my friend from way back when and he too remembers the game as well as the video with the red right hand song. He also mentioned some details I had forgotten. He said he believed the end of the game was getting to an attic like area in the school and the questions got harder to answer at that point. I also just remembered there were signs above the doors to the rooms in the hall way with the grades like k-1 2nd 3rd and so on for the different difficulty of questions. Also I think maybe it might of only been a math game. I'm not 100 percent on that but I seem to only recall doing math problems in it.
As for the game its self, it featured prerendered graphics like the kind you would see in mist but not quite as realistic. It took place inside an abandoned school in a first person perspective. It was a point and click style of game where you could click and interact with objects, lockers, doors, and solve math problems to unlock rooms and progress. Sometimes objects would leap at you with spooky eyes and mouths such as rulers, footballs, and other things you'd find around a school. When they would jump at you they would block your path having you solve problems to get by. The math problems stand out to me more than other subjects but there were classrooms labeled science, literature and so on. There was also a gymnasium, a weight room, nurses office and other facilities found in a school you could go into. It did feature a CG intro of sorts but as to the subject matter I can't say.
If any of this sounds familiar please let me know. I have been looking for any information, screenshots, hell even just a title of this game for the better part of 10 years. Any help would be very much appreciated.
EDIT 1 - Was talking to my friend from way back when and he too remembers the game as well as the video with the red right hand song. He also mentioned some details I had forgotten. He said he believed the end of the game was getting to an attic like area in the school and the questions got harder to answer at that point. I also just remembered there were signs above the doors to the rooms in the hall way with the grades like k-1 2nd 3rd and so on for the different difficulty of questions. Also I think maybe it might of only been a math game. I'm not 100 percent on that but I seem to only recall doing math problems in it.
