Back to Skool
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| Developer(s) | David Reidy |
| Publisher(s) | Microsphere |
| Designer(s) | David Reidy |
| Platform(s) | ZX Spectrum |
| Release date | 1985 |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Media | Cassette |
| Input methods | Keyboard, Joystick |
Back to Skool is a computer game, sequel to the popular Skool Daze, created by David Reidy for the ZX Spectrum and released by Microsphere in 1985. The gameplay was very similar to - if more advanced than - Skool Daze, even incorporating most of the same characters, gameplay elements and graphics.
The game is ranked 19th in the Your Sinclair official top 100 Spectrum games of all time.
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[edit] Differences
The game differed from its prequel by an expansion of the playing area (including a neighbouring girl's school) and certain gameplay changes.
The girl's school incorporated its own new characters including nondescript girls with hockey sticks, Hayley (girlfriend of the main character Eric) and a headmistress. Only at break time and lunch times were the girls school allowed to mingle with the boys, in the central grassy playground, separated at other times by a high fence. The opening and closing of the fence at certain times of day was controlled by the school caretaker, a new character to the game. During the brief sessions when the girls and boys were allowed to mingle, or when Eric could sneak into the girls school (by one of two methods, either leaping the fence from the saddle of the nearby chained-up bike or by watering the flower pot beside the fence using the water pistol and jumping on the flower) he was able to kiss Hayley, who would then agree to do some of his lines for him. However, even obtaining access to the bike's combination was a difficult task and then followed the tricky manoevure of riding the bike away from a teacher's view, standing on the saddle while it was in motion and leaping the fence just before it struck.
Extra elements to the game included stink bombs, water pistols, a frog that could be released in the girl's school causing widespread panic and sherry (which could be squirted into cups and "intoxicate" teachers who were splashed by any which spilled when Eric shot his catapult at the cups with correct timing).
[edit] Trivia
- The wife of the author, Helen Reidy, was herself a school teacher during the time the program was written.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ LITTLE AND ROUND, WITH NO SHARP EDGES. Crash Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-07-06.
