The first time I brought an elctronic game to school...

[Mianrtcv]

I remember bringing my Mattel Football I and causing quite a stir. Literally fights were breaking out at lunch, before/after school etc. etc. I also remember the game and watches coming in. Head to head football also created more than a few beefs among the schoolyard. What with all the tug of wars and wrestling with the opponent.

My friends and I kind of coordinated so we all asked our parents for different games so we could get to play alll the different ones. The wristwatches thing got ugly. I clearly remember people receiving WICKED indian sunburns for not spreading the wealth on that one. I also remember the guys who were so hooked they brought heat on us and got them confiscated because they would try to play in class. Me, I never got mine confiscated. Banged up, yes. Stolen, thank god no.

What was (if there were any) the first electronic game that went to school with you?

Did you ever suffer a confiscation?

Did a Scut Farkus ever steal your goods?

[boatofcar]

I didn't bring an electronic game to school (that I recall) until 7th grade, when I made a friend that I kept all through school through Final Fantasy Legend II for Game Boy. We started talking about it one day in pre-algebra class and I brought it in so he could check out where I was in the game. Thanks for helping me bring back that great memory :)

[Mianrtcv]

In a round about way what brouth this to mind for me was an article posted about a young gamer that got a minor zap from lightning while playing his PS2. He was playing and ZAP. He was o.k., then I remembered how my firends mom used to forbid us from any use of electronics during rainy days (notice I said rainy, not stormy as in lightning). She wouldnt even let us use the phone. We would have to sneak a handheld out and find a place to play. That kind of brought it back for me.

Good times, good times.

[Gamereviewgod]

My entire 7th grade science project was on video games. I still have the board and report. Still not sure how I pulled it off or got away with it, let alone got a B+.

[diskoboy]

:D I had a nelsonic Frogger watch in 3rd grade!! My parents hated when I wore it to school. Next christmas, I got a game & watch Donkey Kong. I took it to school once, almost got it confiscated, and I never took it back after that.

[Half Japanese]

Middle school field trips were overrun with Game Boys (and, to a lesser degree, Game Gears, which you could laugh at because they ran out of batteries before you arrived at your destination). Hell, I brought my NGPC to high school. I had teacher's aide my senior year and it's probably what kept me sane for those full periods of nothing that semester.

[TEND]

I still regularly bring my NGPC to school. Never got it confiscated or stolen. Most of my classes are computer programming, and computer science and the like so usually when I whip out my Neogeo or another handheld it gets a nice discussion going. Weird how most of the kids my age never even knew the NGPC existed, the first time I brought it in, I got a "Hey is that a new handheld?" The guy sitting beside me quickly informed him though.

[goatdan]

*sigh* Before college, the only thing I ever took with me to school was a Nintendo Game and Watch for Mario's something-or-another. I was extremely bored with whatever was going on, so I was playing it during class in my desk. The fact that I was staring at my hands and wasn't paying attention for probably an hour gave me away, and my teacher took the Game and Watch and told me that I could have it back at the end of the school year (!!).

When school was over for the year, the teacher had told me that she gave me the G&W back and that she didn't have it any more. I'll never know what really happened to it, I guess.

My parents gave me as a gift the pocket version of the game a few years ago, but it was just a little too small for me...

Oh yes, in High School, there was the TI-85, which I programmed a bunch of games on that were passed around school, and got really kick butt at TIetris, or whatever it was called. No real game systems though.

In college, I regularly took my NGPC with me because I always had super long breaks.

[blissfulnoise]

I used to rent out my Gameboy on school bus rides.

Charged $1.00 one way + $0.50 if you wanted to change games. I always had a back-log of takers. I then started to take my brother's Gameboy along.

$20.00+ a week when you're 9 isn't that bad a deal. At least not in 1989.

I did have my copy of Batman on the Gameboy stolen though. I like to think of it as "shrink" now.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Did you ever bring an electronic game to school?


Yes these below...My friends did the same..It was a lets see who will bring in what next.
Mattel Electronics Auto Race..
Mattel Electronic Battlestar Galactica Space Alert....This was confiscated but given back,..didn't stop me from bringing it.

And a Kingpin II..Mini-Handheld Pinball Machine..
The pinball game was actually my Dads..gift from my Mom..I'd sneak it to School in my backpack and it was a hit with my friends.
Funny as I have one in my collection now my Dad doesn't remember owning one..


Not my picture but I own these,could not find a picture of Kingpin II and I'm too lazy to take one......((Something's I had to obtain from my childhood))

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[PDorr3]

that would probably be my limited edition GB pocket ice blue, until it was stolen :(

[Nesmaster]

pokemon blue with my red gameboy in grade 5... good times :)

[Slimedog]

Actually, I never brought games to class until college. When I started collecting, I was working in the computer lab. I brought in everything, GB, Lynx, GG, NGPC, ect. Plus, since nobody ever came in on the weekends, I had "Playstation Saturday" on the mammoth projector in the auditorium. And got paid for it. Best. Job. Ever.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Yeah I took my game gear once or twice never caused much commotion though.

[Cauterize]

Ill always remember the day my friend brought in his Gameboy
We all crowded round to see it and hopefully have a go... (This was early 90s IIRC)

However i remember some bully coming along who we hadnt seen before/knew and pushing it out of his hands, to see it go falling down, straight onto concrete... and that was the last of that Gameboy!

Sad story really...

[AlexKidd]

I just recently graduated high school and during senior year I brought my gba to school every day I was actually there. Never got it stolen or confiscated. I played a lot of the 3 Castlevania's,the classic nes series and namco museum. I would have pac-man and galaga tournaments with people in my science class and once we even got our wood shop teacher to let us bring in an xbox for multiplayer halo. Good times.

[DigitalSpace]

Never brought one to school. I had a Game Gear back in the day (around 5th and 6th grade), but I can't recall ever taking it to school - in fact, it was usually plugged into an outlet in my bedroom via an AC adaptor 95% of the time I played it. I don't think I would have been allowed to take it to school anyways. After I sold the Game Gear, I didn't have another handheld console until I bought a GBA last year.

[Dimitri]

I took my GBA to school (high school, specifically) when I got my import system right after they came out. Of course, everyone was mucho impressed, and it got confiscated in my science class. I got it back afterwards, but the batteries were dead because the instructor didn't turn the thing off...

[Sylentwulf]

I had my Gameboy all through high school, couldn't have survuved without it.

[The Plucky Little Ninja]

A teacher friend of mine bought a PS2 and 2 DDR pads for her phy ed. class. The kids get to play it when those Minnesota winters get a little too intense.

[Cmosfm]

Sometimes, but I never got caught.

Why isn't this an option?

[Aussie2B]

Well, frequently in junior high I'd bring various gaming items to school. Due to a weirdo schedule of how I'd go to my dad's house after school and then go to my mom's after she got off from work, most of my brand new SNES and Game Boy games would first have to survive a trip to school in my backpack wrapped up in a t-shirt all day. Since I got the game in the evening with my mom and my systems were at my dad's house, that was the only convenient way I could get the game over there. I suppose I could have left the game in my mom's car and got it to leave in my dad's house when she arrived to pick me up, but then I wouldn't be able to play it all afternoon. :P Plus I wouldn't trust my game sitting in the car all day. Sometimes I'd also take a wad of 70-80 dollars to school, if I was planning on buying a game that evening and I knew we'd go to the store before stopping home. I also took lots of strategy guides and issues of Nintendo Power to read in whatever few free moments I got here and there, and I liked to show them off to friends. :) (To teenage girls who probably cared more about make-up and boys than "stupid" video games, haha, but I was oblivious to their lack of interest.)

However, I believe the one and only time I took a game to play was in high school, 11th grade. I took my GBC and a couple games, which I briefly played in history class. Then some boy annoyed me about it and starting talking about Pokemon.

My boyfriend occasionally takes a handheld with him to college (sometimes the NGPC), but I don't think I've ever done so. However, just recently, I did take my Game Boy Pocket to jury duty, hehe, and on my cross-country flight, I played a little GBC.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I'd bring my GameBoy Advanced a couple times when I was in high school. Every Friday, we'd have "DEAR" time, where we would all have to sit down and read for 20 minutes (which I think is the biggest waste of time ever for school.)
My homeroom teacher didn't care if I played Super Mario Bros. 3 on the GBA.... just as long as he got a turn 8-)

[Yago]

I only recall donig it a couple of times. It seemed like everyone got to play it except me, and it was mine. But long ago I had the Coleco Mini Arcade Frogger Game that I brought to school. It got taken away because this idiot who didn't even ask to play it kept playing it after recess. I got it back after school and never brought it back. I also recall I brought a Digital Derby to school. Man, that was a LONG time ago. LOL

[Mianrtcv]

Sometimes, but I never got caught.

Why isn't this an option?


Left it out by accident. Also was having all sorts of computer issues.

[Chuplayer]

I brought my Game Boy and Donkey Kong '94 to "game day" in third grade. While everybody was playing board games, I was playing DK :)

[Fuyukaze]

Back when I was in school, I didnt bring games to school to play, just to trade or sell. Even though I wasnt playing them, simply having them on me was against school policy. In HS, the GB was released so I would sometimes bring that for Saturday Class and play it when I thought the teachers were not looking. After getting cought a few times and having it taken from me once, I decided to stop bringing it and would either try to get a few hours sleep (cant take eye lids away!) or would bring a book I actualy wanted to read as we were not allowed to do school work as it was punishment, not class.

[legov8]

As much as I love videogames. I would never bring my Game Boy to school. I don't want to risk it getting lost, taken away, getting stolen, or getting broken.

[WanganRunner]

I remember I brought my Game Gear to school right after I got it, which was right when it came out.

No one else had anything but Game Boy, so it got quite a lot of attention. Damn thing only ran for 2 hrs before I needed new batteries though, that sucked pretty bad.

[dreamcaster]

In primary school, I only had an Atari Lynx and I deemed it too cumbersome (and power hungry) to use for discreet entertainment.

In early high school I remember taking my Game Boy Color with me a few times, and later my Game Boy Advance. Friend and I had link games of Mario Kart: Super Circuit. :)

Never got anything confiscated, but if I were threatened with it, there's not a chance in hell ANY teacher would get their hands on my stuff.

[bigdaddychester]

I remember taking my alien attack back in elementary school. I just played it before school and at lunch but the teacher thought it was too much of a distraction for the other students ( everyone wanted to play ) So I was told to never bring it back again. :/

[Crazycarl]

i was always taking my portables to school. i remember then my GBA SP had a burberry cover on it (not real of course) and having a girl come up to me saying "is that a GUCCI gameboy." i just shook my head and walked away. that and doing link play w/ other gets, and just annihilating them in Street Fighter 2. hehe nobody could beet me w/ Zangief.

[Daria]

I remember that in first grade just about everyone had the electronic nintendo wristwatches- well except me. I just remember everyone else playing with them.

In fourth grade I got a GameGear for my birthday which I wanted because my best friend Tia had gotten one for hers. All the kids with GameBoys wanted to play Sonic because it was in color. I also had the battery pack so I never ran out of juice prematurely.

And in highschool everyone just had those T1 calculators- except of course me. I did piss off one of my friends though by beating her tetris highscore. She never let me play with her calculator again afterwards. She wasn't able to erase my initials all year.

[notoriusvig]

Nah, never anything portable. On the last week of grade school, every year starting in the 6th grade my friends would bring in a console to play. It started with the Genesis (Wrestlemania and Mortal Kombat) followed by the PSX (WCW vs. The World) and then the N64 (WCW/nWo World Tour) in 8th grade. Good times, good times.

My friend used to play Dope Wars on his calculator in high school.

[Flack]

The original Gameboy came out when I was a junior in high school, although I don't remember anyone ever bringing one to school. I did own a CD Walkman which impressed a lot of people though.

In third or fourth grade my friend brought his Coleco Donkey Kong mini game to school one time. We played it on recess instead of tetherball.

[OdSquad64]

i occasionally brought my GBC for long field trips in middle school, but never actually played at school. In my computer programming class last year i spent most of the time playing emulators, everything from NES to N64 was on my memory stick (instead of the visual basic projects that should have been there), but i still got a 96 in the class. Also, sometimes i would borrow someone's calculator and play tetris or fallup during study hall.

[Muscelli]

ah, in second grade it was the sh!t to bring pokemon cards, and pokemon games to school... I remember at recess one day, nobody played and litearlly every kid at recess would either be playing or wach somebody play pokemon... man, wed have link battles and bet our lunch money... it was actually not bad, like a tournament winner would get 15 dollars... nedless to say, I discovered gameshark and made 60 dollars one month ;) I sort of feel bad for doing so now....

Oh, and I would bring my psp to school and have a lot of fun on the wipeout browser... When my teacher came and asked me why I was playing games during class, I would switch to the homebrew psp calculator program :) then when she left i would go back to web browsing.

[Emily]

pokemon blue with my red gameboy in grade 5... good times :)

Oh yeah. 8-)
For me it was Pokemon Blue in a yellow Gameboy Pocket. :)
I had alot of friends who played Gameboys and a few were addicted to pokemon. I would hide my gameboy deep in my backpack until lunch or after school( there was a very strict policy on electronic games of any kind at my school) I would have killed someone if it had been stolen.

In 8th grade we had a cool teacher who let us all bring our GBs to school for a day.

[Daria]

and I would bring my psp to school.

What last week? That hardly warrants past tense. You make it sound like yesteryear or something.

[Muscelli]

last month..

[Zilla]

The past few years in college my GBA goes with me everywhere. Time in between class was passed playing advanced wars. Good stuff.