Skool Daze + Back to Skool Review - ZX Spectrum - Kim Justice 

Played it in 1984 and never read any of what todo. Just played it and loved it, to have freedom to walk round doing what you like was as said the first love of sandbox games 🤗 A great big thanks for the video and the excellent memories it brought back Kim 🙏

I loved Wheelie, that feeling you got when you successfully landed a double bus jump for the 1st time. Put so many hours into the Skool games and never knew what to do, half the fun i reckon. Big thx Kim, awesome as always.

I hadn't heard of the Spectrum until a few years ago because I'm from the US and I didn't know anyone that had one when I was younger. Discovering this game a few years ago was a pure delight. School Daze is amazing! Thanks for the video!

Sir Clive almost popped a vein when he found out that more school children were using his Spectrum to play games than to learn maths and coding. He never really grasped the fact that Spectrum sales were largely driven by kids saying "Please Dad. Buy me a Spectrum. I promise I will use it for my homework." (I know because I was one of them :-) Also he never really understood that practically the only people learning coding were the people writing the games. Long live the Speky, the coders and Sir Clive.

I played the C64 version. It looked almost identical to the Spectrum version, making it easily the most eye-searing C-64 game ever made.

These games made the speccy for me, sandbox on the speccy, just class and so much nostalgia here. Thanks kim and class video mate.

I don't often write this on comment sections regarding youtube jockeys but Kim you are a truly great video game historian / journalist.

I read up on the 1990-1995 gaming renaissance of the Spectrum in my country (Czechoslovakia > The Czech Republic) due to the popularity of these low cost computers in the East and the fact they were making local clones. It's interesting though it's a topic that gets barely any attention period.

Good stuff as per usual, Kim. I bloody loved playing Skool Daze with my mum back in the day (since I sort of adopted her Speccy), I had no idea there was a sequel, I might have to try tracking down a copy.

YES! ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES TACKLED BY KIMBLE JUSTICE!

We had an actual Mr. Creak at my school, but he was the French teacher. Right sarcastic bugger too :D But it's amazing that this game is so good, yet the official Grange Hill game was a pile of shit. They even got the main character's sprite the wrong way around in the Amstrad port, so he's constantly moonwalking.

I used to love these games; they were so unique. Did get annoying that you could get told off for being beaten to the ground/knocked off a school-desk seat, or even for jumping (“You are not a kangaroo”?!? WTF?!?), but by and large the game was very enjoyable. _Back to Skool_ was a more-than-worthy sequel, too. Shame that in the sequel you could only rename the characters once (unless you wanted to reload the entire game after resetting the Speccy). There were a couple of other bugs in _Back to Skool_ besides the one you pointed out in which you could no longer get knocked off desk seats. One is where you go right up to the left wall of the boys’ school, face to the right and fire your water pistol, which caused the screen to scroll, and that all movement from thereon would cause the screen to scroll again until you were looking at the girls’ school on the far right of the playing area. Although you could control yourself whilst off-screen you would quite often have to wait until the next playtime before you could keep walking to the right as the caretaker opened the boys’ school door, then the main gate separating the two schools, before you could walk back onto the screen and have the flick-screen scrolling return to normal. The other bug involved the blue room. During a class of yours in there, if you ran into the library whilst the teacher was wiping the board, waited for the swot to grass on you, then returned to the blue room when your name appeared in his speech balloon, the teacher would start wiping the board again and then start to try and walk through the wall. If you then walked right to get the screen to scroll, then retraced your steps to get the screen to scroll back to the full visibility of the blue room the teacher would have disappeared (not permanently, as it happens, but in actual fact he would have walked right through the wall and re-emerged in the girls’ school and would eventually be able to wend his way back to where he was supposed to be). Shame that the teacher in question could not get stick from Miss Take (the headmistress) for being a male in a girls’ school because she would certainly have bollocked Eric for being in there at any point!

I've noticed you get very active around the school holidays, I lead a course at a college in Lewisham so I'm definitely feeling the week off. Loved these games BTW.

IT'S IRONIC. I wonder how many kids skipped school so they could play Skool Daze at their mate's place while Mum and Dad were at work. Especially after begging Mum and Dad to "please please please buy me a Spectrum. I promise I will use it for my homework." Hopefully, Sir Clive never found out what his "educational" computer was actually used for. ;-) Luv your reviews, Kim. :-)

Thank you Kim, I've learnt so much from your channel, you're very very good at what you do

I gotta admit even as a US C64 fan and someone who mocks the Speccie that the 128 and the +2 are gorgeous looking pieces of hardware. But as a US retro games fan its not worth the effort to even get one. On the upside there are some games including these on the legit Spectaculator release on Ios.

My 8th grade history teacher was 88 years old when I had him. He retired twice before me, but well our town was small and we didn't have enough teachers so they kept asking him back. He'd punch students. He threw me out of my desk because he thought I was writing in a book.... turns out it was the kid next to me. His teaching style was to just play movies and give tests. He'd also play Rush Limbaugh in class.

Charming story - thank you!

5:33 you read my mind!

Lol I had no idea back in the day what to do in this game. Wheelie was a classic tho imo

Ever since I discovered this game (I’m a yank) I’ve been fascinated by it. Thanks for this amazing inside look.

I'm amazed anyone bought ZX software with how easy it is to copy the tapes.

Most in depth review ive seen of the game ,

I'm glad someone made the connection between Back to Skool and Skool Daze and Bully.

always nice to see a new Kim video 👍👍

This is the only game I envied Spectrum users when I had C-64. I didn't knew there was a port.

As a pirate - i never had a clue of what i was supposed to do.. but I enjoyed fucking around..

"Boy Wander" and "Mr Wacker" got VERY similar name changes .... one letter for each

give her flowers to do lines? i always thought it was a kiss?

also theres no key for the door to the school yard is there? u need to drop a stink bomb get the head teacher to open window, shoot conker to knock out albert then jump out and get bike.. man what a game!

LOL @ naming of Einstein there, I see what you did ;)

i loved both of these games they were great :)

I loved Bak 2 skool but never completed it.

I think I actually downloaded Klass of '99 when it was still new-ish? Can't remember if I got around to playing it.

I assume the uneven scanlines are a result of RU-vid's compression? I really hope it doesn't look that bad on your computer. I hate uneven scanlines. They bother me too much for some reason.

there is an skool daze app which is good too.

My favourite game ever. X

I didn't have a speccie sadly, but I played the c64 port quite a lot. Exactly the same in every respect, and 20% slower. but hey, it was £1.99 so I wasn't complaining.

4:08 Okay, what the heck is the line here? All I can hear is "These were the days when you were kind of expected to eat the cassette in later and figure this out."

Skool Daze.. Speccy Classic. 100%

Reggie Fils-Aimé developed games in the past?

another cracking vid!

What is the term for a European "weeaboo"? That is, someone who is a weeb for the Euro. In my case, I'd I have some amount of Euro Weeb within my soul. You all have impeccable style, and the fact that no "80's video game crash" meant a thing to you all is pretty cool. Respect.

magic cheers.

We never had School Daze on Atari. :(

School Daze? Isn't that the visual novel that got turned into an anime about yandere's and boats?

do you have a problem with your R's

now when kids get lines at school they have to type them out on their tablets

So weird that you UK guys had computers to game on that americans never even heard off.