The Good - King for a (Half) Day
When I was in the 1st grade, our individual daily activities were decided via a poster board full of everyone's name and clothespins with the type of activity. You could only do an activity a maximum of twice a week. The most popular activity? Math Munchers. Most kids didn't have video game systems in their homes so this was their first exposure, and sometimes only their only available option, to this sort of thing. Thus, computer games became very popular among all the students.
During the 2nd and 3rd grade, Zoombinis were the craze to play on the school's PCs. That was supplanted by Oregon Trail II in the 4th grade. Unlike Zoombinis, nobody could seem to beat the game though. A lot of people screwed around and solely hunted and only took a break to buy gunpowder and shotgun shells. For many of us though, we were determined to reach the final destination, Willamette Valley.
Lucky for us, we didn't have to beat in one sitting. The computers had more than enough space to allow for plenty of files to be saved, so we all had one and did we need it. We all died, a lot. We were too hasty in trying to travel across a river or some other body of water, we figured we could live solely off of the meat of the animals we hunted, and we essentially told sick people to walk it off.
One day though, I just happened to boot up my file and started playing without putting my heart or head into it. I was dumbfounded when a screen popped up with the word "Congratulations" across the top. I actually was the first succeed at something that seemingly half the students in the school were trying to accomplish.
For the remainder of the day, I was the talk of the school.
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