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3D Animated Rollercoaster in Excel (2011)

82 points by solarengineer 4y ago

digitallyfree 4y ago
I remember students sharing Excel games back in the day (when webgame sites were blocked at school). There were simple snake games and also fancier ones like a pop-up shooting gallery. Eventually they discovered that they could download a Flash game as a SWF, bringing their collections in on flash drives and trading them in the lab.
- 7952 4y ago
  My school used to block opening windows file explorer as a way of preventing installation of software. We used to install games by opening explorer through help.
- djmips 4y ago
  Is that why they were called flash drives?
  - spcebar 4y ago
    It's called a flash drive because it uses flash memory. Check out for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
    - glouwbug 4y ago
      It was a joke?
- AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
  I was definitely one of those students in high school. To this day, there's a flash game I downloaded from some random site (Japanese/Chinese/Korean, I honestly don't remember) that was sort of like a javelin toss contest, only instead it involved seeing how far you could launch a male student after hitting him with a bike. There were various anime helper summons that could give him an additional push if his momentum was starting to run out. I put an insane amount of time into that game back in the day, but since it was in a foreign language I didn't know the title and could never track it down. Plus whatever flash-drive/laptop I had it saved onto from 2006 has long since bit the dust.
  - jml7c5 4y ago
    "NANACA†CRASH!!" I would assume: https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/ https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/
    - AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
      That's the one! I had a sneaking suspicion that if I had the opportunity to work it into an on-topic HN comment, someone would remember. :D
    - Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
      Whoa this really takes me back like 15 years.
tylermw 4y ago
The modern "data science" solution, however, is to make your 3D animated rollercoaster in R! Much more efficient :) Link: https://www.tylermw.com/datacoaster-tycoon/ https://www.tylermw.com/datacoaster-tycoon/
- mcdonje 4y ago
  There's definitely a support column that goes through the track, lol.
- wiz21c 4y ago
  eagerly waiting for the brainfuck AND rust ports...
_boffin_ 4y ago
And... here's Doom in Excel: http://public.cbel.free.fr/downloads/ http://public.cbel.free.fr/downloads/
- Headwig 4y ago
  What can't run doom at this point?
muti 4y ago
Roller coaster in a winamp visualization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhm7uFv4ZOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhm7uFv4ZOQ
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82 points by solarengineer 4y ago

I remember students sharing Excel games back in the day (when webgame sites were blocked at school). There were simple snake games and also fancier ones like a pop-up shooting gallery. Eventually they discovered that they could download a Flash game as a SWF, bringing their collections in on flash drives and trading them in the lab.

7952 4y ago
My school used to block opening windows file explorer as a way of preventing installation of software. We used to install games by opening explorer through help.
djmips 4y ago
Is that why they were called flash drives?
- spcebar 4y ago
  It's called a flash drive because it uses flash memory. Check out for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
  - glouwbug 4y ago
    It was a joke?
AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
I was definitely one of those students in high school. To this day, there's a flash game I downloaded from some random site (Japanese/Chinese/Korean, I honestly don't remember) that was sort of like a javelin toss contest, only instead it involved seeing how far you could launch a male student after hitting him with a bike. There were various anime helper summons that could give him an additional push if his momentum was starting to run out. I put an insane amount of time into that game back in the day, but since it was in a foreign language I didn't know the title and could never track it down. Plus whatever flash-drive/laptop I had it saved onto from 2006 has long since bit the dust.
- jml7c5 4y ago
  "NANACA†CRASH!!" I would assume: https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/ https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/
  - AdmiralAsshat 4y ago
    That's the one! I had a sneaking suspicion that if I had the opportunity to work it into an on-topic HN comment, someone would remember. :D
  - Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
    Whoa this really takes me back like 15 years.

tylermw 4y ago

The modern "data science" solution, however, is to make your 3D animated rollercoaster in R! Much more efficient :) Link: https://www.tylermw.com/datacoaster-tycoon/ https://www.tylermw.com/datacoaster-tycoon/

mcdonje 4y ago
There's definitely a support column that goes through the track, lol.
wiz21c 4y ago
eagerly waiting for the brainfuck AND rust ports...

_boffin_ 4y ago

And... here's Doom in Excel: http://public.cbel.free.fr/downloads/ http://public.cbel.free.fr/downloads/

Headwig 4y ago
What can't run doom at this point?

muti 4y ago

Roller coaster in a winamp visualization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhm7uFv4ZOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhm7uFv4ZOQ

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