


Thus, everyone became addicted to Boxhead: The Zombie Wars.īoxhead: The Zombie Wars is split into two modes Classic and Defense. And of course, me being the trend setter that I was as a middle school kid, I introduced them to the world of online flash games. Of course most of my peers had short attention spans, so next everyone was hooked on Icy Tower.

See, it started when all of the wannabe-cool kids started using their parents’ cash to buy memberships on RuneScape, and once at least five or so of their accounts had been banned, it was all about Adventure Quest: Worlds. Luckily, none of the teachers had eyes around the room, nor was that screen-viewer software around yet, so instead of wasting away hours “making a brochure in Word,” my peers and I would scour the Internet looking for the next hot game to play.īoxhead: The Zombie Wars was one of those hot games. And although the point of this was to start building up STEM programs, most of the time kids were just stuck doing the same boring Microsoft Office assignments for months. If you attended middle school or any K-thru-8 school back in the middle of the 2000s, you probably remember a time when laptops and other computers were being bought in bulk for so called “ technology literacy” programs.
