[HN Gopher] 3D Animated Rollercoaster in Excel (2011)
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       3D Animated Rollercoaster in Excel (2011)
        
       Author : solarengineer
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2022-05-07 11:24 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | _boffin_ wrote:
       | And... here's Doom in Excel:
       | http://public.cbel.free.fr/downloads/
        
       | tylermw wrote:
       | 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/
        
         | mcdonje wrote:
         | There's definitely a support column that goes through the
         | track, lol.
        
         | wiz21c wrote:
         | eagerly waiting for the brainfuck AND rust ports...
        
       | digitallyfree wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
           | "NANACA+CRASH!!" I would assume:
           | https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/
        
             | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
             | 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 wrote:
             | Whoa this really takes me back like 15 years.
        
         | djmips wrote:
         | Is that why they were called flash drives?
        
           | spcebar wrote:
           | It's called a flash drive because it uses flash memory. Check
           | out for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory
        
             | glouwbug wrote:
             | It was a joke?
        
         | 7952 wrote:
         | 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.
        
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