Back in my day, kids used their graphing calculators to play games with boring, vague names like “Snake” and “Brick Breaker.” Not this intrepid student, who programmed his TI-84 Plus graphing calculator to give school kids everywhere a new way to pretend they’re doing work in math class while secretly battling through a homebrew version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Skyrim, in case you didn’t know, is the dragon-filled role-playing game from Bethesda that sold 3.4 million copies in its first two days on sale.
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Okay, so the TI-84 version’s not quite as…visually vibrant. Still, YouTube user no9sniper has — to the consternation of high school teachers everywhere — created a simple, text-based RPG that lets you wander around “Skyrim” doing many of the things you can in the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game: accept quests, earn money and kill wolves (so … many … wolves).
No word yet if this TI-84 tribute might eventually include such celebrated Skyrim features as Lydia (your bodyguard) blocking random doorways, or jail time for killing chickens.