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Klass of 99

Klass of 99

Arcade

Overview

Klass of 99 resurrects the spirit of 1980s British gaming classic Skool Daze, inviting players into a pixelated schoolyard sandbox of mischief and nostalgia. This remake divides its audience sharply: while longtime fans celebrate its faithful chaos and cathartic teacher-targeting antics, newcomers often collide with obscure objectives, punishing mechanics, and a repetitive daily grind. The game channels teenage rebellion into slingshots and bombs, but whether that translates to fun depends entirely on your tolerance for retro frustration versus nostalgic charm.

Nostalgia Versus Newcomer Woes

At its core, Klass of 99 excels as a love letter to its ZX Spectrum predecessor. Players relive the goal of sabotaging academic records—now updated from cracking a physical safe to hacking the principal’s computer. The joy lies in anarchic freedom: skipping class, pelting teachers with projectiles, and triggering playground brawls without real-world detention. For those who remember the original, this is digital comfort food.

Klass of 99 is an epic remake of a timeless classic.

Rekall

Yet the game falters as a standalone experience. New players encounter bafflingly vague objectives, with in-game files cryptically referencing a "story" that never materializes during actual gameplay. Goals like planting bombs or collecting wall plaques devolve into trial-and-error guesswork, exacerbated by clunky controls that make diagonal jumps impossible. The result feels less like a puzzle and more like wandering through inside jokes only veterans understand.

The Tyranny of "Lines"

Klass of 99’s most polarizing mechanic is its punishment system. Accumulating "lines" (detention assignments) for minor infractions dominates the experience, often feeling capricious. Players report punishments for:

  • Sitting on the floor after being tripped by bullies
  • Facing the wrong direction during assembly
  • Being near another student who fires a slingshot
  • Entering staff rooms during breaks

The rigid daily schedule—classes punctuated by fleeting recesses—leaves scant time for experimentation. Skip math to plant a bomb? A teacher materializes to assign lines. Try retrieving a second explosive? The janitor’s closet only opens during specific periods. This creates a frustrating loop: players must risk punishment to progress, yet accumulating too many lines leads to expulsion and game over. While defenders argue this mirrors classic British school simulation, critics find it suffocating rather than challenging.

Catharsis in Pixelated Rebellion

When the systems click, Klass of 99 delivers cathartic wish-fulfillment. The simple act of pelting a virtual teacher with chalk or watching chaos erupt in the cafeteria channels universal school-day fantasies. For some, this sandbox transcends its janky execution:

After I do troubles in school it's great to do it on comp with less responsibility and consequences.

Bobo

The retro presentation amplifies this charm. Deliberately primitive sprites and chiptune bells between classes lean into nostalgia, though modern players may find them more quaint than immersive. Crucially, the game understands its audience: those seeking deep strategy or narrative will be disappointed, but players craving a stress-relief simulator about dismantling school authority find raw satisfaction in its systems.

Verdict

Nostalgic schoolyard chaos with punishing retro frustrations

STRENGTHS

60%
Nostalgia Charm85%
Cathartic Mischief75%
Retro Aesthetic70%

WEAKNESSES

40%
Unclear Objectives90%
Punishment System80%
Repetitive Loop85%
Clunky Controls65%

Community Reviews

8 reviews
Adam Box
Adam Box
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Get this game if you want to relive high school, or better yet just re-enroll. Its about as fun. So basically this game consists of you going to school and trying to get your grades changed, or something. There's no story even though all sorts of files in the game tell you to check the story for hints on what you have to do in the game. What happens is you go to class then recess then class then lunch then class then home time and you start again tomorrow. You can jump and collect little plaques from the walls but you can't jump diagonal or move anything so others are completely impossible to get. Unless explained in the mysterious story. Another thing you can do is collect a bomb from the janitors closet and put it somewhere to blow up something, but it never works on anything and you can only carry one at a time and it's hard to get another one because you have to wait for the janitor to go to his closet during a break. During class will result in getting "lines". If you skip class to go and achieve something in this game then teachers will get you. They give you lines. Collect enough lines and you get expelled. You get lines for shooting teachers with your sling shot or shooting students with your slingshot when a teacher sees. Sometimes another student will shoot the teacher and you will get lines. Or a student will hit you and you'll fall down and get lines for sitting down on the floor. You also get lines for facing the wrong way in assembly and for going into the teachers staff room or principals staff room. It's frustrating because you only get small gaps to figure out the story and do something about it and long boring gaps where you will get lots of lines or sit in class and be bored stiff. "Please sir, I cannot tell a lie, this game stinks." I give credit for putting the graphics together, putting the music together and figuring out the code and stuff for this game. They get a big plus in my book. Overall this game is dull, boring, monotonous, uninteresting, slow and generally not very good. Download it if you want hey I won't stop you but don't say you weren't warned. This is not very good at all.

Rekall
Rekall
Trusted

Klass of 99, is kind of like a fan remake of the outrageously popular School Daze which was first released on the ZX Spectrum, where you play a naughty school boy and you have the ability to skip class, shoot teachers with catapults and fight in the playground. This game is an excellent way to vent your school frustrations and do all the things to teachers that you can only dream of. In Skool Daze your goal was to find the safe combination and destroy your terrible class record, and in Klass of 99, the goal is similar except for the fact that you have to now find the password for the principle's computer because the results are now electronic. Klass of 99 is an epic remake of a timeless classic.

Vegeta897

Vegeta897

This game is based off of a CLASSIC. Back when games actually meant something. I laugh at you if you say the graphics are bad. I laugh at you for not knowing what lines are. This is a British game. You clearly don't have the patience to play the game. It does have a story, if you were to go to the main site. I would like to also tell you that when someone else shoots his slingshot, YOU aren't getting lines. Don't believe me? Look again. Not only does the teacher not say your name, but if you know any sort of mathematics, you will see that your number of lines will not increase. Do me a favor and learn your roots before you insult a true classic.

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