This brings back memories!!<p>You can also play Pinball in Word 97:<p>>1. Open a new document<p>>2. Type "Blue"<p>>3. Select word<p>>4. Go to Format -> Font<p>>5. Choose Font Style Bold, Color Blue<p>>6. Type " " (space) after word "Blue"<p>>7. Go to Help -> About<p>>8. Ctrl-Shift-Left click the Word icon/banner<p>>9. Use Z for left flipper, M for right flipper, and ESC to exit<p>I got banned for a spell from the library computers in middle school because they had a "no games" policy. I think in retrospect, the real concern was random young men like myself, fresh into puberty, loading up the machines with god knows what, but of course they lacked communication skills to express that (hence becoming a sped librarian), so instead we got into a (metaphorical) pissing match that ended with me banned from the computers for... well I think it was allegedly six months, but they lasted about a week before they realized if I stopped asking their informal IT questions, they'd have to bring in an extremely expensive consultant, caved, and let me back on if I promised "not to install games" -- and then we got into pretty much the same argument yet again when once again my shortbus was late, and I tried to sit quietly playing pinball since saying anything out loud risked someone engineering an excuse to put their hands on me and deviate my septum again.<p>(In case you can't tell from the tone of this post, I'm still raw that when I had Bill Goddman Lichetenstein blowing up my burner email, all I did was do a cutesy unpaid "it gets better" essay for Boing Boing rather than waste my 20s on STEM policy only to find out all I had to do is tell a crowd "Why do we tolerate Mike Doyle and his weird little sex cult" and they'd have a crowd outside Peduto's house in less time than it takes to watch an episode of prestige television.<p>(It doesn't get better, BTW. Maybe in Seattle or whatever, but if you're a queer, autistic millennial in Appalachia, you need to make some people think every system around them, electronic or physical, might fail if they don't do what you say in order to get them to treat you with the same deference and respect they give elderly pedophiles who control so called civil society.)<p>Anyways, sorry for the wall of text -- here's a link on how to play pinball in word 97, if you're into that kind of thing:<p><a href="https://eeggs.com/items/763.html" rel="nofollow">https://eeggs.com/items/763.html</a><p>(But if you attach that box to the net, someone might pop it, since Windows 98 or whatever is no longer receiving security updates, and Mark Zuckerberg and his tech bro cronies have the consent model of a frat boy -- if you don't opt out, they think they can do whatever they want.)