10 Games We All Used To Play In IT Class

Many classic browser games took on a sporting theme. Denise Lewis’ Heptathlon was a button mashing experience thankfully less finger bleed inducing than the classic International Track & Field, whilst Tardis Tennis was always accessible for a quick game given that it was hosted on the BBC website and could pass as a historical education tool. God only knows what anyone could claim to learn from seeing Queen Victoria, William Shakespeare and John Lennon (who was 'John Legend' for copyright purposes, interestingly enough) go racket to racket with Winston Churchill mind…

Cricket is a ludicrously complicated sport to understand at the best of times, but Stick Cricket thankfully condensed the complexities. Starring a stick figure batsman (hence the name), it tasked players with scoring as many runs as possible from the balls that were thrown at them. Patience and timing were the orders of the day, as swinging at every ball was a sure-fire way of being quickly outed, resulting in a surprisingly strategic experience for something so simple.

Unlike many of its counterparts, Stick Cricket graduated to mobile devices and remains popular in a number of guises today, offering a variety of bowling and batting experiences with avatars that are no longer stick men, rendering the name somewhat obsolete. Nothing can surpass the straightforward enjoyment of the original, however, even if they can get Virat Kohli to endorse it…