Школа пико

Bonus

• Click on the red locker that has a little yellow on it. There will be a Medicinal Herb (a.k.a. a weed pack) inside. Use it when you have taken damage, as it completely restores your life.
• Go to the boy’s bathroom. Click the bottom toilet stall, and someone inside will ask if you can close it. If you do not, they will throw a lot of shit at you, and you’ll receive the Scat Man achievement, where the game remarks «You sure do like shit!«. However, you are able to kill them.
• Click on the handle of a urinal to flush. Doing this repeatedly will get you the Marc Summers achievement.
• Click on the sink handle to overflow the sink, and you’ll receive the Tap That achievement. The same thing can be done in the girl’s bathroom, but not with flushing the urinals.
• After you kill Cyclops, you can continue to shoot his corpse. The text «BRUTAL!» will also appear over him, and you will get the Brutal achievement.
• When Alucard is defeated and pulls all the furniture in the room towards him, you can blast away the furniture and finish him off. This nets you the Overkill achievement.
• At the part where you see Nene praying to end her life, you’re able to kill her. The first time you shoot at her, her face will be blown off, and she will bleed out heavily. The second time you shoot her, she will be reduced to a pile of blood and viscera.
• During the final battle, blast the tank to the upper right that says «Flammable» until it explodes. This will blow open the wall behind Cassandra to the outside, where the police have gathered in their squad cars and will join the fight. This gets you the Bruckheimer achievement. The cops outside will be able to make the final battle a bit easier, thanks to their gunfire whittling away at Cassandra’s health along with your own efforts (though you can kill them and blow up their police cars if you wish).

Quotes

«It doesn’t matter anyway. You have failed the test of life, and I will take you all on if I must!«

―Pico, Pico’s School

«You’re gonna be so full of lead, you’ll have to use your dick as a pencil!«

―Pico, Pico’s School

«Zombies? On a beautiful night like tonight? Why the nerve…«

―Pico, Resident Pico

«Did you know Cassandra was just using your teen angst to get her own way?«

―Pico, Pico’s School: Love Conquers All

«Can you believe we only got three days off for that?!«

―Pico, Pico 2

«I’m sorry to hear that, Alucard. He sounds like a real self-obsessed jerk. But you shouldn’t trade a self-obsessed jerk for another.«

―Pico, Pico’s School: Love Conquers All

«No thanks, I don’t do steroids.«

―Pico, Pico 2

«These guys sound pretty badass! I bet the aliens have sent them after me!«

―Pico, Pico 2

«If I had a bag, I’d stick it over head!«

―Pico, Pico 2

« are the bane of society!«

―Pico, Pico 2

«Nah man, I like punk rock. But you know what isn’t punk rock? Shooting your classmates, silly!«

―Pico, Pico’s School: Love Conquers All

«Our world isn’t as bad as you think! How about we take a walk together?«

―Pico, Pico’s School: Love Conquers All

«Kids are stupid, I get teased for my ginger hair. What if tomorrow, you dye your hair red and I wear an eye patch? That should throw them for a loop!«

―Pico, Pico’s School: Love Conquers All

«This is my boyfriend! Everyone at school is totally cool with it. I’m not saying everything is perfect, but our planet is coming around. I think you’d find you like it here, if you gave us a chance.«

―Pico, Pico’s School: Love Conquers All

Reception & legacy

It is difficult to determine the popularity of the original Pico’s School, due to the fact that it was released before the modern Flash Portal was created. The April 2006 re-release alone currently has over 8.5 million views, as well as an average review of 4.70/5.00. Although it only won the Daily Second Place award, it is important to note that it was submitted on the first Pico Day, and only lost to Luis’ famous movie Pico vs. Convict. FGN dubbed the game a «Flash classic,» and gave it an impressive score of 8.6/10. Additionally, Pico’s School is featured in the Pico collection.

Pico’s most recent appearance was in Friday Night Funkin’, a rhythm game that was also created on, and is a semi-tribute to Newgrounds.

General information

Physical appearance

Pico has ginger hair, a green shirt with darker green sleeves, beige or green pants, and a pair of red sneakers with orange ankle patches and light brown soles. He has distinctive white eyes with no pupils as a stylistic choice. He is sometimes depicted with a tooth gap, most notably in some of MindChamber’s art.

Personality

Pico is described as «popular» by his peers, being the first one to raise his hand in class, often using his words and speaking up whenever possible, showing his confident side. He also acts quite reckless and takes action immediately during the destruction of his school. In Pico vs. Überkids, he doesn’t show any fear when faced with the gun, and even shoots the gun into his mouth twice instead of just once as a strategic move. He has an aggressive side to him, being an extremely skilled gunman and ruthlessly fighting anyone standing in his way. Pico is also shown to be caring of his friends’ safety, and immediately faces threats against Darnell and Nene without hesitation in Pico 2 and Resident Pico respectively.

In Pico’s School: Love Conquers All, he behaves in a hospitable manner towards the Goth Punks and is determined to encourage them to be more optimistic. He is outspoken and readily expresses disapproval of behavior that he thinks is wrong, even if whom he is talking about is present.

Pico’s School

June/July 1999 (Original)

April 30, 2006 (Re-release)

Audio used

«Godlike» — KMFDM, «Weapons of Mass Destruction» — Hive, «Ultrasonic Sound» — Hive (Original)

«Pico’s School — Step 1», «Pico’s School — It’s Go Time», «Pico’s School — Talkin’ Smack», «Pico’s School — Boss Fight» — ThatJohnnyGuy (Re-release)

Goth kids have shot up your school and it’s up to Pico to save the day!

I made this game in 1999, before I grew out of my edgy teen phase… or did I? It was posted on Newgrounds before the Portal system launched in 2000; I eventually uploaded it to the Portal in 2006 so people could vote on it and leave reviews.

This story has since been re-told with Pico’s School: Love Conquers All.

Pico was made in Flash 3, before the introduction of variables (or just about any code, for that matter). To simulate stored data, I weaved a complex web of movie clips that gave orders to the main game. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of frame labels, so all the commands referred to frame numbers, making things difficult to edit afterwards.

Walkthrough

The opening sequence, before the shooting occurs.

The game begins with Pico in the classroom learning about apples and bananas before Cassandra comes and shoots up the classroom, killing everyone except for Pico. Leave the classroom and go right. Grab the fire extinguisher off the wall, because you will need it later. Then, keep going right until you see the janitor’s closet.

The janitor’s closet.

Go inside and grab the assault rifle off the table. Exit the closet and go right once more to meet Cyclops. Blast the gun out of his hands and then choose to spare his life or kill him. Either way, go back to the door you heard shooting coming from. Cassandra is inside, along with a psychic boy by the name of Alucard.

Alucard’s boss battle.

Alucard has a telekinetic shield that blocks Pico’s bullets, so shooting him does nothing when it’s up. His primary method of attack is to throw dead kids at you, which you will need to blast out of the air. His main pattern is to throw one kid high, one kid mid-height, and one low. Blast them out of the air in this order, and Alucard will become distracted and lower his shield. This is your cue to blast him. Once Alucard is down to half his energy, he will drop a chair down on you that you have to blast out of the air as well. Keep repeating the process until you get Alucard’s energy meter all the way down. When this happens, he will lose control of his powers and pull all the furniture in the room toward him like a human magnet. Once he is defeated, Alucard will give you his school key and tell you to leave him alone. You can either leave him behind after taking the key, or you can blast the furniture out of the way and finish him off.

Leave the room and go right until you reach a gate sitting in the middle of the hallway. Click on the key in your inventory to raise the gate. Then go into the girl’s bathroom to start the next boss battle.

Pico and Hanzou stand off.

Pico smoking the «medicinal herb».

The lights go out and a kid with a very scary-looking sword and night vision goggles attacks you. This is Hanzou. Defeating them is relatively straightforward — their path is traced by the red glare of their goggles. Follow the glare and blast them as they move across the room. If you are fast on the trigger, you should be able to take them out before they can rob you of all your health. Once you kill Hanzou, they will leave you their goggles.

Keep going right to meet Nene. She begs you to mercifully end her life. Whether you choose to kill her or not, keep going right and head into the teacher’s lounge. There is a huge fire blocking the doorway. Use the fire extinguisher that you picked up earlier to put out the blazes. But wait! The door’s locked! Hmm… go back to the classroom you started out in, and put on the night-vision goggles. Grab the now-visible key and go back to the locked door. Use the key, go through the locked door, and get ready for the Final Boss!

Pico finally faces Cassandra for the finale.

After a little smack-talk between Pico and Cassandra, the latter will kill her goth-kid cronies and transform into a huge alien monster. Cassandra has three primary methods of attack. The first attack is to throw an explosive barrel your way, which she does whenever she moves all the way to the left, where the barrels are. Shoot it out of the air, but don’t let it get too close before doing so. The second attack is to fire twin swastika blasts from her eyes, which cannot be shot out of the air, but which you can see coming by her eyes charging up. Shoot her in the eyes to nip this attack in the bud. Finally, when Cassandra gets down to certain points of her life bar, she’ll stomp on the ground like a sumo wrestler and send a chunk of the ceiling crashing down, which you will need to shoot out of the air. To defeat her, concentrate your fire on the «purple thing» (if you know what I mean) between her legs after shooting her in the eyes, while keeping your eyes open for her other big attacks, repeating the process until you bring her down and save the day.

Ending

The ending takes place six months after Pico defeats Cassandra. Pico’s dead teacher has been replaced by Mr. Flacit, who tells him that they found new students to replace the dead ones, and they’re bussing them in from the ghetto. Shortly afterwards, the Ghettobots appear in the classroom and Pico takes out his assault rifle. The game then ends on a black screen with «THE END.».

Gallery

Pico as he appears in Pico’s School.

Pico grinning as seen on the old Newgrounds logo and Pico’s World.

Pico with an M16 in Pico’s School and Pico vs. Bear.

Pico shooting his M16.

An unused asset of Pico from Pico vs. Bear.

Pico and Cassandra taking a Medicinal Herb.

Pico sitting in Pico vs. Überkids and Pico Roulette.

Pico after a tie in Pico Roulette.

Pico after losing in Pico Roulette.

Pico after winning in Pico Roulette.

Pico’s idle animation, from Pico 2.

Pico walking, from Pico 2.

Ditto, but from the front.

Ditto, but in a 3/4 view (front).

Ditto, but in a 3/4 view (back).

Ditto, but from the back.

Pico running, from Pico 2.

Ditto, but from the front.

Ditto, but from the back.

Pico breakdancing, from Pico 2.

Pico holding an AK-47 in Pico 2, Resident Pico, and Newgrounds Rumble.

Pico’s speech icon from Pico 2 and Resident Pico.

Pico’s speech icon (scared) from Pico 2.

Pico breakdancing, from Resident Pico.

Pico being decapitated in Resident Pico and Newgrounds Rumble.

Pico in Newgrounds Rumble.

Pico in Pico’s Cousin 2.

Pico in Pico’s School DX.

Clay Pico from Pico’s Sç̕h͊͜ọ̊ő̥l̨̉.

Clay Pico frowning.

Pico as he appears in Friday Night Funkin’.

Pico as he appears in Week 5 of Friday Night Funkin’.

Pico as he appears in Week 7 of Friday Night Funkin’.

Pico as he appeared on the 2001 Newgrounds rating system.

Pico as he appeared on the 2006 Newgrounds rating system.

An old Pico wallpaper created by Tom Fulp.

Concept art of Pico as seen in Pico’s School by Tom Fulp.

Anime Pico concept art by Ryan Wooffindin.

Pico concept art created by Zeebarf.

Older Pico concept art by MindChamber.

Pico concept art created by MindChamber.

Concept art for a Pico figurine by MindChamber.

Another concept art for a Pico figurine by MindChamber.

Pico flexing his cash.

Nene giving a cake to Pico in Pico Day (2006) artwork.

Pico and Nene.

Pico’s render for Indie Game Battle.

Pico’s bio.

Pico appearing alongside the Newgrounds (2000) logo.

Newgrounds (2004)

Pico (right) with Piconjo.

Pico shooting Nene.

Pico shooting Nene a second time.

Pico in Resident Pico shooting a zombie.

Pico in the cancelled Pico 2.

Pico in the unfinished DJ minigame.

Pico faces off against Roc in the subway.

Pico’s ending in Newgrounds Rumble.

Pico, Cassandra, and Boyfriend in Pico’s School: Love Conquers All.

Pico and Cassandra in Pico’s School: Love Conquers All.

From Pico’s School, Pico vs. Bear, and Pico vs. Überkids.

From Pico’s School.

From Pico vs. Bear.

From Pico vs. Überkids.

From Pico’s World.

From Pico’s School DX.

From Week 7 of Friday Night Funkin’.

Прохождение

Игра начинается с того, что Пико в классе изучает яблоки и бананы, прежде чем Кассандра приходит и стреляет в класс, убивая всех, кроме Пико. Выйдите из класса и идите направо. Возьмите огнетушитель со стены, потому что он вам понадобится позже. Затем продолжайте идти прямо, пока не увидите офис уборщика.

Зайди внутрь и возьмите штурмовую винтовку со стола. Идите еще раз направо, чтобы встретиться с дружком Кассандры по имени Циклоп. Выбейте пистолет из его рук, а затем решите сохранить ему жизнь или убить его. В любом случае, возвращайтесь к двери, из-за которой вы слышали стрельбу. Кассандра внутри, вместе с мальчиком-экстрасенсом по имени Алукард.

У Алукарда есть телекинетический щит, который блокирует пули Пико, поэтому стрельба в него ничего не дает, когда он поднят. Его основной метод атаки-бросать в вас мертвых детей, которых вам нужно будет взорвать в воздухе. Его основная схема состоит в том, чтобы бросить одного ребенка высоко, одного ребенка среднего роста и одного низко. Взорвите их в воздухе в таком порядке, и Алукард отвлечется и опустит свой щит. Это твой намек, чтобы взорвать его. Как только Алукард израсходует половину своей энергии, он уронит на вас стул, который вы тоже должны взорвать в воздухе. Продолжайте повторять этот процесс до тех пор, пока счетчик энергии Алукарда не опустится полностью. Когда это произойдет, он потеряет контроль над своими силами и притянет к себе всю мебель в комнате, как магнит. Как только он будет побежден, Алукард даст вам свой школьный ключ и скажет, чтобы вы оставили его в покое. Вы можете либо оставить его после того, как заберете ключ, либо вы можете взорвать мебель и прикончить его.

Выйдите из комнаты и идите направо, пока не дойдете до ворот, расположенных в середине коридора. Нажмите на ключ в инвентаре, чтобы поднять ворота. Затем идите в ванную комнату девушки, чтобы начать следующую битву с боссом.

Свет гаснет, и ребенок с очень страшным мечом и очками ночного видения нападает на вас. Это Ханзоу. Победить его относительно просто — его путь прослеживается красным блеском его очков. Следуйте за ярким светом и взрывайте его, когда он движется по комнате. Если вы быстро нажмете на спусковой крючок, вы должны быть в состоянии убрать его, прежде чем он сможет лишить вас всего вашего здоровья. Как только ты убьешь Ханзоу, он оставит тебе свои очки.

Продолжай идти прямо навстречу Нене. Она умоляет вас милосердно покончить с ее жизнью. Независимо от того, решишь ты убить ее или нет, продолжай идти направо и направляйся в учительскую. Огромный огонь загораживает дверной проем. Используйте огнетушитель, который вы подобрали ранее, чтобы потушить пламя. Но подождите! Дверь заперта! Хм… вернитесь в класс, в котором вы начинали, и наденьте очки ночного видения. Возьмите теперь видимый ключ и вернитесь к запертой двери. Используйте ключ, пройдите через запертую дверь и приготовьтесь к Финальному боссу!

После небольшого разговора между Пико и Кассандрой, последняя убьет своих дружков-готов и превратится в огромного инопланетного монстра. У Кассандры есть три основных метода атаки. Первая атака состоит в том, чтобы бросить бочку со взрывчаткой в вашу сторону, что она делает всякий раз, когда движется влево, где находятся бочки. Стреляйте в него с воздуха, но не позволяйте ему подойти слишком близко, прежде чем сделать это. Вторая атака состоит в том, чтобы выстрелить двумя взрывами свастики из ее глаз, которые не могут быть выпущены из воздуха, но которые вы можете увидеть, когда ее глаза заряжаются. Стреляйте ей в глаза, чтобы пресечь эту атаку в зародыше. Наконец, когда Кассандра доберется до определенных точек своей жизни, она будет топать по земле, как борец сумо, и обрушит кусок потолка, который вам нужно будет выстрелить в воздух. Чтобы победить ее, сконцентрируйте свой огонь на «фиолетовой штуке» между ног после выстрела ей в глаза, сохраняя глаза открытыми для других ее больших атак, повторяя процесс до тех пор, пока вы не убьете ее и не спасете положение.

Окончание:

Финал происходит через шесть месяцев после того, как Пико побеждает Кассандру. Мертвого учителя Пико заменил мистер Флакит, который говорит ему, что они нашли новых учеников, чтобы заменить мертвых, и они доставляют их из гетто. Вскоре после этого в классе появляются геттоботы, и Пико достает свою штурмовую винтовку. Затем игра заканчивается на черном экране с надписью «КОНЕЦ».

Trivia

• In Pico’s World, an old Flash hub by Tom Fulp, many facts about Pico are listed:
  • Pico is a wannabe DJ.
    • Cyclops briefly mentions in Pico’s School that Pico listens to techno music.
    • In Pico 2, Pico’s interest in DJing is a plot point, and he regularly practices on the turntables with his best friend Darnell.
  • He has obsessive behavior.
  • Pico is an insomniac.
  • Pico is homicidal.
  • Pico has an IQ of 127. An IQ of 127 is classed as above average, meaning Pico is intelligent.
  • Pico is schizophrenic.
• Pico is American and lives in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Pico’s birthday is April 30th.
• Pico has non-canonically died a total of 3 times in the official Pico series:
  • Pico vs. Überkids — can shoot himself.
  • Pico Roulette — can shoot himself.
  • UFA — dies of old age.
• Pico was created to be the mascot of Newgrounds in 1999, but was phased out by Tankman in 2006.

• Pico from Cosmic Fantasy 2 (1992), the character that inspired Pico’s name.

  Pico was originally named Pogo, but Tom Fulp

  Pico was named after the Cosmic Fantasy 2 character Pico, an anthropomorphic talking black cat from another planet.

  quickly changed it to Pico upon discovering the URL Pogo.com was in use.

• Pico smokes marijuana, as seen in Pico’s School.
• Upon clicking a car in an old demo for Pico 2 developed by Tom Fulp, Pico says «My dad loves that car more than he loves me! I hope he crashes the damn thing into a brick wall!»
• Tom Fulp has confirmed that some of Pico’s favorite music artists are Joy Division, Gary Numan, Natural Born Chillers, and The Cure.

  In Pico’s School: Love Conquers All, Pico mentions that he listens to Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, KMFDM, and Green Day.

• It was speculated on Newgrounds for years that Pico and his friends were around 10-14 years old, but Tom Fulp confirmed that all the major characters in Pico’s School are high school seniors (around 16-18 years old) in the comment section of his blog post, Pico Jams.
• When asked about what subjects the Pico School characters would major in if they entered college, Fulp replied that Pico would major in computer science.