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Found this the other day. Thought some of you older Dakkites might appreciate it:

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Sweet!

You are a champion, my good sir.

Anyone know where we can find any of the newer ones online like this?

Sweet, sweet memories.

I was just thinking about this game the other day. Thanks for the link.

I don't even need to click it to know that bad-boy!

fething awesome game!!

Cool game.

I dont get it, is there some underlying joke?

This just seems like a rather dull little txt based adventure game to me.

Jin wrote:Found this the other day. Thought some of you older Dakkites might appreciate it:

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Awwww you basterd! I used to love that game big time. I saw your link, and just had to play through. I even got in the top ten! HURRAY FOR MEE!!!!

LuciusAR wrote:I dont get it, is there some underlying joke?

This just seems like a rather dull little txt based adventure game to me.

It's no joke, let me assure you.

Kids these days!

How old are you, if I may ask? That might make things a bit clearer.

I remember the far more advanced one.

You could buy different types of food, like meat or cheese. And you could get a shot gun.

yeah,
that was awesome.
I traveled with a friend matt, my brother Patrick and GirlFriend Sophie and sister Emer...

matt and patrick drowned..
emer got measles and died..
sophie (GF) broke both arms got measles and fever and dysentary and died..

but I made it to oregon and scored 768pts, Yay me...

Panic...

I had the same person break their arm three times. Three times! Then one died of, dun dun dun duh; dysentery!

Thankfully, everyone else made it!



What a way to go?!?! Deadly diarrhea. Yikes!

LuciusAR wrote:I dont get it, is there some underlying joke?

This just seems like a rather dull little txt based adventure game to me.

Oh man, apparently you missed out on the old Apple IIe days.


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Panic wrote:yeah,
that was awesome.
I traveled with a friend matt, my brother Patrick and GirlFriend Sophie and sister Emer...

matt and patrick drowned..
emer got measles and died..
sophie (GF) broke both arms got measles and fever and dysentary and died..

but I made it to oregon and scored 768pts, Yay me...

Panic...

I managed to actually beat the damn game as a Farmer (apparently 3x points) with everyone alive by the end of the trip (Took the River at the end and made it down with no crashes for the first time ever). I think I ended with something like 2450pts or so. I felt like a champ (Meager rations are where it's at).

yeah..
that was my first ever game and It was a blast.
(thanx for the link)

I'll try again...
I will do better....
hopefully more of my family will make it!

Panic...

On a side note:

Odell Lake is nowhere near as fun as I remember it being ~ 16-17 years ago.

I made it through, and got 2nd place! I'm still Oregon awesome!

That game was a lot harder when I was 9...

That was really fun. Thanks for the link.

Hordini wrote:

It's no joke, let me assure you.

Kids these days!

How old are you, if I may ask? That might make things a bit clearer.

I'm actually 30 but I've never owned an Apple.

So the idea behind the game is just to make it in one piece?

Collecting diseases is half the fun.

LuciusAR wrote:

Hordini wrote:

It's no joke, let me assure you.

Kids these days!

How old are you, if I may ask? That might make things a bit clearer.

I'm actually 30 but I've never owned an Apple.

So the idea behind the game is just to make it in one piece?

It was also mildy educational, especially if you talk to people a lot. I remember playing it in school.

BrookM wrote:Collecting diseases is half the fun.

In life AND in video games!


@LuciusAR:

Basically, yes, the premise is to make it to the Oregon Valley in tact. What makes this difficult is that it's incredibly frustrating to keep your party in good health, people seem to constantly get diseases and other injuries arbitrarily and your end score is based on a variety of factors such as 'How Many People survived', 'How Much Cash Do you Have Left', 'How much supply stuffs Do You Still Have', 'Health of Party', 'Time taken to arrive', etc. Granted, most of the time, all people cared about was hunting.

The game was, for all intents and purposes, supposed to be edu-tainment. If you stop at every location and look around and talk to people (as Mattlov mentioned), you were supposed to learn a bit about the trials of pioneers in the 1800's moving on west through the aptly named Oregon Trail. Considering this game was made around the mid-late 1980's and its mild educational value, it tended to be one of the few games that schools would/could let students play on their Apple IIe computers/computer labs (I don't recall there being PC labs until at least the mid 90's). That being said, playing it now, the game is really crappy, for many very obvious reasons. However, its main draw now is its nostalgic value, and the fact that even now, it's really frickin' hard to get through it successfully with a very high score.

It's amazing how I'm willing to put off playing new games like HL2, et al, and spend a couple of hours trying to get a higher score on this silly blast from the past.

This must be a generational thing, as I remember playing the game in the lab when in elementary school/junior high and being quite fond of it. My favorite part was the river rafting thing toward the end of the trail. There was another game I played around that time which involved using a pac-man like avatar to gobble up numbers that were the correct answer to a mathematical expression. I think it was called number cruncher or something like that.

Number Munchers! YES! I used to play that game in school all the time! I can't believe I forgot about it! There was also Word Munchers, which was also cool.

I really enjoyed Mario Teaches Typing too, although I didn't actually learn to type decently until I played Rafiki Teaches Typing.

Hordini wrote:Number Munchers! YES! I used to play that game in school all the time! I can't believe I forgot about it! There was also Word Munchers, which was also cool.

I really enjoyed Mario Teaches Typing too, although I didn't actually learn to type decently until I played Rafiki Teaches Typing.

I learned touch typing from Paws the cat.

Oregon Trail was solid, but Carmen Sandiago was where it was at (albeit a few years later).

Janthkin wrote:

Hordini wrote:Number Munchers! YES! I used to play that game in school all the time! I can't believe I forgot about it! There was also Word Munchers, which was also cool.

I really enjoyed Mario Teaches Typing too, although I didn't actually learn to type decently until I played Rafiki Teaches Typing.

I learned touch typing from Paws the cat.

Oregon Trail was solid, but Carmen Sandiago was where it was at (albeit a few years later).

It was always Oregon Trail and the number game for me. Did any of the rest of you play around with a drawing program that had a rudimentary programming language with which you could make little games? I believe it was called logowriter or something like that.

Grignard wrote:

Janthkin wrote:

Hordini wrote:Number Munchers! YES! I used to play that game in school all the time! I can't believe I forgot about it! There was also Word Munchers, which was also cool.

I really enjoyed Mario Teaches Typing too, although I didn't actually learn to type decently until I played Rafiki Teaches Typing.

I learned touch typing from Paws the cat.

Oregon Trail was solid, but Carmen Sandiago was where it was at (albeit a few years later).

It was always Oregon Trail and the number game for me. Did any of the rest of you play around with a drawing program that had a rudimentary programming language with which you could make little games? I believe it was called logowriter or something like that.

Logowriter is awesome. Incidentally, (the board game) Robo Rally is exactly the same thing, but with lasers. The only people I know who are good at Robo Rally recognize this fact immediately.

I remember playing Balance of Power.