Remember The Oregon Trail?

[Liquidize105]

Yea, me neither.

Just kidding. I bet more than half of our readers would remember the "edutainment classic" The Oregen Trail.

Scroll down on this page (http://www1.collegehumor.com/newsletter/165/), and right below the Hostess wedding cake is a list of Q&As between "mother's 3rd grade class" and the creators of The Oregen Trail.


What are the dirtiest words you've ever used for your team names?
Don: In the Apple version, if somebody died, you were asked to type in what you would like on the tombstone, and that was an opportunity for kids to practice all the bad words that they knew.
Bill: We have probably expressed obscenities over the fact that at the time the game was invented, nobody knew about software royalties. If we had, we’d each own an island today.
Children's questions are so innocent. Anyway, The Oregon Trail!

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[A-Team]

lol. First of all, I'd like to declare this the best post ever made between 1:48 AM and 1:50 AM.

Secondly, I'd like to thank the developers behind Oregon Trail and Steve Jobs for the Apple II.

[Dirty Harry]

POW!!!!!!!! i used to kill alot then my family died and i lived, twas a great time.

[Kyle Jones]

Living in Oregon means that every macintosh computer in the state is required by law to have that game installed. I must've played it a million times in grade school.

I always died of dysentary.

[A-Team]

We need to celebrate our roots by doing something special with the Oregon Trail post.

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[Stooby]

Ah yes, I remember playing this game in the public library. We would try to die so we could put dirty words on the gravestone. Then we would spend the next half hour scared that the librarian would find out about it and tell our parents.

[ezzkmo]

ha, oregon trail on the good ol' apples. flippin' classic!

[jacob.armitage]

Ha! i remember playing that way back in school on the old apples, crazy.

[jeffool]

Are you kidding? My friends and I went throught the fit of playing this game again just last year. I went with the names I went with since childhood: Someone, Noone, Everyone, Guy, and Dude.

"Noone has died of dysentery."

Whew, that's good news!

[Furious Wang]

Goddamn Cholera

[outontheporch]

dude! i remember my friend would always get cholera and die. also i sucked at the hunting part.

[Adam Blue]

man. i loved this game. but i dont remember a lot of it.

[Adewade]

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[Rirath]

Ah yes, remember back when Edutainment was FUN? Heck... I couldn't tell you how much I played this, Number Munchers, and let's not forget Math Blaster. Good times.

[Morrolan]

I was raised on this shit. Weaned. 'Computer class' was simply 'play Oregon Trail and/or Museum Madness.'

I hated crossing rivers. I'd lose all my food. :(

The Yukon Trail was also a pretty good game, though it lost some of the original's charm. I swear, I could still find the best end-game gold mine.

[j00s]

Oregon Trail was the peak of all gaming.

MS, Sony, Nintendo, listen up: hunting + cholera = gaming gold.

[Thumper]

Remember the rapids at the end, that was so intense! This is one game I actually remember alongside you oldtimers. Playing it on the old green screen computers is one of the highlights of my elementary school memories.

[Gitaroomaan]

This game was played constantly in elementary school, oh man, the memories. As was noted, the Yukon Trail was pretty fun as well, and then there was also the Amazon Trail. I'm going to have to find my old discs and try to get some of these games working again...

[bapenguin]

All i remember was that river shit was hard as hell....

[TheEpicOfTyler]

I remember I woudl always kill 800lbs of food and only be able to take like 50 of it back to my wagon.

Good times.

[lpmiller]

I played the original text version on a teletype terminal (no screen, it printed off text on paper) using a 120 baud coupler modem to dial into the universaty mainframe.

damn I'm old.

I have a friend who played one of the prospectors in the early 90's version of the game.

[Crispy951]

god such good memories, oregan trail, yukon trail, amazon trail, word/math munchers, math blaster

it was the stuff i played when my mom said i had to study hehe

[Kyle Jones]

Anyone got a good luck to an emulator for this? I want to make my way to... erm... where I live.

I honestly think this game made my home state more famous than another other Oregon event. Ask the average person about Oregon and they say "I loved that Mac game, Oregon Trail!"

[mister_slim]

MS, Sony, Nintendo, listen up: hunting + cholera = gaming gold.
Check out Lost in Blue for the DS. I'm not sure if it has cholera, but it certainly should.

[AbeLincoln]

Ah yeah. Living in southern Washington it was a requriment for our school computers too. Sooo much wasted time playing this game. In junior high our math class would go to the lab and when we were done we with our assignments we could play. The teacher wasn't a big fan of hunting and so the students would message his computer with "Just shot bambi" To which he would respond by taking over their computer and shooting all the bullets into the ground. Tech savy teachers were so much fun.

[net7runner]

Personally, I'm getting one of these: http://www.bustedtees.com/product.php?name=dysentery

[dr_wily]

LOL I loved this game..

disco has died = classic!

oregon reprezent! nice to see people not from oregon enjoying this game.. our schools were a little hardcore in their oregon trail fever. I remember having to shake cream into butter..