The Oregon Trail

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2006-08-12 02:31am

So confess. How many of you have played The Oregon Trail? (the original one, not II or III or however many they made) How many of you truly enjoyed it?

I was first intruduced to this game when I was about 6 or 7. I didn't play the *really* old version on the apple IIs, I had a tricked-out Windows 95 version that had significantly better graphics and more options!

Tell us about your experiences!

Things I remember were:

nothing to shoot in the desert except squirrels!
getting cholera every 30 seconds or so
Finding abandoned wagons!
Those damn indians... how I hated them...

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2006-08-12 02:39am

Tuberculosis. Lots of tuberculosis.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-08-12 02:51am

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2006-08-12 03:30am

Ah hunting. Awesome stuff.

phred · Post by **phred** » 2006-08-12 03:49am

Ah Oregon trail. I played it in 4th? grade... i remember setting the pace to "grueling" and usually wiping my party out somwhere in the Rockies

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2006-08-12 04:47am

What I remember is that in 5th grade, I stubled across the Debug mode for the game, and proceded to delete all of the tombstones. Why my computer lab teacher discovered this, she demanded that I duplicate and record what I had done. Saddly, while I did both, I now forget what the Key Combination was (I had found it by banging on the keyboard).

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2006-08-12 07:08am

I rememeber that, i sucked at shooting the elk

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2006-08-12 07:12am

I slaughtered the Bison massively.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2006-08-12 07:18am

Many hours at the middle school's computer lab was devoted to Oregon Trail. Everything was pwned; squirrels, deer/elk, bison. You damn well name it and everyone survived.

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2006-08-12 10:04am

Every time I tried to ford a river, my wagon got overturned. And someone died. Someone always died. But we never burried them. Just left the corpse floating there.
Good times man.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2006-08-12 10:49am

Vehrec wrote:Every time I tried to ford a river, my wagon got overturned. And someone died. Someone always died. But we never burried them. Just left the corpse floating there.
Good times man.

Ah yes, fording rivers. Good times.

I remember I used to have competitions where everyone would see just how quickly they could kill off the entire party.

You know, I don't think I ever actually made it to Oregon...

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-08-12 11:27am

Used to play the Apple II version all the time in 2nd grade. Got pretty good at it, too. Eventually I'd make it to Oregon nearly every time.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2006-08-12 11:31am

You know, killing my party in that Virtual Apple version of it isn't as easy as I remember. Even on the grueling pace with bare bones rations I only killed off one family member and still made it to Oregon.

Of course then again I was kind trying this time, so maybe that's it. I didn't once flip my wagon though, even though I forded/caulked every time I hit a river.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-08-12 11:55am

I remember playing that thing on the Apple IIe at school for a good while. Most of the other people who were into computers there were pretty hooked on it as well.

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-08-12 12:01pm

I played a similar game in high school - except that it was about crossing the Blue Mountains (?) from the east coast to, umm, west of the mountains.

Never made it anywhere close.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2006-08-12 12:07pm

where can I find the game?

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2006-08-12 12:09pm

I remember playing that game. It was the one major game in computer lab class that everyone would play. That and some game about being fishes.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-08-12 12:52pm

Enigma wrote:where can I find the game?

Most any abandonware site will likely have it. That's all I'll say on the matter.

Spookster · Post by **Spookster** » 2006-08-12 02:51pm

Oh yeah.. I remember the good old Apple II version.. those were the days.. Killing off little suzie, and reminding myself "lead ahead with the bison". Lol to show my true age, we played Oregon Trail in early grade school, and in 7th grade we had the "new" Mac IIcx.. Weee! If only programming was still as easy as it was on the over gloried calculators.
Now.. back to my wheelchair...

EnsGabe · Post by **EnsGabe** » 2006-08-12 03:01pm

ArmorPierce wrote:That and some game about being fishes.

Would that game be Adell Down Under?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2006-08-12 03:41pm

MKSheppard wrote:I slaughtered the Bison massively.

The key is to buy about 10,000 bullets at the start (a ridiculous amount you'll never use) and then walk into the middle of any forest and spin around, unloading your colonial ass musket like a machine gun into the all the wild life around you. The only thing is, it's a complete gyp that you can only carry 100 pounds of meat back with you no matter what. You'd have thought a fucking meteor hit and wiped out all life in this wilderness with all the corpses lying around going to waste.

Rivers were great... the ultimate 'no fucking duh' death trap. Would you like to A.) Take a raft across to safety or B.) Ride right into the goddamn thing and pray.

Archon · Post by **Archon** » 2006-08-12 03:58pm

Banker from Boston, anybody?

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-08-12 04:12pm

Yeah, I played that game.

Kind of pointless. I already live in Oregon

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Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-08-12 04:17pm

Pick wrote:Yeah, I played that game.

Kind of pointless. I already live in Oregon .

OMG, you won!

I remember playing that game a good deal in second and third grade, although I seem to recall mostly playing the updated versions. Of course, as a symptom of only really playing it at school, I don't think I ever actually won.

phred · Post by **phred** » 2006-08-12 04:55pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote: Rivers were great... the ultimate 'no fucking duh' death trap. Would you like to A.) Take a raft across to safety or B.) Ride right into the goddamn thing and pray.

as I recall that was a major obstacle to me ever actually making it. Im surprised that there were any rivers left after all the crap I dumped into them