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.
You've.........spoken like you were me!
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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.
The key is to keep your party members alive. Sure, you can only carry 100 pounds by yourself, but with a full party, it's more like 500.
I played the original on my school's Apple II computers from time to time until they upgraded all of them... in '98. After that, I got Oregon Trail 2 for my home computer so I'd have a chance of making it to the end, and I think I even made it to Oregon on a farmer's budget with all five people named after variations on "I am awesome" alive once. I lost interest in the ones after that. Got too complicated and in-depth to simply pick up and be edu-tained.
Used to play the DOS PC version at the local library. I was never able to reach Oregon in the original. The whole party would always catch some disease and eventually die some days later. I also remember playing Amazon Trail (not that fun) and Yukon Trail (navigating the river was a bitch, damn rocks and whirlpools), then bought Oregon Trail II when it came out. It was annoying getting all the way to California, nothing going wrong the whole trip, only to make less then $1000 from digging for gold.
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*shakes his cane* We didn't even have computers at school until I was in 7th grade. After that, Oregon Trail was the most sophisticated game the media center had, and I ruled it perhaps a little too much. Once I could reliably shoot the wagon down the rapids I knew it was time to move on.
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I had access to Oregon trail, but my class as a group never used it. Which was just as well, because as far as I could tell, it looked relatively boring.
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RThurmont wrote:I had access to Oregon trail, but my class as a group never used it. Which was just as well, because as far as I could tell, it looked relatively boring.
Holy crap I can't believe that it was so popular... ah, 3rd grade memories. I could never finish the game, somehow I could always accidentally kill off every single family member, mostly from drowning.
ArmorPierce wrote:That and some game about being fishes.
Would that game be Adell Down Under?
I wanna say Odell Lake or something like that, but it has been a hell of a long time.
Anyway, yes, Oregon Trail owned. When your party finally wiped it would save your tombstone to the floppy for other players to view when they came to it. So kids would intentionally kill their parties and then input childish obscenities for their epitaph.
"You have shot 4700 pounds of meat, unfortunately you can only carry 100 pounds back to the wagon."
Fuck yes.
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This sounds like Cook's Endeavour! Cause I'm totally Australian, not American, the dodgey historial simulation *I* played in primary school was a 'get ye boat to Oostraliah and totally look at Venus'. People constantly tried to go the 'other' way (ie, around America instead of Africa) and I tried to find the Northwest Passage instead of Australia. The use of rum and wooden boards to quell mutinies was always a bit odd, though.
Oregon Trail? The original? You know I loved it!! It was outstanding for its time, and I would still play it today, if I could find out where to get it at. I recall a few things about it, such as setting the food budget: Generous, or bare bones meals, having my wagon wheel stolen, Indians, all the girls in class spending half our playing time deciding how many people to bring with them etc...
A great game.
It's a game that's received probably more remakes, ports, and sequels than any other. I think I've played at least half of them over the years, and they all sucked compared to the original Apple IIe version. Either something was missing, or something was changed and screwed up, or it just didn't have the same feel.
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All kinds of fun! My favorite part was dying repeatedly along the various parts of the game so that others could read my tombstones
"TEACHER! THE GAME JUST CALLED ME A FUCKFACE. WHATS A FUCKFACE?"
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The use of rum and wooden boards to quell mutinies was always a bit odd, though.
