Ah, Sweet Oregon Trail (3061 hits)
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Submitted by oicur12 <lindserella_0918.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-06-16 21:36:54 EDT
Remember Oregon Trail? Not that one kids today have, the original, the one we played with 97 floppy disks that needed to be changed every 3 minutes? God, I miss that. The frustration of trying to hunt deer moving across the screen at just slightly below the speed of light with a mouse that moves like a syphilitic French whore with broken ankles. The brain-melting hours spent squinting at the screen, so that when you finally rise you feel like two demonic hedgehogs have just crawled directly up your ass and are holding a Dance Dance Revolution tournament. Good Times.
Kids today have it too easy, what with their ergonomically designed videogame controllers that mould to the palms like a bottle of the sweet, sweet nectar of life known as beer. I know we all still have scars from the razor-sharp edges of our Atari and NES controllers. Oh, the tragedy, remember how your fingers would be numb for a few hours after your mom screeched like a dying banshee that if you didn't stop playing that bloody game she'd crush you like the unappealingly loud little insect you were?
Just a little nostalgia as I near the end of my youth. Those were happy days, indeed.
User Reviews
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-01-26 15:45:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Dr_Teeth (user info) at 2004-10-02 08:17:05 (#)
Ranking: 2
I still have my Atari 2600 and all of the game cartridges.
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I do too! - It'll be cool to be a crotchety ol' grandpa someday and show my grandkids how we did it OLD SCHOOL....
Submitted by Kent_Weirdo (user info) at 2005-01-26 15:34:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Who could ever forget Oregon Trail?
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-01-26 15:23:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
That game was awesome.
Submitted by SpikeGoddess (user info) at 2004-11-29 02:46:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
A crazy amazing girl I went to acting school with has created a play based on the Oregon Trail. If any of you are in NYC you should see it. They did "Saved by the Bell: The Musical" and a version of "Goonies" which they took to the fringe festival and won "Best Ensemble."
Submitted by Tigre (user info) at 2004-11-29 02:28:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I loved that game. I'd have to reinstall it like 4 times a week. I spent about nine hours installing it everytime, but it was worth it to watch my brother eat spoiled meat.
Good times..
I still have the scars too.
Fucking pong.
Submitted by dwr_budr (user info) at 2004-11-29 02:11:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Spy's Demise was the best game ever.
Submitted by Creepy_guy (user info) at 2004-11-29 02:04:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh man, I remember this stuff... There were three that we played though. There was Oregon Trail of course, as well as Odelle Lake and Number Munchers. I was the king of Number Munchers...that game kicked ass.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2004-11-29 02:00:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Sweet Jesus, how accurate this was. Not to mention all the comments. Brought back memories. Scary ones. Just five more minutes!!!! Daaaaammmiiittt! Forge! Forge!
Submitted by FreshPrince (user info) at 2004-11-29 01:42:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
How old are you?
Submitted by Dr_Teeth (user info) at 2004-10-02 08:17:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I still have my Atari 2600 and all of the game cartridges. My NES drowned in a flood.
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2004-10-02 07:55:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I just recently bought a copy of it out of some burst of whimsy (and the fact that I never did get to the end back in the day), and it was a little sad. They changed everything. Now your traveling partners are really bad actors pretending to be the characters, and they actually talk to you. All these bells and whistles kind of make it too different.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-10-02 07:41:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I was hoping this was about the game, and I was right! Whenever I was pissed off at people I would make them characters and let them die of dystentery. Ohh, that was awesome.
Oregon Trail ranks right up there with old school Sim City for me...where you had to make little blocks of residential, commercial or industrial zone? And then you had natural disasters you could make ravage the city, and your choices were earthquake, tornado, and a Godzilla style monster? Oh man. Oh man. And the roads would get little cars on them? Oh man. Awesome.
Submitted by CaptainAmik (user info) at 2004-10-02 07:14:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for the Odelle Lake comment...christ that brings me back, grade 5, when I though that a chub was just some sort of fish, dammit I was so naive. I think I just had a breakthrough, I need a shower...I feel so dirty
Submitted by Simpsonsfreak (user info) at 2004-09-13 20:12:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hahahaha I joined just to rate this. Im going to read all your stuff. +2 +2 +2 woo!
Submitted by reallybored (user info) at 2004-06-17 12:37:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Awesome game, but just like another poster i never had time to finish that game. I could download it of the net, but that would feel like cheating.
Submitted by Random Joe <IkoIkoAne.at.folkrock.com> at 2004-06-17 10:59:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I LOVED That game! Hell yes, though I always died or had my next class. I think I finished like twice in three years.
Submitted by CleverName (user info) at 2004-06-17 09:49:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh, what a great game that was!
Always ford the river!
Submitted by Oleannder (user info) at 2004-06-17 09:45:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I still have that game. But I always lose a member of my family to dysentry. DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by runninginplace (user info) at 2004-06-17 09:37:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I loved that game. Of course in my school we got to play it during "computer class". The damn class always lasted long enough to get to the columbia river but never all the way to walla walla or whatever the fuck it was. I hated having to go to some other stupid class when all I needed was 5 more minutes to finish.
Submitted by Pittdude (user info) at 2004-06-17 09:35:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I played that game for hours and hours
Submitted by Homsar (user info) at 2004-06-17 08:55:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Quick, ford the river so we can cross, its almost October! Oh fuck, little suzy has been stricken with malaria. Curse you Tandy 1000!!!
I loved that game.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-06-17 08:31:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I remember playing that like 20 years ago.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2004-06-17 04:48:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
besides Oregon Trail, there was a game I used to play that involved a diver who went around opening up oysters and getting pearls and other stupid shit. It was a spelling game, and you had to gather up letters or something. Whoever remembers the name gets a cookie from me.
Submitted by DavyJones (user info) at 2004-06-17 04:38:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I remember playing the original oregon trail on IIGS(i think that was the model anyway...) Apple computers at school. Didn't even have a mouse. Between that, and Odelle Lake...ah, good times.
Submitted by Scotsman (user info) at 2004-06-17 04:20:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh crap!!! I remember that!! Sitting there in a classroom all huddled round a ZX Spectrum. Jebus! I had not thought of that for ages.
One thing I find funny is that I was willing to wait 5 - 10 minutes for a game to load by tape on the Spectrum or C64 and yet if an internet page takes more than 5 seconds to load I get impatient....how times have changed!
Submitted by shadowdragon (user info) at 2004-06-17 03:37:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
First grade went by much more smoothly thanks to good old Oregon Trail. They came out with a few sequels on CDs, but it's just not the same.
You killed 29,400 pounds of meat, but you can only bring back 2,000!
http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/otrail.shtml
Submitted by Electro (user info) at 2004-06-17 03:15:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
How did ye know I lived in oregon?
Yep, played it in middle school, it was great...
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2004-06-17 02:57:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I played Oregon Trail every day in 5th grade. Our teacher was like on crack or something, and always had to leave the class for a minute, so I just screwed around on the computer while he was gone, as did everyone else. Ah, back in the day.
Submitted by cnympho247 (user info) at 2004-06-17 01:51:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ahh I remember that game. I played it in my middle school computer lab days. When they said we could play it I jumped for joy. I only won one time in my Oregon Trail game but it was a lot of fun.
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2004-06-17 01:04:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Know what other game was awesome yet irritating to no end? Indy 3. The old LucasArts game based on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It looked just like Monkey Island 1 and 2. That game was awesome, but I could never get past the castle on my own. There were too many nazis! That damn guy with all the medals was a pain in the ass to fight!
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-06-17 01:02:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Holy shit, I thought I was the only person to ever get frustrated by that game when I was 7.
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2004-06-17 00:53:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I remember playing that in the public library when i was a little kid! Before I knew about the internet, even...
I pwned it...the columbia river was a bitch to navigate though.
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2004-06-17 00:35:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh, and Oregon Trail was awesome, even if it always seemed like my family was dying of snake bites and I never guessed right on the draft of the river we were crossing.
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2004-06-17 00:34:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Don't bad moputh newer games to much, I'll never forget the blisters I got from playing Mario Party 1 on N64. Damn those rotating control stick games!
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2004-06-16 23:54:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by skatastrophy (user info) at 2004-06-16 23:12:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
Fishtits, you should just pay for the ferry, its not like youll need the exta 5 bucks when you get to oregon anyway.
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That is so random if you read it before you read the rest of the comments.
Submitted by atz (user info) at 2004-06-16 23:38:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Kill the buffalo. They weigh something like 900 pounds.
Submitted by transcendent (user info) at 2004-06-16 23:30:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I would spend hours hunting for food just because it was the best part of the game.
Fuck crossing the rivers, I'd always lose all my shit or die.
But great game. +2
Submitted by Rixes (user info) at 2004-06-16 23:17:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I forgot about that game, it was the shit back in the day. +2
Submitted by skatastrophy (user info) at 2004-06-16 23:12:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fishtits, you should just pay for the ferry, its not like youll need the exta 5 bucks when you get to oregon anyway. I played that game every day until i did every single variable, hunted every single background and crossed the country with the minimum food allowance, the least amout of oxen and the most possible bullets
Submitted by Fishtits (user info) at 2004-06-16 22:58:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
At least you could get some-fucking-where. I couldn't even cross the friggin rivers. My damn
wagon kept on sinking. Gameboy fucked my vision, SNES helped me devlop my anti-social behavior
and PS2 helped me almost drop out of college. All in all it was pretty fun shit.
Submitted by conrad (user info) at 2004-06-16 22:50:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
No Comment
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-06-16 22:00:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Why a re zeros not making a difference to the ratings on some posts. This is rating 2 even though it has a zero and a 2 rating.
Someone has fucked the algorythm??????
Anyway have another 0 cause I am a crotchety old bastard who never had video games when I was young. We had to play OUTSIDE and instead of shooting electrons at some cyber figure we actually got to throw rocks at each other and beat each other up in reality.
You know that space outside the box...............
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-06-16 21:57:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Not quite 97 disks...
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2004-06-16 21:53:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
heh, yeah, I know what that's like. I always named my guy 'Assjabber McJones' until the teachers found out. those bitches have no sense of humour
Submitted by RideJohnnyRide (user info) at 2004-06-16 21:44:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I HAD TO STAY AFTER SCHOOL BECAUSE OF THAT GAME IN 2ND GRADE.
When I died I made my tombstone message say "Hug my dick." Some little bitch ratted me out and Ms Silverman was all like GRR.