O M G - Will This Thing Play - Oregon Trail?!?!?

[emil10001]

I'm 24. I remember playing the game at home with my brothers. I think I was always annoyed with the game, because it wasn't *that* fun, but it seemed to drag me in, and force me to try and get through it. One of those irritating games that you don't *want* to play, you *have* to. It was either that, or figure out how many ways we could kill our parties.

 

[MisterBrisby]

Heh, I am only 17 so I didn't get to see this awesome game .

You people are all old

:lol:
Not OLD - we are retro!

 

[chad78]

You people are all old
Not OLD - we are retro! (30 here) Right - we're just coming into our second teenagehood. (15+15=30)

 

[Chip]

One of the neat things about Oregon Trail is that when the leader of the party dies, you get to leave a tombstone on the side of the trail that future players can read. At my school, the trail was littered with "Here lies Buttface, died of snakebite" and whatnot. Every few months the teachers would go through all the game disks and erase the saved data to get rid of all the "graffiti", but they would be back almost immediately.

My school had Apple II machines until I hit 8th grade and they finally upgraded to the Macintosh LC. Luckily the LC was fully backwards compatible with Apple II software, so semi-obscene tombstones were still in abundance.

If you've missed out on this great game due to being too young or too European, you can play it in your browser here.

 

[Pickle]

How about HHGTTG?

Oh crap... I just had an epiphany of why the keyboard will make gaming so cool!

Please, please, PLEASE tell me someone will port Oregon Trail - or make an emu for one of the systems it was on.

Ive actually run the DOS version on the GP2X with dosbox, although the resolution is 640x400, so unless you used the zoom feature you couldnt read the screen. I gave up at that point.

 

[jmetal88]

Hmm... Actually... Now I'm thinking I could play the Hugo series on the go... But is that worth it? I'll have to think about it.

 

[Azure]

Haha, I loved the Oregon Trail. It'd be awesome if I could play it on the Pandora. I'm 19, though, so I grew up playing the Deluxe Version:

 

[Pickle]

Haha, I loved the Oregon Trail. It'd be awesome if I could play it on the Pandora. I'm 19, though, so I grew up playing the Deluxe Version:

That screen is from the same version I tried on the GP2X.
It will be playable on the Pandora, guaranteed.

 

[geo12]

Every day after lunch my friends and I would get a computer pass to go play Oregon Trail. Haven't played it since, I don't know if it could possibly be as much fun now.

 

[KRH]

On an semi-Related note, That gereral store guy looks exactly like one of Grusos avatars.

 

[PSyMastR]

Haha, I loved the Oregon Trail. It'd be awesome if I could play it on the Pandora. I'm 19, though, so I grew up playing the Deluxe Version:

I'm 19 as well, but I still played the original. Never even knew about the oregon trail.

That damn oregon trail 4 (or w/e one that had 4 cd's to play sucked... the original was the only good one)

Never beat the game, my friend did once, hehe.

 

[Cervante]

I beat it and im 24, at the end your cart thingy is placed on a raft & you have to doge rocks & crap as you go down the stream.

 

[Pickle]

Never beat the game, my friend did once, hehe.

Thats pretty sad...(unless you wanted everyone to die on purpose :rolleyes: )

 

[cherrycyanide]

I always liked Number Munchers. That would be awesome!

 

[WizardStan]

The most powerful handheld console ever created, and people are planning on using it to play 20+ year old games.
*slow clap*

 

[Kyo]

Well you could apply that logic to anything

Like take the internet for example:

A connection of everyone who wants in one gigantic network offering unlimited options, and people are using it to download manga porn.

 

[Pickle]

Another good one was the fish simulation game, here i just found it Odell Lake. Good times!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell_Lake_(computer_game)

 

[jhoff80]

That damn oregon trail 4 (or w/e one that had 4 cd's to play sucked... the original was the only good one)

Actually, Oregon Trail 2 was the best version of it as far as I'm concerned. Added in a ton more options really. Also, for people who care about the educational aspects of it (I don't) it also added in a ton of speech with random side characters who would talk about historical things from their perspective. From what I understand, the newest versions took this to an extreme and added in ridiculous cutscenes and stuff, but in 2 it was still pretty subtle but the extra options made it more fun.

 

[TaG]

I never played the game - being 'too European'. When I first saw the post I couldn't imagine there would be so much interest in a game that people played at school - we never played anything at school that I would ever want to play again, but that's our education system for you.

If it were ported I'd want to try it if only out of curiosity, but the details would be tiny. This could well be a problem with a number of potential ports.

 

[Kyo]

well you don't have to play it at the original size