The Oregon Trail

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

I was digging through my old files on my computer to find out that I still have The Oregon Trail on there! So I went and played a bit of it of it for a while and enjoyed it. Sure, someone died from dysentary, but so far, so good. I know pretty much everyone here has had to play this game. Anyone got any memories of the Trail?

[Guest Smues]

When I was in I think 3rd grade we'd always play Oregon Trail in the computer lab (aka the Apple II e room) and whenever someone died you'd try to leave the funniest or crudest thing you could think of then wait for someone else to find your tombstone.

[jwest27 0]

I usually just hunted the whole time I played that game. Poor woodland creatures....

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I was just reading about this game yesterday... how odd. It came up on the wikipedia entry for Don't Copy that Floppy.

[LJSexay 0]

wow... I really wanna play...

 

that's all we little kids would do once we were done with some schoolwork. We would all rush to the big ass Macintosh's in our class and play Oregon Trail, and see who could ferry the damn horses over the deep rivers. ahhh.. how we would always fail

[NoCalMike 0]

Mmeeeeeeemories.......yeah this was the elementary school game of choice.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I played Jeopardy/Classic Concentration/Wheel of Fortune/Family Feud in computer class.

 

Fun.

[Guest Princess Leena]

It was like the only game we had on our ghetto grammar school's computers. I just remember that I sucked at it.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

Number Muncher/Cruncher. Totally.

[Vampiro69 0]

How could you suck at it? All you had to do was make sure you didn't ford a river that was too deep and make sure you had enough food.

 

Also if you only played as a banker you were cheating as that was way to easy.

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

I loved the hunting bit - it was so 2d and cheap, I'd spend hours on that. A lot of it would spoil, but who cares?

 

Oregon Trail 3 - with the real people acting out parts - was also fun, though the wagon mates got really annoying. Cheesy overacting to the extreme.

 

Anyone try 4 or 5, or any of the other editions?

[Angel_Grace_Blue 0]

I only got up to OT2, but I did want the other versions.

 

I think my favorite memory from the first one was when everyone in the party died except for the leader, then food spoiled/ran out/was stolen, so the guy had to start killing oxen to eat. Of course, the oxen started to die/get stolen, so it became "Buy/trade for an ox, go five miles, kill the ox and eat it. Repeat." Sadly, the leader didn't make it to Oregon, but the guy survived on basically rancid ox meat for at least three months.

 

With OT2, I'd just try to kill all the bears. Those fuckers.

[Guest Smues]

Number Muncher/Cruncher. Totally.

 

Hell yes Number Munchers was the other huge game at my school. When you got bored of leaving dirty messages on tombstones it was time to prove what a math whiz you were. Chomp chomp.

[jwest27 0]

I seem to remember playing Yukon Trail a little bit. I think I got stuck in the main town and couldn't figure out what to do.

[Guest Arnold_OldSchool]

Number Muncher/Cruncher. Totally.

 

Quoted for truth

[TheTomster 0]

I remember the old Oregon Trail game, I use to play in elementry. I still got Oregon Trail 2 and Oregon Trail 5. Sitting up here on the shelf.

[David Blazenwing 0]

Oregon Trail was the original Grand Theft Auto. Only with oxen. And wagons. Still had the guns though.

 

I remember my friends and I staying in from recess just to play it. It took us months, but we finally managed to beat the game. Good freaking times.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Number Muncher/Cruncher. Totally.

 

Word Muncher > That noise

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

We had a kick ass lil fish game that was so simplistic and yet so many of us skipped recess to play it.

 

Big fish = press down to run

Lil Fish = press toward to eat.

 

That was the whole game.

[cabbageboy 0]

This is taking me back to elementary school. Who didn't play Oregon Trail and Number Munchers?

 

If I recall the game was screwed up at my school and it would prevent you from ever finishing the game. I could get to maybe the Snake River and then the game would screw up.

 

I'm baffled that elementary schools now try to teach kids all this stuff like typing and spreadsheets. It's funny because to me computer lab time is just time to have fun and play Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, or that one other hunting/wildlife game where I'd always get eaten by the Osprey. What was that game?

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

Number Muncher/Cruncher. Totally.

 

Fuck, you just reminded me of that game. It fucking rocked for one simple reason.... candy.

 

In the 6th grade, they had it on the old ass computers (one year before they upgraded to stuff with Windows and shit). Every Friday, we got a choice between Oregon and Number Cruncher, we all picked Number Cruncher, cause the teacher would give you choices of candy based on the points you racked up in that game. And holy shit was I good at that game. I would walk out of that classroom with hordes of candy. Sell some off for quarters, eat some, hand off the rest to friends. Good times, good times...

[Anya 0]

This game was the best thing about school back then.

 

A new Oregon Trial that played like KOTOR with the conversation trees and stuff would be incredible!

[alfdogg 0]

I have trials of the Number Munchers game and its offshoots on my computer. I could play those games for hours on end when I was a kid. I tried it just recently and got bored with it after about five minutes. Which should have been expected since, you know, I'm really too old for those games.

 

Is anyone here familiar with Spellevator? I remember being able to outscore everyone in my school at that game as a fourth-grader.

[vivalaultra 0]

I, like many others apparently, played the Hell outta some Oregon Trail, but my whole family always got dysentry and I always broke axels. I also used to play the hell outta Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?, but I didn't have the book for it, and you'd have to like...enter the word at the top of page 73 to continue on to the next level and stuff. Let's see...also played all of the King's Quest games...uh...Burger Time...yeah fuckin' Burger Time...Lode Runner....uh...the old Jeopardy and Family Fued. Man, that was...a long, long time ago. I miss the days when to start up every computer game you first had to go to a C prompt.

[Yuna_Firerose 0]

I, like many others apparently, played the Hell outta some Oregon Trail, but my whole family always got dysentry and I always broke axels. I also used to play the hell outta Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?, but I didn't have the book for it, and you'd have to like...enter the word at the top of page 73 to continue on to the next level and stuff. Let's see...also played all of the King's Quest games...uh...Burger Time...yeah fuckin' Burger Time...Lode Runner....uh...the old Jeopardy and Family Fued. Man, that was...a long, long time ago. I miss the days when to start up every computer game you first had to go to a C prompt.

Damn if you didn't just take me back just now.

 

I didn't play all of the King's Quest games only... two so far. My older sister had KQ 8: Mask of Eternity and... damn, I can't remember the other one. You played the Prince of Daventry and he was cast ashore by a broken down ship... there was a beauty and the beast subplot in there... he met a bookworm, I think...

 

Anyway. KQ 8 seemed like the greatest thing EVAR when she first got it (we played the game together; I was the hands/mouse and she was the feet/keyboard). Cheesy as all hell, sure, but an awesome story. Playing it recently though sure as hell breaks that charm. Horrible grapics even by its release. Still... I wonder if there are any torrents for the games. I always meant to play the one KQ where you play a chick.

 

I feel like I'm 14 again. o.o

 

EDIT: The first KQ I mentioned turns out to be "King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow". Man, I loved that game.

[Black Lushus 0]

I have Oregon Trail 2.

 

my Carmen SanDiego game of choice was Where In Time.

 

the Leisure Suit Larry games were probably my favorites of that whole Larry/King's Quest/Space Quest genre...I mean come on, in the first one, if Larry has sex with a prostitue without a condom, his dick blows up!

[Vampiro69 0]

I'm baffled that elementary schools now try to teach kids all this stuff like typing and spreadsheets. It's funny because to me computer lab time is just time to have fun and play Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, or that one other hunting/wildlife game where I'd always get eaten by the Osprey. What was that game?

 

I don't remember the name of that game, but it was an awesome game to play. I always laughed when you had students that had no clue as to what an osprey was and then get eaten.

[Maztinho 0]

I remember one day, the computer teacher getting mad at me for getting pissed at my family for bitching at me so I forded a 10 foot deep river and killed them all and promptly did a "Just killed my family dance" with impromptu song. He didn't take to my humor.

 

Also we had a locked house murder mystery game that owned, the main character was an andriod controlled by a dectective (you) and you'd give him commands to get, look, and whatnot, there was like ten suspects, and the longer the game went, the more people died. It was sort of a predessesor to Maniac Mansion which was another of my fave games as a kid.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

I never made it to Oregon.

[Cran Da Maniac 0]

 

I'm baffled that elementary schools now try to teach kids all this stuff like typing and spreadsheets. It's funny because to me computer lab time is just time to have fun and play Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, or that one other hunting/wildlife game where I'd always get eaten by the Osprey. What was that game?

 

I don't remember the name of that game, but it was an awesome game to play. I always laughed when you had students that had no clue as to what an osprey was and then get eaten.

 

 

Odell Lake. It was indeed an awesome game. As was the Muncher series. If anybody knows of where I can get a good ROM of those games for AppleWin, I would really appreciate it