Apple 2's Oregon Trail!

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I don't think Oregon Trail game was on 8.5" floppy disks. 5.25" yes.

It's the wheels that cut into stone and leave deep wheel ruts in less solid surfaces, but his point that you don't get the distinctive modern rubber tyred vehicle look stands... the horse path between the wheel ruts would stop grass growing in exactly the way that any other walked on grass doesn't grow.

If you have a look at these photos you'll see what marks you would expect from horse drawn carriages:

http://equineclub.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/third-quarter-electives-week-2012/

I also found some older photos:
http://www.kakitches.com/movies-tv-shows/oregon-trail-wagon-train.html

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>> ^hpqp:
Aw man, that was pretty hilarious. You should post the Peta turkey one, I would totally upvote that sheet.

I haven't seen that one. I only watched the games I know and played like Oregon Trail! Why don't YOU submit it and I will vote it up? I have too many to submit.

Thanks, 'tis done!
http://videosift.com/video/Hilarious-Cooking-Game-Playthrough


Cool! Hopefully, it will be a good one for everyone. I will watch it later since I am watching OTHER videos at the moment.

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>> ^hpqp:
Aw man, that was pretty hilarious. You should post the Peta turkey one, I would totally upvote that sheet.

I haven't seen that one. I only watched the games I know and played like Oregon Trail! Why don't YOU submit it and I will vote it up? I have too many to submit.


Thanks, 'tis done!

http://videosift.com/video/Hilarious-Cooking-Game-Playthrough

>> ^hpqp:

Aw man, that was pretty hilarious. You should post the Peta turkey one, I would totally upvote that sheet.


I haven't seen that one. I only watched the games I know and played like Oregon Trail! Why don't YOU submit it and I will vote it up? I have too many to submit.

Hell a tech brained kid in the 90s might have known about Apple, but they were on their way out of near everything. I can recall using them in middle school, around when I was in maybe 6th or 7th grade and even then they were trying to get rid of them when budgeting allowed.

Amiga was the one everyone used to talk about because video games and graphics were the new things coming along for games. Prior to Doom you had Archon, Oregon Trail, Zork, and other text based stuff....that was early and mid 90s. Think I got my first computer around 95, Doom came out in 93. But when stuff came out back then it didn't spread as quickly as it does now since people owning computers was rare and if they did it was 50/50 if they could do much of anything when it came to games.

Never physically encountered an Amiga, but that was the stuff all the "big studios" were using for their video production and what not if you heard about them at all.

Apples were novel, just because having one meant you had a computer. And computers were pretty rare. Consoles were where it was for actually "good" games for a long time, PCs were ungodly expensive.

Play the game online with an Apple 2 emulator: http://videosift.com/video/The-Oregon-Trail-Official-Trailer ...

I found a bunch for my phone, but they require a 'Z-code' emulator to run. found that, too, I even found the unzip ap I need to install them, but it's zipped! drats.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Might this be the game you're referring to? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

I never got too far in it, but I did rather enjoy the bit that I did play. Text-based games are both frustrating and amazingly fun at the same time, since you're never quite sure exactly what limitations there are, unlike conventional games.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
that's the stuff. my fav was 'hitchhiker's guide' which still runs out there on the web as an emulator. I found a bunch for palm os that I'm going to check out.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I remember playing some Oregon Trail back in early elementary school. My younger brother was the one who inevitably died of something or other every single time I played.

What sort of text games are you thinking of, purely text-based, or stuff like Police Quest back on those actually floppy disks?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?

Might this be the game you're referring to? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

I never got too far in it, but I did rather enjoy the bit that I did play. Text-based games are both frustrating and amazingly fun at the same time, since you're never quite sure exactly what limitations there are, unlike conventional games.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
that's the stuff. my fav was 'hitchhiker's guide' which still runs out there on the web as an emulator. I found a bunch for palm os that I'm going to check out.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I remember playing some Oregon Trail back in early elementary school. My younger brother was the one who inevitably died of something or other every single time I played.

What sort of text games are you thinking of, purely text-based, or stuff like Police Quest back on those actually floppy disks?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?

that's the stuff. my fav was 'hitchhiker's guide' which still runs out there on the web as an emulator. I found a bunch for palm os that I'm going to check out.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I remember playing some Oregon Trail back in early elementary school. My younger brother was the one who inevitably died of something or other every single time I played.

What sort of text games are you thinking of, purely text-based, or stuff like Police Quest back on those actually floppy disks?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?

I remember playing some Oregon Trail back in early elementary school. My younger brother was the one who inevitably died of something or other every single time I played.

What sort of text games are you thinking of, purely text-based, or stuff like Police Quest back on those actually floppy disks?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?

Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?