Balder
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Post by Balder on Sept 27, 2016 6:54:23 GMT
This week:
Oregon Trail
Choosen by: dschult3
Year: 1971
Developer: MECC
Publisher: Brøderbund, The Learning Company and Gameloft
Platforms: PC, phones, DS, 3DS, Wii, Facebook
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Post by ModeratorNumber2 on Sept 27, 2016 6:57:05 GMT
Added to the review list.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Sept 27, 2016 6:58:36 GMT
Now I haven't played this one, as it was way before my time. But what interested me was that it's available on Facebook! Just find that weird.
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Dan E. Kool
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Sept 27, 2016 21:34:54 GMT
Great choice! Just reading the title of this thread gave me nostalgia.
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dschult3
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Post by dschult3 on Sept 27, 2016 21:35:22 GMT
I first played this game on my school's Apple II computer lab in the late 1980s. This introduced me to computer gaming and the wonderful world of 5 1/4" floppy disks. We always had fun playing this game as a class, and I think it was a perfect example of what "edutainment" games should have been.
There was nothing like naming your character "assface" and then dying of dysentery. Then, later on, other kids would come upon your tombstone, and the class would erupt. Teachers would explode, but there was never any way to check and see who wrote it. Of course, once the computer was turned off, there was never any evidence, because there wasn't a hard drive.
I love this game.
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Dan E. Kool
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Sept 27, 2016 21:36:33 GMT
Now I haven't played this one, as it was way before my time [...] Says the teen-aged Atari-2600 collector. |
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scipioafricanus
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Post by scipioafricanus on Sept 27, 2016 21:58:36 GMT
The first version was 1971?
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dschult3
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Post by dschult3 on Sept 27, 2016 22:26:22 GMT
The first version was 1971? Apparently. Perhaps it was just a text version of the game? |
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Post by Imperial Khador on Sept 27, 2016 23:28:16 GMT
My experiences were similar to dschult3. Lots of fun playing this on the Apple IIe's in the elementary school computer lab. |
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Sept 28, 2016 5:34:28 GMT
Now I haven't played this one, as it was way before my time [...] Says the teen-aged Atari-2600 collector. Not a teenager anymore dude. |
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on Sept 28, 2016 7:08:05 GMT
Not a teenager anymore dude. Happy birthday man! |
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Post by Cervantes on Sept 28, 2016 10:29:12 GMT
10/10 would die of dysentery again.
In all seriousness, this must be one of the few truly edutainment classics out there.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Sept 28, 2016 12:13:26 GMT
Not a teenager anymore dude. Happy birthday man! Thanks I guess? It's early summer, not Fall. |
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Dan E. Kool
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Sept 28, 2016 23:23:36 GMT
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Sept 29, 2016 5:35:21 GMT
I'm not even going to resist.
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