The Oregon Trail Thread

I loved this game. I always would play it when I was younger. I remember I would go hunting and take a ridiculous amount of food, just for it to go bad a few days later. I never made it to the end with more than one person left. It's a shame that my whole family died every time

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Loved it when you took the gamble to cross a river and your cart messes up and you lose a wheel or something and maybe someone drowns, lol.

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I think I actually got everyone to the end once. We used to play this in keyboarding class. It was just fun to see what happened to everyone. Especially after you name your family after you best friends.

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Originally Posted by Excrono

Hea, just played though again because I was bored. I decided to handicap myself and go as a carpenter, with little food (500 pounds) and little cash on hand. I did loose two people, once was my fault (out of food and starving) and the other just happend out of the blue, for no given reason. Oh, well at least I bested my previous score.

Where'd you get that emulator to work? All copies of it I found were bad.

I was speaking idiomatically.

If anyone wants, I can give the people Oregon Trail Deluxe, which is the game I used to run my little GFF adventure. It's around 4MB.

I'm off to work now though. I'll check the thread later.

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I saw this game at x-play once, i heard its fun never tried it though so if you will share please.

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Oregon Trail I was a lot of fun, and brings back memories from like, elementary school...but only for the hunting.

Oregon Trail II was fun for everything else, especially when you got to buy all that stuff before you headed out on your journey. Cause in I, you only bought like pounds of food, oxen, and a couple other things. In II, you had to buy every type of medicine, food, clothes, etc.

I wish my Oregon Trail II cd still worked. :\
I think you can find Oregon Trail I somewhere online though. I got it off of a facebook group.

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Some things I remember about this game (actually, I beat it recently, so good times, but not as good as these):

-Having the program stop half-way from loading and changing the code around so that I'd have a super amount of cash or whatnot.

-Dying, then trying again, only to find my own grave...eek!

-The Mac Version. Man, did that version hate me. I started out, two steps later, fire, two steps more, someone died, three steps more, got robbed, a few steps more, someone's sick, two more steps, an oxen is dead, a few more steps and me made it to the river, thank goodness.

Whoooooooooooooooooooa there though, not so fast. Gotta actually CROSS the river. Half-way across, the majority of my food washed away. Don't worry though, two people drowned as well. Lost some other things too.

Anyway, we are back on solid ground and....darn it, outta food, let's go hunting! Go hunting for a day, no go...but we can try again--wait, hold their partner, just got robbed and left only a few bullets (I think, my memory blurs the last bit of what happened with hunting. I may had lost some bullets in the water, or they were stolen earlier, or I didn't buy enough). Okay, time to keep going, we can make it, we can...wait, another person gone, down to one. Well, we still have ONE person left and we are almost, almost, nah, just kidding, that person's gone too.

Oh well, at least I can make a time inscription for old time's sake...wait there though, the game isn't done yet. IT decides to FREEZE UP before I can actually quit the game (and save the inscription).

Ouch.

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Wow. So many memories of this game. My most vivid memory of this game is when my friend and I were playing this on an old Apple and then we came across a headstone that said "FUCK YOU." The funny thing is that I think I probably put that...it was bound to happen guys...

Anyway, when I played this in middle school, I got around 7000 because I played the farmer. It's really not that difficult. Just don't push your oxen and take it slow...really slow.

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I definitely need to research into this emulator software. Of course it should've existed, I can't believe I didn't research it when I grabbed a copy of Oregon Trail.

As much as I love the game, it's damn hard when all the stupid animals zip by your screen and it takes like 5 bullets to shoot one of those damn buffalo.

Of course, it makes for quick games of the Trail.

Still, I've enjoyed indulging in the past every now and then. Some of the best times I spent in elementary school was playing Oregon Trail (when we were "allowed", sometimes we've have to play a math game or something like that). That damn mini-game where you go down the river at the end is still just as scary as it was back in the day.

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I remember not having to hunt at all (a cheat I remember on how to get more food for nothing or something like that), but that of course, I havent played it since 1992.

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Originally Posted by Liquid_Snack

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I saw this game at x-play once, i heard its fun never tried it though so if you will share please.

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I was speaking idiomatically.

Thanks for sharing =P, well i hope this could be fun.

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Lol i loved Solid Sharkey's site back in the day, wonder what happened to him...

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Once as I was starting out in OT Deluxe on the Mac, a thief stole ALL my oxen!

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Originally Posted by MurraySkull

Once as I was starting out in OT Deluxe on the Mac, a thief stole ALL my oxen!

Please tell me it was while you were in transit....or crossing a river.

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This came up in class the other day, when we were talking about how Apple got such a foothold in the market by supplying classrooms with tons of computers. I really feel for today's children, not growing up with Oregon Trail. They are really missing out.

It's like the collective secret language for an entire generation of Americans. You can turn to just about anybody in their twenties and make a crack about how you shot 900 pounds of food but could only carry 100 pounds back to the wagon, and you'll get a laugh.

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Wow, my thread is still going strong. However, how come nobody is actually posting logs of their adventures? I want to see someone have 2 broken legs and still manage to get lost AND drive the wagon to freedom.

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Holy crap. Talk about a blast from the past. I vividly remember playing this in school and never having enough time in class to finish it.

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Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

Wow, my thread is still going strong. However, how come nobody is actually posting logs of their adventures? I want to see someone have 2 broken legs and still manage to get lost AND drive the wagon to freedom.

If I found a working copy of it, I'd document every interesting day in humurous detail.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I posted a link earlier in the thread for Oregon Trail Deluxe. What's wrong with that game? :(

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

I posted a link earlier in the thread for Oregon Trail Deluxe. What's wrong with that game?

My lack of the skill known as "Reading the thread." My apologies.

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I was thinking about mentioning this a few days ago, but didn't think it was important enough to bump the thread over. But since it seems to have been revived anyway, I have to ask...has anyone played that "Amazon Trail" game? I saw it in one of the budget racks in Shopko, and it had a big "From the creator's of Oregon Trail" sticker on the front. But it looked really cheesy, like your tour guide was a photograph of a person. But it was really cheap, so eh, maybe I'll pick it up and see if it's really that bad. If it is, I'll put it up on YSI for everyone else to download and laugh at.

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My Yukon Trail journal: http://www.sendspace.com/file/m5ghr6

My Oregon Trail DX journal: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1eqomp

My Oregon Trail II journal - Fun with Quicksand: http://www.sendspace.com/file/t7uwes

My Oregon Trail II gamerip: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5rrsdz

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Seems like quite a few people played this game in school. I'm one of them too. I don't get what the point of computer class was in elementary, since all it was Oregon Trail everytime. It was fun though.

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