Comments on: Epic Win: Oregon Trail

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:46:53 +0000

this game was the BEST in it’s day. the best!

By: Wildfire

Wildfire — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:19:03 +0000

That is probably the best game the world has ever seen. I still play mine, and I even have a shirt that says “You have died of Dysentery” I where it when I see friends, and it makes me sad to see them tilt their head in confusion as they read it. =,(

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:54:50 +0000

We played this at school on big floppy disks. We laughed one when of our friends died of cholera or something, although back then we had no clue what kind of disease it was! You can still find this game online or as a download and play the old one, much more fun that the new ones.

By: Sarhii

Sarhii — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:10:55 +0000

ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!!!! they need to bring this game back I dont care if they use the old graphics or not I remember finishing my work as fast as I could so I could be the first one to play and there was always a crowd of people around telling you what to do.

By: Jade

Jade — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:04:06 +0000

Good times. I always shot like 800 pounds of buffalo just for the hell of it.

By: ElectricRat

ElectricRat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:59:03 +0000

I remember playing this game all the time in elementary school. I put in the names classmates I didn’t like to see how fast they would die. I also loved hunting.

By: Stick

Stick — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:21:54 +0000

I was just playing this online today for the first time in years. I died six stops away from Oregon. (And I just learned about this again in school this year.) How the hell did I mange to die?

By: Mitsuki

Mitsuki — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:31:45 +0000

I never ended up dying. XD

By: kyojikasshu

kyojikasshu — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:11:10 +0000

I’m old enough that I played the original, very first, c.1979 edition of Oregon Trail in school! The hunting scenes were basically limited to timing your shots as the animals ran across the top of the screen… and then that stinking flashing outline of a deer would change speeds on you!

Still, it was always a nice accomplishment to succeed, and get that full-screen text “letter” from President Polk.

Man, the old MECC games… my particular favorite, though, was Nomad. “Coffee, tea, or milk?”

By: Hopeless Romance

Hopeless Romance — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:57:04 +0000

I remember playing the 5th version of Oregon Trail in elementary school. I used to love it. I was always one of the last ones to die because I would always make my character a Doctor. I think it was usually starvation that killed me. xD

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:00:23 +0000

I remeber this game all to well. I always died by ‘Drowning In The River’ It pissed me off so much, but it was addictive as hell

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:54:14 +0000

I totally remember playing this in elementary school…. in black and white… on a mac…. with less file storage space than my digital watch.

Such a fun game. I should search for a bittorrent download of this… hope they didn’t have copy protection back then.

By: DudeMan

DudeMan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:43:27 +0000

Man, I had the Canadian Version of this. Essentially you had to build up a farm near Toronto in the 19th century. You had the possibility of being stabbed in the jaw in a bar fight, which is what we were always gunning for.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:42:02 +0000

I always loved that ending….. “What do you want on your tombstone?” where’s that commercial?

By: RainbowBrite!

RainbowBrite! — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:09:46 +0000

My sister and I just laughed until we cried at “Here Lies Andy. Peperony and chease” Oh man….I can’t breathe…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:09:14 +0000

My sister and I just laughed until we cried at “Here Lies Andy. Peperony and chease” Oh man….I can’t breathe…

By: picgirl7

picgirl7 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:48:10 +0000

if you go to busted tees they have an epic shirt. i always get an odd glance then the spark of realization then a laugh then “is that from….?”
so amazing. best video game ever.

By: picgirl7

picgirl7 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:41:06 +0000

sadly this style has stayed with me in my one and only attempt to play Halo 2. it was co op mode and my bf at the time kept yelling for me to respawn him, i had NO idea what that ment or how to do it so i just shot in a circle and somehow won the level

By: picgirl7

picgirl7 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:40:01 +0000

hahaha my hunting style as well! somehow id always end up getting the bufflao and only be able to carry like five pounds back

By: picgirl7

picgirl7 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:35:54 +0000

that sounds freakin awsome!

By: Wes

Wes — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:44:52 +0000

This game is the reason I became the massive geek I am today. I can’t tell you how many hours I spent on the computer playing this between 1990 and 1995. First video game I ever played.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:53:41 +0000

awww I had to play this at school and it was sooooooooo bad omg

By: Owl

Owl — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:14:28 +0000

I played this all the time in my elementary school days… EPIC win.

By: Sindel

Sindel — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:14:22 +0000

That was amazing I remember that game sooooo much! It was like the best game EVER!! I do not remember if I ever beat it… Always trying to pick the best profession so that mabye you had more money, or you knew medicine and could fix problems. Don’t want to carry to much stuff so that you are not all weighed down, but need enough items to survive! And then that river! Oh my gawd

By: Abby

Abby — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:58:21 +0000

My friend and I worked together and beat Amazon Trail 2 once. We were freaking out. At the end you ascend this temple and the gods or some such send you back home.

Took us hundreds of games to get to that point, though.

By: Sunshiner

Sunshiner — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:41:02 +0000

(Hunting for me included spinning around in a circle and constantly shooting bullets hoping that something would peek out from behind the bushes. I could never get it like those good ole redneck boys showing me how huntin’ is really done. )

By: Sunshiner

Sunshiner — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:36:55 +0000

I was always horrible at hunting. I don’t think I knew anybody who could actually win the game. Is it even possible?
I remember this was one of two games we could choose from at school on Fridays in computer class. Oregon Trail and Number Munchers. Oregon Trail FTW! Who wants to practice numbers and words on Friday? Pssh.

By: Calmor

Calmor — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:42:16 +0000

WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!~

By: Grevus

Grevus — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:05:47 +0000

I used play this at school. I gave the other family ,members names that were bizzar and sometimes rude. One of my signature tombstones war “Darn it, Jeb, gimme back my tube socks!”.

By: rawrlicious

rawrlicious — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:34:47 +0000

oh my goodness! I thought I was one of the only people ever to play this game. My uncle, the geek he is, found it one day at the school’s Board Office and somehow it made it to my grandparents house. I started playing one day and I was in awe of its awesomeness. I loved hunting the best

By: FifiLarue

FifiLarue — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:54:03 +0000

……………..Were you predicting the future songs by Eninem? Last time i heard, he was just a skinny white boy with a bad haircut in 1984. Are yiu sure you weren’t quoting songs by Prince?

By: jen

jen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:49:52 +0000

Yeah – I played the non-graphics green/black version in the mid-80’s as well. You had to keep track of all your own stats and info because there weren’t multiple parts of the screen, you could just see your previous few decisions as they were still visible on the lines above on the screen. Apple II !

By: MinisterofSilly

MinisterofSilly — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:15:53 +0000

“Aquaman drowned”? :O

By: larinon

larinon — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:33:39 +0000

Thanks for the link! It kept me up way later than I wanted to be That’s the version I remember from grade school, the classic oregon trail if you will.

6438 points, Trail Guide! No deaths, but we had an outbreak of broken arms and one non-fatal case of Typhoid. Took over a “year” to get there though. I was too busy trying to find the deal of the century by trading with other emigrants. Too many people were trying to trade me a set of clothing for an ox!

(link goes to funny oregon trail screencap i found online from a later version)

By: Lilly

Lilly — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:29:40 +0000

…Man, England gets all the cool stuff.

By: Tianashen

Tianashen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:02:30 +0000

This post and all these comments have me cracking up. I remember playing this game in computer class. I was awful at it!! haha..

By: Poco

Poco — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:45:08 +0000

Two dollars in the bargain bin at my local computer store. I’m glad I still have a floppy drive!

By: Wesley B.

Wesley B. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:22:23 +0000

Ahhh, nothing I liked more in 1984 than dying and quoting Eminem songs on the tombstones I left behind.

By: Luci

Luci — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:17:23 +0000

I absolutely adored this game. When we had computer class (once a week in elementary and middle school) we’d have 20 minutes free time to play. BEST GAME EVER!

By: Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:36:02 +0000

YES!!!! Our teachers made us work in groups or ‘wagon trains’. I’d always choose the people I hated most *the popular kids-loserme* and they’d die of dysentery, or some other atrocity.

By: Cecona

Cecona — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:42:40 +0000

aaah, I remember this game. loved it! I loved hunting and I loved the death! I got a much, much later version a few years ago…it was HORRIBLE! Total fail! It wasnt all pixel and 2-D like the original, it was 3-D and the people looked real…and the worst part… NO ONE DIED! I got to the end and my whole party was still alive! It made me sad and I quickly chunked the thing.

By: VurtualRuler98

VurtualRuler98 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:13:50 +0000

I ended up owning a limited edition version where all the people are pictures in stupid costumes, with weird talking animations, pasted unfittingly.
And no dysentery

You have shot 1800 pounds of meat.
You were able to carry back 4.

By: SystemError

SystemError — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:41:04 +0000

This one time… at band camp…

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:22:54 +0000

I don’t ever remember playing this. I played one of the Amazon Trail games though, it kills me that I can’t remember which one, I wanna get it off Ebay. I just need to find somewhere with screenshots of all 3 Amazon Trail games >_>;

These are like.. the best educational games xD

By: Lisbeth

Lisbeth — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:16:30 +0000

The fact that virtual apple doesn’t run on a Mac seems a little weird to me.

By: andy

andy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:19:11 +0000

I think that’s my tombstone. Unless someone with the same name enjoyed the same joke and had equally bad spelling. Anyone know the source? Turns out the school I went to didn’t purge the Apple IIes until last year. 17+ years of Oregon trail. I can’t image anything that could survive that environment for that long.

By: catgirl

catgirl — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:58:20 +0000

I love how it is so nonchalant when someone dies. Like the clothing and axles are more important than your drowned family member.

By: Big Deezy

Big Deezy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:44:07 +0000

Are you sure that wasn’t “Michael Jackson Trail” or “John Wayne Gacy Trail?”

By: MettanAtem

MettanAtem — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:21:05 +0000

I played Oregon Trail before. I seem to always die a few minutes in.

By: Beeb

Beeb — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:33:32 +0000

We had one of these in England in our schools, except it was about the plague. We were put into groups (families). We had to log on to see if the plague had killed us in the night.
I was a priest and my family died but I lived on Even the plague knows not to mess with da church…