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Hunting was the best.
When I was student teaching 8th graders back in early 90s, they played that.
That game goes back a few years before I was playing. But I played Kings Quest and Ultima in the late 80s on my Mac 2GS. All those Sierra role-playing games were great at the time.
Flagpole wrote:
When I was student teaching 8th graders back in early 90s, they played that.
When I was a 5th grader in 1985 we played that. Apple computer if I recall correctly.
I remember playing it in 5th grade on the computers. Everyone (in the game) would always get dysentery and die. Every river we would attempt to wade would inevitably result in large death tolls and loss of all resources (food, weapons, etc.). I think I actually made it to the Pacific one time.
I loved playing it in grade school. Here is an older version available to play online. It can be a little buggy though.
We have nothing to eat!
That's okay, we have 1000 bullets.
lol
The Bearded One wrote:
I loved playing it in grade school. Here is an older version available to play online. It can be a little buggy though.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
I am going to lose my job because of this. Thanks!
Old enough to play Oregon Trail?!
I have the impression that many posters here are old enough to have USED the Oregon Trail
I remember playing it as a kid on the VAX at the local university. No screen, printed all commands and text on the dot matrix computer on the green/white paper. Nothing like having a group of grad students waiting to use the machine as we hiked the Oregon Trail, hunted the wumpus, or played football.
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Flagpole wrote:
When I was student teaching 8th graders back in early 90s, they played that.
Should have known Flagpole is a teacher.
That's Mr Flagpole wrote:
Flagpole wrote:When I was student teaching 8th graders back in early 90s, they played that.
Should have known Flagpole is a teacher.
Not a teacher anymore. I am an independent consultant for manufacturing companies.
Flagpole wrote:
That's Mr Flagpole wrote:Should have known Flagpole is a teacher.
Not a teacher anymore. I am an independent consultant for manufacturing companies.
Do you like Michael Bolton?
Flagpole wrote:
That's Mr Flagpole wrote:Should have known Flagpole is a teacher.
Not a teacher anymore. I am an independent consultant for manufacturing companies.
aka "in between jobs"
I played Oregon Trail once but I won easily the first time so obviously it wasn't the original.
I know Oregon Trail intimately. I helped convert that game (and many others) from Dartmouth Basic (UBASIC on the UNIVAC) to RTB (Real Time Basic on the UNIVAC) at Mankato State back in mid-70's for MECC (Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium). It was then converted from RTB to Basic on the Cyber computers run by MERITSS. After that it made it to Apple II, where it started getting some graphics. (prior to that is was purely text based, and you typed commands).
Initially the game library was collected from universities all over and moved to UBASIC which only the Minnesota state colleges and a couple of college based "campus schools" were attached to. UNIVAC won the bid for the statewide service that added nearly all the high schools and middle schools in the state. They used a embedded process that ran all the terminal interaction that they obtained from SUNY New York, which has a build in interpreter called Real Time Basic. UNIVAC hired students to convert the state college system's game library to RTB, and Oregon Trail was one of the programs.
CDC repeated the process when they later won the contract, again hiring students to convert the library again.
I still have the source code for the original UBASIC around here somewhere, along with Kingdom, CAVE (which was FORTRAN), Lunar, and all sorts on old text based games.
Donner Party > Oregon Trail
Here in the UK we had Sinclair's ZX Spectrum 48K PC in the 80s. Games such as Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy and this one which was an all-time classic
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