Oregon Trail

[bbrauch2000]

anyone know where I can find a free version of this online? I wouldnt mind having it at work for the slow times

[trwi7]

I'm not sure but if you're bored at work this should help you pass the time.

 

http://thatvideogamesite.com/

[jaybird2001wi]

Did a simple google search and there is a web site that has a "clone" of Oregon trail called "westward trail." Also wikipedia has some info. I kinda miss playing the game so I will check out the generic version, westward trail.

[DHonks]

i downloaded it in college with a mac emulator. That and Wings of Fury provided some drunken fun at 1 am in college

[docduany]

This won't help DHonks, but I too like to pass the time with the old Oregon Trail. I've also got a copy of Oregon Trail II. Both are games it's fun to play and you don't have to think too hard. I've often wondered if they've tried making a similar game for a big gaming platform, I guess I'd at least buy it.

[Mike Felder]

I downloaded it after following a link off of Wikipedia (got some old Carmen Sandiego games that way too). I also downloaded the really old-school version of it with an Apple II emulator.

EDIT: I got if off of this site. Apparently they want you to pay 5 bucks for it now, they didn't used to.

http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/educational_games/games_n_r/oregon_trail_deluxe.html

[fondybrewfan]

Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiago ruled. I sucked at Oregon Trail, I am not sure I ever made it to the end, but man I ruled at geography.

[MessiahRp]

Go here: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GameMuseum.Detail&id=266

 

At the bottom are links to DL the emulator and the ROM file.

 

Rp

[zingsheim]

That game was pretty good.

[Fatter than Joey]

My kids play Oregon Trail a lot on the PC -- My son always gets to be "Trail Manager" or whatever its called, but he inevitably Yosts his posse, when he shoots all the buffalo and gives everyone in the camp diphtheria, or whatever ends up Yosting them all.

[temke]

www.virtualapple.org

[PKBadger]

My kids play Oregon Trail a lot on the PC -- My son always gets to be "Trail Manager" or whatever its called, but he inevitably Yosts his posse, when he shoots all the buffalo and gives everyone in the camp diphtheria, or whatever ends up Yosting them all.

 

 

"Here lies YOST - died of cholera, 2006. Nobody noticed until the end of 2007, though."

[jaybird2001wi]

I am playing westward trail, the generic version of the game, and I ran out of food immediately. One of my oxen died and I all of my party members are near death. I played this game almost 3 times a week back in elementary school and never once beat it. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

 

I lost westward trail because of this:

Severe winter weather has snowed you in. You had to resort to cannibalism before finally dying of hunger. You lose!

[princeginterhallhelms04]

Man this game was a staple in elementary school and as i think back it was actually a reward to get to play it if we got our typing program done. ahhh the memories.

[Principessa21]

Go here: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GameMuseum.Detail&id=266

 

At the bottom are links to DL the emulator and the ROM file.

 

Rp

Thank you.

On my first try, I decided to be a farmer (I know, only bankers win) and attempted to ford the first river. I lost tons of stuff, including my oxen, and Han, Chewbacca, and Obi-Wan drowned. *sigh* One of these days I'll get to the end of Oregon Trail (just like one day I'll finally beat the first Mario Brothers).

 

[BrewBabyBrew]

We played Oregon Trail and Number Munchers all the time in grade school. I remember playing Odell Down Under (a game where you're a fish trying to survive) and Dino Park Tycoon. Our teacher would actually give prizes to who did the best at Dino Park cuz it was somewhat of a business game. We played all the time during inside recess!

[jaybird2001wi]

Number Munchers was an awesome game until I realized it was a nerdy game for math geeks. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif I remember playing a game called Cross Country Canada, which is a game where you are a trucker trying to pick up supplies and ship them elsewhere. I could never figure the game out.

All of the games produced by MECC were awesome. I started elementary school right when the Apple 2e's were just going obsolete as far as school funding was concerned (which was back around 1988 or something). I will always remember the black and green colored screens on the old apple computers.

Then they switched to the simple Macs which had a small 6 or 7 inch screen (we went through so many different models of computers back in elementary and middle school, I lost track of what was after the old Apples.)

http://www.greylizard.net/images/mycomputers/comapple2e.jpg

Anyone remember the old floppy disks?

http://itp.nyu.edu/~bp432/blug/floppy%20disk.gif

 

[Mike Felder]

My dad got his master's in computer science around 1988 and was way into Apple computers. We had the old Apple IIe and later the IIgs at home. Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, MicroLeague Baseball, and Leaderboard Golf were sweet games on those old giant floppy disks.

[bthurley19]

"Ned Yost is Lost" - Never has a statement more true than this been made by Oregon Trail. At least I hope Prince Fielder doesn't have a broken leg and Ryan Braun doesn't have measles.