Facebook Catches Crooks and Dysentery At the Same Time

[tahrey]

Melas sort of said it already, and it's kind of inevitable/obvious, but...

Two classic educational games that just about everybody...

in the united states

...was forced to play growing up in the 1980s and 1990s were Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego.

Oh yeah I went there.
These are at least games I've heard of and have half an idea about, but only since getting online. I've never played them, much less been forced to - despite growing up through the exact period they were most popular - and didn't even so much as see a computer magazine review of either.

Still, sounds like fun. I've sworn off Facebook gaming altogether as it's a damn mind-virus and the payback is fairly pitiful even with the social element (I dunno, I just don't gel with multiplayer if it's not "live"). I do wonder how they'll work that into games that were originally explicitly single-player.

What this does mean is that we now need to get some bedroom coding, Sinclair Spectrum-weaned, BBC Micro educated British programmers on the case to make a socially integrated version of Granny's Garden and the like...

(love the post title btw )

 

[HentMas]

Wait...Oregon Trail is a GAME?

You mean, I wasn't ACTUALLY supposed to move to Oregon?

Dammit, I knew I should have read that manual...

and you survived!?

damn!!!, how many grandfather clocks did you found in your journey???

 

[DeadlyYellow]

There's a (much) later Mac game I was rather fond of. Another educational one, though I can't recall the name of it. Basically you were a fish swimming around eating stuff. I'd rather play that again.

But Oregon Trail will do. Looks pretty well, and they seemed to have merged the hunting styles.

Never had quite as good memories of Carmen San Diego. The villain always got away because I never had a warrant when I caught them.

 

[Ewyx]

I prefer Organ Trail... http://hatsproductions.com/organtrail.html