What game IS this?

[Gotham Soul]

The only thing I remember is only caring about filling my wagon with ammunition and stopping every quarter mile to hold a vote that the train should go hunting. Characters could only hold 200 pounds of meet at a time, and we always had plenty of food, but that didn't stop me or anyone else from blasting everything in sight to Narnia, even if we didn't need to.

 

[kapzer]

It ended there sir. Started on the East coast. It was all about the trek from the east to the west - pioneers, were they not?

 

[Twilight_guy]

Ahh, oregon trail. Oh the memories. So much dysentery and death.

 

[geldonyetich]

I forget what your goal was...did it start at Oregon or end there?

It ended there. It was not about the great migration east because, well, there wasn't one.

 

[DamienHell]

I loved the original, I beat it a couple times.

 

[Fenring]

I used to play that all the time.

 

[The Wooster]

There's prolly some free version of it, since its deemed educational.
I hated the game 'cause my father tried to have me play it, and I got killed by a snake.

I always got dysentry.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Ah the Oregon Trail, takes me back to when I was 4 years old and first learning how to use a computer.

 

[Liverandbacon]

Woah, Oregon trail. I spent most of my elementary school days on that. As did everyone else in my class. The most memorable death message I remember was when I was "ravaged by a cougar". I am completely serious. And you always caulked the wagon and floated, or got the ferry. Fording had a death rate of something like 80%.

Edit- And I killed so many animals that eventually there were none left. I could sit for a full 10 minutes and not see a single squirrel. Of course, the hardcore way to play is to start with 0 food, 0 money, 0 ammunition. Just lots of grandfather clocks.

 

[RedElectric]

ahh...oregon trail...FORD THE RIVER, OXEN! FORD IT!

Everytime i tried to ford a river, i'd lose at least two people and at least one ox.

Stupid rivers...

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

I forget what your goal was...did it start at Oregon or end there?

I hate to say this but...
Were you paying attention in school?
(and please don't tell me you aced it with flying colors)

It ends there, as manifest destiny called for.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

ahh...oregon trail...FORD THE RIVER, OXEN! FORD IT!

Everytime i tried to ford a river, i'd lose at least two people and at least one ox.

Stupid rivers...

YEAH! Always keeping us down...and killing us, too...

 

[geldonyetich]

Anyone play that one game that was like this but pirate-y? You had little point-and-click fights against famous pirates, and tried to get to the New World using currents without hitting rocks, sinking, or having everyone die of scurvy. So much fun, I always bought all the gunpowder and cannonballs I could and only lemons for the crew to eat.

I haven't played that one. It's probably because we were distracted with Sid Meyer's Pirates [http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/pirates-series] which gave you far more than an Oregon Trail like interface to conduct your freebooting.

Recently I was messing around with Rings of Zilfin [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHfqC7Epz4] and realized it had some similarities to Oregon Trail in that you chose a direction and entered a travel simulation.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I forget what your goal was...did it start at Oregon or end there?

I hate to say this but...
Were you paying attention in school?
(and please don't tell me you aced it with flying colors)

It ends there, as manifest destiny called for.

I don't remember history class and especially the history of my own nation. I do recall that my strong suits were math, english/grammar, and psychology. And my grades sucked because I was lazy.

On-topic: Who didn't enjoy naming people after teachers, knowing that everyone tends to die?

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

My people always got dysentery.

Mine hit a rock while rafting the wagon and drowned on more than one occasion.

 

[Vek]

It ended there sir. Started on the East coast. It was all about the trek from the east to the west - pioneers, were they not?

It's named for the Oregon Trail to the northwest United Sates, and you could start in the East for a harder and longer journey, but the real ORegon Trail started in Independence Missouri, and progressed west through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and finally Oregon.

 

[geldonyetich]

On-topic: Who didn't enjoy naming people after teachers, knowing that everyone tends to die?

That's what Skool Daze [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6BxBfk0LY4] was for.

 

[kapzer]

It ended there sir. Started on the East coast. It was all about the trek from the east to the west - pioneers, were they not?

It's named for the Oregon Trail to the northwest United Sates, and you could start in the East for a harder and longer journey, but the real ORegon Trail started in Independence Missouri, and progressed west through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and finally Oregon.

Thanks for the enlightenment, dude. I'm a bit rusty on my American history, although I studied it for two years :/

 

[Kermi]

The only way I can win at Oregon trail is to play as a carpenter so I can repair my wagon myself, start with 6-8 oxen and tons of food. Then you move at the fastest pace the entire time and cut everyone back to shitty rations once you hit halfway. Hunting is a waste of time.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

Oregon Trail...I used to play that in the library during Elementary School...Good times,goods