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Blizzards, Broken limbs, Snakebites, Exhaustion, Starvation, and Dysentery all await you... (If you're Gen-X you'll know what this is.)

submitted by iSnark to OldSchoolCool 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 19:31:44 ago (+13/-1)     (archive.org)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990



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[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz 2 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 22:46:35 ago (+2/-0)

i remember playing sierra games on my 486 sx 33mhz with just 4mb or ram and a shitty sounblaster card and my old man paid 1500 for this pc at sears in 1992-1994

it was so crappy that it couldnt run the mortal kombat games that came out later on.

the graphics were shitty too

what i'm saying is that i never got to play the big games on pc until i had a decent system like 5 years ago :(

i was mostly a console player during that time

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 23:00:05 ago (+0/-0)

I feel for ya man! I remember those days.
I wonder if you could still run Linux on it. I'm guessing you could, hardware recognition might be what gets ya...

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 23:19:32 ago (+0/-0)

there was a kid at my building who was a computer genius. this kid show me his computer ( i was a teen too at the time) and he had unix and other OS running on his computer and not only that he could program the soundblaster card to have speech.

i think that right now he must be working for the govt or something. that kid was really brilliant, personally i barely knew how to run windows 3.11 XD

he show me a few dos commands though that helped me to run some pc troubleshooting. i will never forget him because of his brilliance with software. he was a true nerd of nerds lol


yeah i got jelly that later on they released a better 486 chip with new clock speeds and a math coprocessor

[ - ] CHIRO 2 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:34:13 ago (+2/-0)*

I'm like the half-way mark for the age range 'millennial', and I know about the Trail. I didn't play it, but I'm aware. My first PC gaming experience was Tomb Raider. It's off-topic, I realize, but it makes me wonder if there were proto-Goats back then who complained about muh strong female lead. I know where Carmen Sandiego ought to be. . .in the fuckin kitchen.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 1 point 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:51:51 ago (+1/-0)

That's pretty cool that you've played Oregon Trail, I thought it had it's run way before you guys came on the scene. I'm glad to hear that your generation got to experience this. I think we might've been the original Goats from back in the day. I didn't much like TombRaider! Saw the movie recently, a couple months back and hated it!

[ - ] Spaceman84 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 23:20:35 ago (+0/-0)

Millennials used Apple II's in elementary school.

[ - ] mikenigger 1 point 9 monthsSep 7, 2024 00:56:03 ago (+1/-0)

sounds like Australia today

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 7, 2024 01:02:47 ago (+0/-0)

No Shit! ;-)
I appreciate ruggedness, but Damn! They have bugs there that are bigger than some dogs!

[ - ] NeonGreen 1 point 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:29:24 ago (+1/-0)

I knew it!

[ - ] Jimmycrackerson 0 points 9 monthsSep 7, 2024 05:06:26 ago (+0/-0)

As millenials, we played this in school. Our teacher would tell us to play Reader Rabbit, but id go on Oregon Trail. Stock up on ammo, and hunt wildlife the whole time.

[ - ] oyveyo 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:13:58 ago (+0/-0)

Always take the ferry.

[ - ] iSnark [op] 0 points 9 monthsSep 6, 2024 20:46:47 ago (+0/-0)

I lost the game, but I caulked up twice, rode across once, and took the ferry once. No one got dysentery, though. I consider that a win... ;-)