Comments on: Endings to the Oregon Trail

By: Zoosnarf

Zoosnarf — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:06:43 +0000

He’s referring to the Donner Party, which was a group of people in the late 1800′s who were heading west and ended up having to stop traveling due to a long blizzard. They had to camp for months and ran out of supplies. So, to stay alive, they had to eat the people who died.

By: keelyRAE

keelyRAE — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:57:01 +0000

hahahaha.

too true.
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By: ohnoanotherputz

ohnoanotherputz — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:46:44 +0000

snakes always did me in. If only I had Samuel L Jackson in my party!

By: lemonpledge7093

lemonpledge7093 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:51:13 +0000

I’ve never gotten that.

By: Simnos

Simnos — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:26:16 +0000

Aww c’mon that’s weak! It’s all about maintaining a greuling pace with no food, one axel wheel and a bad case of dysentry! That’s what America was founded on and that’s still where it’s at!

By: Simnos

Simnos — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:24:34 +0000

Yeah.. and then the buffalo go extinct and you die of starvation.

By: Nobel Gundam

Nobel Gundam — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:50:15 +0000

I recall playing Oregon Trail with my brother when I was younger, but it sounds like a different version than what you guys played… Our party kept dying for no apparent reason “____ got sick and died” over and over again. I think an assassin staked us out or something. It was the kind of ridiculously impossible game where you could never win…

And then, about 5 years ago, we found out how to use the Universal Game Editor, it’s a hexediting program. We edited our savegame to give us ridiculous amounts of everything. We also found out a way to edit the distance between us and our location to 1… we had 255 teleporting oxen.

By: lolzalotamus

lolzalotamus — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:06:43 +0000

wheres the, “you got a purty mouth” death sequence?

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:35:20 +0000

I don’t think I ever made it – not once. That rafting on the Columbia bit in the video was completely foreign to me.

It might have something to do with the fact that my bacon got worms so I opted for the flour, which always got weevils. I started taking grandfather clocks every time. At least you could burn it.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:34:24 +0000

You can still play a version on facebook. Not as much fun but better than nothing.

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:51:00 +0000

Who needs blankets and food when there’s bacon and grandfather clocks?
Oh, and bring one hat.

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:50:02 +0000

I always died climbing a gentle slope.

By: Ma.Belle.Fleur

Ma.Belle.Fleur — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:03:32 +0000

I actually finally beat this damn game after running a simulator on my comp. Granted there was only one person who made it but still.

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:55:09 +0000

What I loved about that was how quick the mourning was. It’s like, oh well, we’ve still got one kid left, back to the trail!

By: Becca

Becca — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:07:16 +0000

I remember playing the newer version in 3rd grade!! I sucked at it…never finished the game. I think they made this game pretty much impossible to defeat haha

By: Dani

Dani — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:25:58 +0000

Also, scurvy happened a lot.

By: Tudor_Rose

Tudor_Rose — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:10:50 +0000

The best part about Oregon Trail was always naming the people in your wagon after people in your class, so you could laugh hysterically when they died.

I used to play the deluxe version in the mid-90s at home, and they always showed the weirdest picture at the top depicting “burying and mourning the dead,” which you can see at 2:37 of the video below:

By: chekov

chekov — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:08:18 +0000

Broken Axle and Cholera. Every Single Time.

By: ORLY

ORLY — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:40:48 +0000

I remember one time my computer partner and I completed it…of course this was after many classes of repeatedly dying.

By: Guess Again

Guess Again — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:57:38 +0000

Retarded-ass comments – lose five days.

haha..it’s all about shooing 2000 pounds of buffalo, “…but unfortunately, you could only carry 200 pounds.”
Also, it’s all about old school Oregon Trail.

By: Companion Cube

Companion Cube — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:47:59 +0000

I must admit. I laughed a long time at this.

By: che

che — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:58:21 +0000

the snake!!

By: Ayeka

Ayeka — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:25:18 +0000

My kids always died from cholera too.

By: Ayeka

Ayeka — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:23:56 +0000

I always died fording the 2 foot deep river.
And damn those capitalists pigs and their expensive ferry

By: Sprite101

Sprite101 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:44:14 +0000

Totally happened to me every time.

By: andy

andy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:12:10 +0000

peperony and chease

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:26:16 +0000

I always got typhoid or tuburculosis, something with a T anyway

By: OINK

OINK — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:44:06 +0000

You forgot the option “become snowbound and eat your companions”.

By: faetal

faetal — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:41:54 +0000

They remade that game eventually and it was a bit easier to get to Oregon, However your wagon train was full of whiney bit(hes and if you managed to make it all the way with any cargo (even if it were all blankets and food) the nasally little whimp at Oregon City made a big fuss about “All that cargo”
I wanted to hit him….

moreover, I want to find that disk and play a round now >.>

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:33:02 +0000

Oh no! Little timmy broke his leg! Then got bitten by a snake!… Then FINALLY he drown. Man, some times it felt like you were traveling on a Friday the 13th.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:29:36 +0000

Or everyone drowns in the river.

By: Guy

Guy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:28:55 +0000

You forgot Goiter.
Also, first, but that doesn’t matter.