Oregon Trail
There are many things as far as games, movies, and TV that occurred during my lifetime so far. Most uninteresting, and others held precious to my generation or as we like to say the nickelodeon generation. I am going to stray from the long hours in front of the tube, and concentrate on a voyage we all took at some point in our life. A search for gold west or maybe just a better life, who knows. You pack your best friends or family members, and sally forth to the west. How long will your journey take? Will Timmy die of malaria? It’s up to you, for you chose to go through or around the river, you chose to pack the refrigerator or the proper ointments to save Timmy. The ox has died, its ok you had two, but now your sister just died of dysentery, but really you wish she would have died before the last stop so you had room for that mega successful hunt, but now all you have is some bits of meat and headstone with her name on it.
Everybody has played Oregon Trail, sitting in front of putty colored apple computer that displayed three or four colors (partly what I blame my colorblindness on). It is my opinion that this game still tops all of the games that have come out since (except lemmings), and therefore the most memorable.
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I loved Oregon Trail as a kid. Maybe it was because I was so incredibly nerdy and I liked that it was based on history, or maybe I liked the suspense of it all. Will I make it through the journey with my 3 oxen and 2 spare wagon wheels? It probably had more to do with the fact that I was a kid and got to make life or death decisions. I guess I liked the power. Maybe that's why I loved the "Disaster" function of Sim City so much....
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