"The Oregon Trail"

[evenwolf]

Its been a long time coming!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHps2SecuDk

[TerranRich]

Hah, that's hilarious.

[evenwolf]

Was Oregon Trail popular outside the US?   This was the ONE game I could play in class.   For whatever reason this educational game ended up on school computers across the states.

[TerranRich]

The games I remember from my middle school days are Orgon Trail, Montezuma's Revenge (a euphemism for diarrhea, funnily enough), and whatever Apple BASIC games I could program.

[Technocrat]

We never had Oregon trail, but we had Amazon trail at our school! Which is odd, since it was a school in Kuwait, near to neither the Amazon nor Oregon.

[InCreator]

Funny theme - but for some unknown reason, comedies have become worst kind of movies and most frequent source of disappointment. A new thriller, drama or even (!) horror movie might be decent, but comedies tend to fail.

This one will also. Few game-jokes won't save it. Trailer looks SO weak!

Also, most of international audience will skip this one. I don't think Oregon Trail made much farther than stone-age US computer classes.

[TerranRich]

Um, you do realize this is a joke, right?

[DoorKnobHandle]

Was Oregon Trail popular outside the US?   This was the ONE game I could play in class.   For whatever reason this educational game ended up on school computers across the states.

It was popular in Germany even though I never played it (due to not having any access to an Apple computer whatsoever).

[Domino]

I played a little bit of Oregon Trail when I was in school when I was little, But the one game I played the most was "Lemonade Stand".

That seemed more popular in my school than Oregon Trail. Sure was fun though.

[InCreator]

Um, you do realize this is a joke, right?

Oh.

Still not funny- collegehumor.com already did Minesweeper one

[TerranRich]

They also did a Legend of Zelda trailer.

[evenwolf]

What's the difference?   Trailers for retro games are funny on their own merit.   Before college humor made the minesweeper trailer in 2009, Zoltarkill made this in 2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWL6j0SvqV0


According to Increator's logic, minesweeper & oregon trail aren't funny because Zoltarkill's Pacman claimed all the funny 4 years ago.

[Crimson Wizard]

That Pacman trailer isn't funny as well

It made me smile a little... but this is rather a strained kind of humor, in my opinion.

[Scarab]

Man, when I was in school, this was the educational game I lived for 


Math Rescue!

[Babar]

I remember this math game! I think it was just called MATH GAME or something, no?

Involving adding, subtracting and....butterflies. There was even this other math game where I think you were a knight, and I believe it had a world view map, where you went to specific places, then the platforming started (I think).

And there was Ecosaurus!

Of course, all that was at home. When I was a kid, we didn't mess around with silly "educational" games in school. We had Jetpack. And Dangerous Dave. And before that, we used to compete at who could type out A to Z the fastest. And we'd send little messages to each other using SEND "somethingsomething".

[TerranRich]

Oh man... I remember when I installed Space Quest III in several of my middle school's computers about 15 years ago, and it caused an awesome uproar of awesome love for the game, and the genre in general. I felt like I was introducing a whole new world to these kids.

[Dualnames]

People in my school had no educational games. So somebody went and installed Ubik the Prehistoric and he was god. God till I owned him with Quake! Yeah!

[Kweepa]

We need to make this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mattmarchini/TheAlderaanTrail#
I think it would be pretty easy in AGS.