General Discussions => Inner Glimpse => Topic started by: bezerker on February 27, 2009, 01:52:44 pm
Title: Oregon Trail
Post by: bezerker on February 27, 2009, 01:52:44 pm
play the old school version for free here :
http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html
good luck gettin to oregon !
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Post by: Gfunk on February 27, 2009, 02:28:58 pm
wow, memories!
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Post by: jocelyn on February 27, 2009, 04:14:09 pm
Nice! Here\'s to not getting cholera!
Did anyone ever play Amazon Trail? That was a fun one too.
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Post by: weekapaug19 on February 27, 2009, 06:27:16 pm
how do you get past the part where it says flip to disk 2??
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Post by: Klout on February 27, 2009, 07:02:43 pm
hit f3 paug ;)
has anyone ever made it oregon with all their party members alive?
I def have not
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Post by: bezerker on February 27, 2009, 07:15:04 pm
i didnt realize you cant get to the next disk with a mac. what a dooze !
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Post by: weekapaug19 on February 27, 2009, 09:17:57 pm
Quote from: Klout;221352
hit f3 paug ;)
has anyone ever made it oregon with all their party members alive?
I def have not
tried that, no luck....i\'ll try again tho
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Post by: Lexington on February 28, 2009, 01:42:15 pm
i just won!!!!
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Post by: ds673488 on February 28, 2009, 04:13:20 pm
this game is a staple of my childhood, love it
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Post by: Klout on February 28, 2009, 04:33:18 pm
I won with a score of 2754 no deaths in the party, seemed too easy though but maybe I just played it ill and it is easier now that I am no longer 10 years old hehe.
Started in march as a banker witha gruelling pace and kept it up till june then went down to steady and had filling rations the whole time and stopped to rest and hunt a lot and played alll the rivers right and rested whenever health slipped to poor.
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Post by: bezerker on February 28, 2009, 04:40:13 pm
klout = longest sentences ever. is that a run on ?
i\'m still pissed i cant play it with my mac. god damn f3
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Post by: weekapaug19 on February 28, 2009, 06:22:44 pm
just have 3687 points....made it with 4 people in fair health, lost good health status on last move
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Post by: FrankZappa on February 28, 2009, 07:35:26 pm
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Post by: jocelyn on March 01, 2009, 11:35:13 am
Damnit! I knew I wasn\'t feeling too well today, but I thought it was because I drank 2 bottles of wine last night.
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Post by: Lexington on March 01, 2009, 12:52:37 pm
heh. dysentary. at the end of my trip, it was just me and my cat. Dr. Wooken drowned while crossing the very first river, Alli died of typhoid and my roomates dog franklin died after he broke both his arms :(.
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Post by: SlimPickens on March 01, 2009, 03:03:53 pm
I made it! Lost 2 family members (both to typhoid), and my GD daughter must have bones of glass because she kept breaking arms and legs. But I almost made the Oregon Top Ten.
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Post by: FrankZappa on March 01, 2009, 03:04:08 pm
yea, I played again last night and realised my mistake on the first trip, I got 200lbs of food because that\'s what he said, but I got 200lbs for the whole trip whereas it said per person, so I should have had 1,000lbs. The second game I went with alli, jocelyn and a couple people from work and I killed them all, including my friends 7yr old who drowned when I tried to forge a 4ft deep river. The first time I played I went light on supplies and just got a ton of bullets figuring I could just steal from other people along the way, but nooooo, that\'s not allowed aparently. um, hello, my group is starving, you have food and I have guns. Lets be realistic here.
joc, in your memory I\'m going to go break into a bottle of wine. ;)
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Post by: FrankZappa on March 01, 2009, 03:15:23 pm
Quote from: jocelyn;221311
Nice! Here\'s to not getting cholera!
Did anyone ever play Amazon Trail? That was a fun one too.
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Post by: SlimPickens on March 01, 2009, 03:38:12 pm
Quote from: FrankZappa;221468
Quote from: jocelyn;221311
Nice! Here\'s to not getting cholera!
Did anyone ever play Amazon Trail? That was a fun one too.
i hope that kid gets cholera
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Post by: FrankZappa on March 01, 2009, 04:44:29 pm
who-hoo! 5th place in the top ten. go as the banker so you have more money. Only lost one person this time too.
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Post by: Wolfman on March 01, 2009, 11:45:18 pm
Quote from: FrankZappa;221473
who-hoo! 5th place in the top ten. go as the banker so you have more money. Only lost one person this time too.
GREAT find! Many hours of grades 3-5 went into this game!
The banker is the worst if you\'re going for a high score. The carpenter gets his score doubled and the farmer tripled when you complete the game.
I still remember my strategy. I\'ve broken 9,000 points, STILL a Charlotte A. Dunning Elementary School record. The strategy is
-Farmer, always the farmer -Start in March -Blow all your money at the start (except for $10 for the 2 ferries) on 12 oxen, 10 clothes, 1 of each spare part, 10 boxes of bullets, no food. (Still remember this formula 18 years later.) -For the first month don\'t travel at all, just hunt. Load up on grub. Only shoot big game, no squirrels or rabbits. You\'ll float b/w 100-300 lbs on you the whole trip. When you drop below 100, hunt again. -Always travel strenuous, never steady or greuling. Except once you can see The Dalles, switch to steady to maintain health. You MUST reach The Dalles in good health. At the two forks in the game, do not go to the forts, they add distance and forts are useless when you travel broke. -Always stop for 3 days if someone gets sick. Can\'t afford to have anyone die, it\'s a point killler. -Filling rations whenever possible (should be always.) -Never rest, always hunt or attempt to trade instead. You still get the benefits of rest and sometimes you can score some awesome trades -At Snake River, a glitch in the game lets you "barter" with the Shoshoni guide. Just keep turning him down until you get an offer of 2 sets of clothing. It\'s still no guarantee you\'ll make it but I think having the guide is about 90% successful. -As you approach the Dales (the last landmark), stop short and rest as long as you need to get to good health. This is huge for your score. -Always float down the river at the end and for the love of god don\'t screw it up! I\'ve had otherwise perfect games get ruined here so make sure you\'re good at it.
Here\'s tonight\'s scorecard! Not bad at all for 17 years off!
Finished as farmer on October 10th
5 people in good health: 7500 1 wagon: 150 10 oxen: 120 4 spare wagon parts: 24 13 sets of clothing: 26 72 bullets: 3 2 pounds of food: 0 (finished with 2lb! That\'s efficiency!) $0.00 cash: 0
Final score: 7875, #1 on top ten.
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Post by: SlimPickens on March 02, 2009, 07:12:36 am
Quote from: Wolfman;221491
Quote from: FrankZappa;221473
who-hoo! 5th place in the top ten. go as the banker so you have more money. Only lost one person this time too.
GREAT find! Many hours of grades 3-5 went into this game!
The banker is the worst if you\'re going for a high score. The carpenter gets his score doubled and the farmer tripled when you complete the game.
I still remember my strategy. I\'ve broken 9,000 points, STILL a Charlotte A. Dunning Elementary School record. The strategy is
-Farmer, always the farmer -Start in March -Blow all your money at the start (except for $10 for the 2 ferries) on 12 oxen, 10 clothes, 1 of each spare part, 10 boxes of bullets, no food. (Still remember this formula 18 years later.) -For the first month don\'t travel at all, just hunt. Load up on grub. Only shoot big game, no squirrels or rabbits. You\'ll float b/w 100-300 lbs on you the whole trip. When you drop below 100, hunt again. -Always travel strenuous, never steady or greuling. Except once you can see The Dalles, switch to steady to maintain health. You MUST reach The Dalles in good health. At the two forks in the game, do not go to the forts, they add distance and forts are useless when you travel broke. -Always stop for 3 days if someone gets sick. Can\'t afford to have anyone die, it\'s a point killler. -Filling rations whenever possible (should be always.) -Never rest, always hunt or attempt to trade instead. You still get the benefits of rest and sometimes you can score some awesome trades -At Snake River, a glitch in the game lets you "barter" with the Shoshoni guide. Just keep turning him down until you get an offer of 2 sets of clothing. It\'s still no guarantee you\'ll make it but I think having the guide is about 90% successful. -As you approach the Dales (the last landmark), stop short and rest as long as you need to get to good health. This is huge for your score. -Always float down the river at the end and for the love of god don\'t screw it up! I\'ve had otherwise perfect games get ruined here so make sure you\'re good at it.
Here\'s tonight\'s scorecard! Not bad at all for 17 years off!
Finished as farmer on October 10th
5 people in good health: 7500 1 wagon: 150 10 oxen: 120 4 spare wagon parts: 24 13 sets of clothing: 26 72 bullets: 3 2 pounds of food: 0 (finished with 2lb! That\'s efficiency!) $0.00 cash: 0
Final score: 7875, #1 on top ten.
DAMN!
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Post by: FrankZappa on March 02, 2009, 11:04:56 am
and then 2 months later, a little russian game called "tetris" came over to the u.s. and seth never played oregon trail again.
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Post by: Wolfman on March 02, 2009, 11:45:40 am
LOL that pretty much sums up my childhood. I was lucky that Tetris and Oregon Trail didn\'t conflict, since I played Tetris at home and OT at school.
Now, can anyone find a Flash version of MathBlaster?
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Post by: Lexington on March 02, 2009, 02:06:56 pm
wow seth. just 1 one more reason i am proud to call you \'friend\'.
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Post by: Wolfman on March 02, 2009, 09:43:27 pm
lol thanks Lexi
OT was the first video game I ever mastered, along with Where In The USA Is Carmen Sandiego, which I got nasty at over the same time period. Nothing like popping in those 5.25 inch floppy disks and hearing that disk drive purr! I mastered both games on 1-color green screens and computers with NO HARD DRIVE! By 7th grade we had a computer at home with EGA 8-color graphics and a whopping 516KB hard drive (WOW, that\'s half of one megabyte!) and that\'s when I moved up and eventually mastered Doom, SimCity, Aces of the Pacific, Sid Meyer\'s Railroad Tycoon, F117A Stealth Fighter, Descent, Doom2, SkiFree, Minesweeper, and Flight Simulator 2.0
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Post by: peaches626 on March 02, 2009, 09:47:10 pm
whats your secret to skifree?
i always raged the climb up hill underneath the ski lift move to steal points... also, i found one angle where you could get away from the abonimable snowman for a while, but eventually he always gets ya
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Post by: Wolfman on March 02, 2009, 10:58:16 pm
Quote from: peaches626;221635
whats your secret to skifree?
i always raged the climb up hill underneath the ski lift move to steal points... also, i found one angle where you could get away from the abonimable snowman for a while, but eventually he always gets ya
At first I thought it was to hit all the rainbow ramps and click the mouse as fast as possible to do lots of flips. This is the best "legit" way to rack up points, especially if you get lucky and land directly on a second rainbow ramp, you\'ll fly clear off the screen for a few seconds and can rock like a 20-back-flip 10-rotation jump.
For the highest possible score, use the chair lift glitch. When you pass under a chair lift you score points. If you STAY under a moving chairlift, your score will keep going up. Find a chair moving downwards and ride slowly under it. Position the pointer just above the skiier and keep clicking so you do flips. You\'ll hit your head on the chair and wipe out every time but you\'ll still get points for both flipping and being under the chair. Keep doing this for a while and you\'ll have a massive score, then you can climb back up (under a moving chair of course!) and do it again.
Yep, no avoiding the evil snowman, when he wants you, he gets you!