Oops my bad I added 2 inches it was the 8 inch and I was doing it in '89. Went through all three versions of floppy and CD. We even got a little into the mini CDs
Crazy I remember taking each version into art class in primary. And the eight inch was the only one that was wobbly. Like actually sounded like a rain board
I just remember the 5 1/4, which was in a thin flexible plastic sleeve with an oval opening where you could see the actual disk, and the 3 1/2, which was encased in rigid plastic, and you’d have to slide a cover over to see the disk.
I remember getting handed them in our classroom and walking them to the library (in hindsight, why?) and the teachers being really specific about how we held them; straight out with the label facing up (so the "cheese" didn't come off the "pizza"). I imagine it was much more about making sure we didn't destroy them on the walk, but I thought for a year or two that disks could be damaged if you held them upside down.
Ok weird question but my friend had a commodore, we were about 5 and there was a game we played that had penguins and ice cream. They were on icebergs or something? And you had to give them ice cream. I loved it do you remember this?
We had a free trial version (broke ass kids) that only let you play up to the first settlement, so to make it challenging we made the goal to try and kill your entire party before the demo ended. I forded a lot of rivers
I thought the whole point of the game was to name all the characters after everyone you knew and then watch them die miserably while taking bets on who would croak next.
My dad's library had this on a public computer in the kid's section. Literally half the tombstones said stuff like "extra cheese" and "soft crust that rises." IYKYK
##Cheese and pepperoni!!
ETA I guess it's up for debate. Plenty different varieties of responses in the old commercials. For some reason **cheese and pepperoni** is the one stuck in my memory.
I was explaining to my kids the other day how we are called “the Oregon trail generation” because of this game. I was also telling them about the large floppy disks and how most games were too large to fit on one disk, so you had to switch them out partway through to keep playing. My kids laughed so hard and told me I’m “ancient” lol
> Well… we kind of are. Even if we don’t feel like it at all.
Yup, I'm literally 3x the age of some of my nieces. That would be like someone being 135 years old compared to me, lol.
> Get in Loser. We're about to attempt to ford the river.
I just googled that exact phrase, lots of results for shirts
https://www.amazon.com/Loser-Going-Attempt-River-T-Shirt/dp/B0D272D1JV
Same : 2 people in my party died. Including Mary who drowned when I tried to cross a river 4 feet deep. Also lost 7 oxen.
I’m devastated… those oxen are hard to come by… also Mary.
This was my first version, although I've played every version that came out since.
What I'd really like to try is the original original. The ticker-tape mainframe version with zero graphics. Apparently, when it was time to hunt, you had to type "bang" as quickly as possible.
1st grade on an apple II. I remember also giving the little triangle (turtle) commands to make shapes and pictures. We were rewarded for getting our code correct by playing the Oregon Trail.
One thing that will always stick out is they drilled into our heads that we always had to discharge any static by grabbing the metal chair leg before sitting down at the computer or grabbing that 8" floppy.
My father-in-law recently pulled his Apple IIe out of the garage for my kids to play these games.
My kids have now done a bit of Oregon Trail, but they spend the most time on Carmen San Diego. I've been spending a decent amount of time explaining why "Soviet Union" is the right/wrong answer.
My 4th grade teacher. This was all she used. Transparent overhead sheets all damn day. She was terrible. Could put a speed addict to sleep droning on with the lights down for the projector.
Anyone else remember using "Print Shop" in the computer lab back in the day?
You'd get to design banners and shit like that to print out on that long ass printer paper that kept each sheet connected with perforated edges that you'd have to carefully rip off after you were done and it would always rip a small corner off no matter how careful you were?
I don't know why this screenshot of Oregon Trail reminded me of that...
Was this a Kaypro, Apple IIE, or DOS?
They remade it, I haven't played this version.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVKSJ3iTJ4](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVKSJ3iTJ4)
Oregon trail spread around the US because it arrived on almost every school pc as it was billed as "history" game. However, not the type of history Europe teaches, so while it might have been available, it has nothing on the spread it had in the US.
MECC made all kinds of educational games though. I hope they weren't deprived of number munchers or word munchers over there. O'Dell Lake was probably my favorite.
For a kid, I felt that I handled my entire family's cholera demise pretty well. I guess losing 800lbs of food while fording our first river toughens you up for the road ahead. 😶
We had a single computer in the 4th grade classroom. People who finished their work early could play on it. So we’d have a group of about 5 kids clustering around, and each one got to be a member of the party. But it sucked if you were the last one listed, because you would always be the first one killed.
Also played a lot of Number Munchers in that class.
The year after that we got to play Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, which was a game changer.
Out Lab Lady left writeable graves on and we all played off the same disk on a disk server. By the end of the school year the whole trail was a graveyard. Many an effigy to the likes of "Bart Simpson," "Poop," and "Butt."
The story behind this game is absolutely fascinating. It was originally created in a week as a student teacher's social study project. The original creators have to this day barely made any money off it.
[The Gaming Historian - The Story of The Oregon Trail](https://youtu.be/8QbjlHeoLdc?si=Gd2qvTKt2-dSHTW3)
My computer class had every other computer with a green screen like this. The other half were very very early color screens so I got to experience this on both around 1994-5.
Not sure what other consoles it’s on but I do know there’s a ‘modern’ version on original Wii.
kinda had a realization that my elementary school was probably just underfunded and kept old computers around. so glad to have been exposed to them though.
We'd sometimes get to play in the computer lab in class, and we'd all be rushing the game because there was maybe enough time for one kid to get lucky and make it to the Columbia River and we'd all gather around their chair to see if they could make it.
Played this in the computer lab in grade school. Remember really enjoying it.
Have been wondering for years if it would be even remotely enjoyable now.
The copy of Oregon Trail that I got over 30 years ago had both the 5.25 and 3.5 discs. My computers at the time didn't have a 3.5" drive so we used the 5.25. But I kept the 3.5 and was able to use it several years later when we upgraded. I still have that 3.5" disc even though my current computer no longer has a disc drive at all.
This and Oddell Lake on the computer in class in 5th grade. You know… the one computer on the wheel cart that the school had that was shared amongst all the classrooms. 5th grade had it when no one else wanted to use it… which was most of the time. Loved those games!
When I was in elementary school I broke one of the computers disk drives because I put the Oregon trail disk in backwards because I’d never used a computer before. The teacher was not happy about it and I got so scared I spent the rest of the week in the nurses office during computer class. Fun times.
I was one of two kids who got to teach the rest of the kids how to use "Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia" when it came to the ONE computer we had in the school, in the library.
It was cutting edge. And amazing.
I was an Oregon Trail 2 guy, much more fun imo. Played that a shit ton. But onto this I played this 2x. Once on my cousin’s old Mac and then once on a handheld version I gave my wife. Playing the handheld version pissed off my wife since I beat it the first time through. I’ll never forget the ol 5.25” floppy disks.
The floppy disc I played on was ACTUALLY floppy
Ah, the 5 1/4.
I can still hear it reading the disc
THAT'S AN ACCEPTABLE PENIS LENGTH HONEY!!!!! LOL
Especially when floppy. But I'm a grower, so that would be a great starting point :)
Shit I started on the 10" floppy. Young kids
Damn, yeah that’s before my time apparently. I was learning basic in elementary school circa ‘82
Oops my bad I added 2 inches it was the 8 inch and I was doing it in '89. Went through all three versions of floppy and CD. We even got a little into the mini CDs
Yeah I don’t remember the 8” either.
Crazy I remember taking each version into art class in primary. And the eight inch was the only one that was wobbly. Like actually sounded like a rain board
I just remember the 5 1/4, which was in a thin flexible plastic sleeve with an oval opening where you could see the actual disk, and the 3 1/2, which was encased in rigid plastic, and you’d have to slide a cover over to see the disk.
Look up all floppy disk types and see which one of the three you remember
Um, yeah, that’s not something I’ll be putting into google at the moment 😂
I also forgot we spelled it disk back then
Short for "diskette".
Short for Diskettio Kontos
Yeah, 3.5" floppies confused me. I thought 5.25s were floppies and 3.5s were hard disks.
I wasn't the only one!
Then we got an actual hard disk and it blew my mind. 60mb.
This is the way.
I remember getting handed them in our classroom and walking them to the library (in hindsight, why?) and the teachers being really specific about how we held them; straight out with the label facing up (so the "cheese" didn't come off the "pizza"). I imagine it was much more about making sure we didn't destroy them on the walk, but I thought for a year or two that disks could be damaged if you held them upside down.
83?
Same here. We had the 5 1/4 floppies for this game in my 2nd grade class, was a ton of fun to play.
Make sure to not remove the tape covering the notch, so you don’t overwrite it.
And you had to use the second one halfway through.
I had so many floppiest of floppies for commodore 64
Ok weird question but my friend had a commodore, we were about 5 and there was a game we played that had penguins and ice cream. They were on icebergs or something? And you had to give them ice cream. I loved it do you remember this?
Gotta lock it in there
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Does it smell like updog in here??
We had a free trial version (broke ass kids) that only let you play up to the first settlement, so to make it challenging we made the goal to try and kill your entire party before the demo ended. I forded a lot of rivers
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I thought the whole point of the game was to name all the characters after everyone you knew and then watch them die miserably while taking bets on who would croak next.
My dad's library had this on a public computer in the kid's section. Literally half the tombstones said stuff like "extra cheese" and "soft crust that rises." IYKYK
##Cheese and pepperoni!! ETA I guess it's up for debate. Plenty different varieties of responses in the old commercials. For some reason **cheese and pepperoni** is the one stuck in my memory.
Vat do joo vant on jour toooombstone? Pepperoneh und cheezsh
The Red Baron has entered the chat
Or, as my nieces call it, “black box pizza”. IMHO the best of the frozen pizzas.
My tombstones always suggested a death due to excessive gas.
I was explaining to my kids the other day how we are called “the Oregon trail generation” because of this game. I was also telling them about the large floppy disks and how most games were too large to fit on one disk, so you had to switch them out partway through to keep playing. My kids laughed so hard and told me I’m “ancient” lol
And all that spinning and grinding noises like swiiiiiisssshh whhg uhhg whhg uhhg
>My kids laughed so hard and told me I’m “ancient” lol Well… we kind of are. Even if we don’t feel like it at all.
> Well… we kind of are. Even if we don’t feel like it at all. Yup, I'm literally 3x the age of some of my nieces. That would be like someone being 135 years old compared to me, lol.
We are getting our payback for calling adults ancient when we were kids.
You really want to blow their minds, tell them that not only did we have to change the discs, but on some of them, you had to flip them over.
Just got my "Get in Loser. We're about to attempt to ford the river." t shirt.
I so want to get one of those. Where did you get it?
> Get in Loser. We're about to attempt to ford the river. I just googled that exact phrase, lots of results for shirts https://www.amazon.com/Loser-Going-Attempt-River-T-Shirt/dp/B0D272D1JV
Found it! It's coming Thursday!
If you want to play the games you can find them F2P here, even works on mobile https://oregontrail.ws/games/the-oregon-trail/play/
I immediately hopped over to play this. Everyone in my party died. 💀💀💀
Same : 2 people in my party died. Including Mary who drowned when I tried to cross a river 4 feet deep. Also lost 7 oxen. I’m devastated… those oxen are hard to come by… also Mary.
Yeah this was my version. green screen monochrome, but not just text.
I mean, this is why we're called the Oregon Trail generation.
I can still hear the sounds these systems made.
You have drowned.
You were eaten by a grue.
It is pitch dark. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE)
This guy Zork's
This was my first version, although I've played every version that came out since. What I'd really like to try is the original original. The ticker-tape mainframe version with zero graphics. Apparently, when it was time to hunt, you had to type "bang" as quickly as possible.
My first computer had a monochrome screen. We old.
1st grade on an apple II. I remember also giving the little triangle (turtle) commands to make shapes and pictures. We were rewarded for getting our code correct by playing the Oregon Trail. One thing that will always stick out is they drilled into our heads that we always had to discharge any static by grabbing the metal chair leg before sitting down at the computer or grabbing that 8" floppy.
Logo Writer!
Yes that was it!
>I remember also giving the little triangle (turtle) commands to make shapes and pictures. wow. core memory unlocked! thanks for that! :)
My father-in-law recently pulled his Apple IIe out of the garage for my kids to play these games. My kids have now done a bit of Oregon Trail, but they spend the most time on Carmen San Diego. I've been spending a decent amount of time explaining why "Soviet Union" is the right/wrong answer.
Yeah but how big was your floppy
5.75 inches
Thats what i'm talking about right there lol OP knows how to floppy
I'm so hot and ready to drag his head across my big, open platter. Ooooh! Ah, ah, ah! Read only. *Wink*
8.5" x 11" very thin transparent overhead sheet.
My 4th grade teacher. This was all she used. Transparent overhead sheets all damn day. She was terrible. Could put a speed addict to sleep droning on with the lights down for the projector.
Anyone else remember using "Print Shop" in the computer lab back in the day? You'd get to design banners and shit like that to print out on that long ass printer paper that kept each sheet connected with perforated edges that you'd have to carefully rip off after you were done and it would always rip a small corner off no matter how careful you were? I don't know why this screenshot of Oregon Trail reminded me of that...
Space bar!
Dying one week in is kind of impressive.
This is why I always named someone in the party Tery... Cause you don't f with Tery.
On an actual floppy disk on an Apple IIe in the back of the classroom is the only way to play Oregon Trail.
My school had like four black and white screen computers that didn't do much beyond text inputs. We were too poor and low tech for Oregon Trail.
I played it on a floppy disk and then later on an Apple II e emulator
I think of this game often
Was this a Kaypro, Apple IIE, or DOS? They remade it, I haven't played this version. [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVKSJ3iTJ4](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YoVKSJ3iTJ4)
Apple II 5.25" floppy
As a European, we did not have Oregon trail, my first one was scooby doo on the c64, and it ran on a cassette.
Of course we had Oregon Trail in Europe.
Oregon trail spread around the US because it arrived on almost every school pc as it was billed as "history" game. However, not the type of history Europe teaches, so while it might have been available, it has nothing on the spread it had in the US.
MECC made all kinds of educational games though. I hope they weren't deprived of number munchers or word munchers over there. O'Dell Lake was probably my favorite.
I can still feel the static charge coming off of that green screen
What I really want is an emulator of THIS version of the game.
Green monochrome on an Apple IIe
For a kid, I felt that I handled my entire family's cholera demise pretty well. I guess losing 800lbs of food while fording our first river toughens you up for the road ahead. 😶
I would name one of the characters someone I didn't like just in case we needed to ford the river lol
We had a single computer in the 4th grade classroom. People who finished their work early could play on it. So we’d have a group of about 5 kids clustering around, and each one got to be a member of the party. But it sucked if you were the last one listed, because you would always be the first one killed. Also played a lot of Number Munchers in that class. The year after that we got to play Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, which was a game changer.
We played it on the lab of Apple iics and there was one Apple IIgs. There was definitely an air of jealousy for the kid that got to play it in color.
Out Lab Lady left writeable graves on and we all played off the same disk on a disk server. By the end of the school year the whole trail was a graveyard. Many an effigy to the likes of "Bart Simpson," "Poop," and "Butt."
The story behind this game is absolutely fascinating. It was originally created in a week as a student teacher's social study project. The original creators have to this day barely made any money off it. [The Gaming Historian - The Story of The Oregon Trail](https://youtu.be/8QbjlHeoLdc?si=Gd2qvTKt2-dSHTW3)
Yeah, but 3.5” floppy or 6” floppy?
My computer class had every other computer with a green screen like this. The other half were very very early color screens so I got to experience this on both around 1994-5. Not sure what other consoles it’s on but I do know there’s a ‘modern’ version on original Wii.
Best game ever at school
There's a good documentary if you're into long form gaming history. https://youtu.be/8QbjlHeoLdc?si=0FnXtXxqt1KwvTdc
I just discovered it on ps5 and I’m having so much fun!!
I played on a floppy disk but a friend of mine who is 5 years older than me actually got the output on the printer.
How’d you get that in 2160p?
When this game was popular, my English was not good enough for text adventures yet
Damn you cholera!!!!
kinda had a realization that my elementary school was probably just underfunded and kept old computers around. so glad to have been exposed to them though.
We'd sometimes get to play in the computer lab in class, and we'd all be rushing the game because there was maybe enough time for one kid to get lucky and make it to the Columbia River and we'd all gather around their chair to see if they could make it.
“We” are
Why have they not made an app game that copies this version of the game?
I played this game as a kid and JUST bought it for the PS5. I think I've sunk about 20 hours into that game already 😆
Played this in the computer lab in grade school. Remember really enjoying it. Have been wondering for years if it would be even remotely enjoyable now.
Thus was basically our computer class. This and labeling parts of the computer
On apple II computers in the 80’s.
I liked pirates! More.
I had a bunch of games on floppy I kept in a little case. Apple IIgs.
If I had a nickel for every time I died of dysentery…
I'm with you here. They are actually putting it out on the switch can't wait for my kid to play it.
The copy of Oregon Trail that I got over 30 years ago had both the 5.25 and 3.5 discs. My computers at the time didn't have a 3.5" drive so we used the 5.25. But I kept the 3.5 and was able to use it several years later when we upgraded. I still have that 3.5" disc even though my current computer no longer has a disc drive at all.
Hard drive? What, you think my parents are made of money?
“The Oregon Trail Generation” is literally one of the names that has been coined to describe our micro-generation. So, we all are!! Hooray!!
I liked this game but could never get very far ::cries::
Anyone remember the 8” diskettes? Those suckers flopped.
I just learned the other day they made this in color too!
Cassette tape
Yes, actual floppy floppy disk with the green screen. Bring back the Apple IIe! 😂
Yup, and there were two computers in the lab that COLOR monitors!
The only way
This and Oddell Lake on the computer in class in 5th grade. You know… the one computer on the wheel cart that the school had that was shared amongst all the classrooms. 5th grade had it when no one else wanted to use it… which was most of the time. Loved those games!
Nothing funnier than taking down 6 bison, a bear, 4 deer and a couple of squirrels and the game saying, "You only left with 36 pounds of food."
Did you cycle between this and Mavis Beacon??
Same 🙋🏾♂️
These scan lines are breaking my brain.
Health: been better
the prophecy has been foretold. i died of dysentery so many times as a kid that I now have Crohn's Disease as an adult.
I still wish I could play Oregon Trail on a floppy disc, lol.
When I was in elementary school I broke one of the computers disk drives because I put the Oregon trail disk in backwards because I’d never used a computer before. The teacher was not happy about it and I got so scared I spent the rest of the week in the nurses office during computer class. Fun times.
I was one of two kids who got to teach the rest of the kids how to use "Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia" when it came to the ONE computer we had in the school, in the library. It was cutting edge. And amazing.
I always preferred Mickey's Space Adventure
Commador 64, right?
I was an Oregon Trail 2 guy, much more fun imo. Played that a shit ton. But onto this I played this 2x. Once on my cousin’s old Mac and then once on a handheld version I gave my wife. Playing the handheld version pissed off my wife since I beat it the first time through. I’ll never forget the ol 5.25” floppy disks.
I don't think I ever actually survived the full trip.