Comments on: The Oregon Trail (Apple II Edition)

By: andy

andy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:02:05 +0000

People using Mac OS X may be interested in AppleIIGo, a nice Apple II emulator in the form of awidget.

Just do a Google search for it, or search on Apple’s widget download page.

By: John Dough

John Dough — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:43:22 +0000

In High School they had Oregon Trail on the big 5″ floppies. No graphics, just text. I don’t remember how but I figured how to change the text and save it so the next person who played it read my text. Being in High School my sense of humor was “dirty” as were the new things I thought up for the game. I never did hear if anybody played my version.

By: Tina K

Tina K — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:28:26 +0000

Total classic. In 6th grade, all the computer lab was good for was typing and playing Oregon Trail.

By: Caleythia

Caleythia — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:21:33 +0000

It’s great to see one of my favorite games from childhood. I remember playing this in computer lab back in grade school, when floppy discs were floppy.

I tried both the VirtualApple version and the clone, and I have to say, I prefer the original graphics. Both fail when it comes to hunting though. The hunting on Westward Trail is awful. You only get one shot. As for the Apple version, hitting space bar to shoot kept dumping me into the toolbar of my browser instead of firing. I got so frustrated I closed the tab.

Still, though, thanks for the flashback.

By: B Marlowe

B Marlowe — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:36:11 +0000

Oregon Trail was my son’s first computer game. He played it on an Apple IIc (he was about 5 at the time). When he was really angry at his playmates, he swore he was going to give them all smallpox. It took me awhile to figure out where he got that from – it was the Oregon Trail game. Love that computer learning!