Loose Tongues Sink Wagons

[vovat]

So You Wanna Play Oregon Trail Do You?
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I don't think I've actually played played Oregon Trail, but I remember watching people play it at school. I know people were constantly dying of various diseases, and there was something about the wagon needing a new tongue. At the time, I thought it would be hilarious to have a wagon that used its tongue to talk a lot. Yeah, I made a lot of lame puns back then. Good thing I don't do that anymore. Oh, wait. I still do. {g}

Yesterday, while on my way to work, I slid off the road, and two guys in a truck had to help me back onto it. I'm lucky I didn't hit a telephone pole. The roads were really bad yesterday, yet they didn't close either bethje's school or the college where I work. Kind of odd, considering that they DID close at least Beth's school when the roads were much more navigable.

Oh, and I finished reading The Moorchild yesterday.

Comments

[slfcllednowhere.livejournal.com]

Oregon Trail rules all. You missed out, man.

[yosef.livejournal.com]

My whole family always died when I played that game and I was the only one who ever made it to Oregon City. "Bertha has been bitten by a snake!" (few minutes later) "Bertha has died!"

I also used to think it was a computer game we only had in Oregon until I found out everyone else played it in grade school too.

[bethje.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that, and I am offended that those form-style livejournaly things never include me when you do them. It hates my whole ass.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Never heard of what?

I am offended that those form-style livejournaly things never include me when you do them.

Yeah, so am I. They often show mostly people I don't know very well. I don't post most of them, though, so I can't recall whether you showed up on some of the ones I didn't post. I'll let you know next time you do.

[arfies.livejournal.com]

We had Oregon Trail on the green-screen Apple IIe. Good times. I always had fun naming the people...

"Snakebite got a snakebite!"
"Cholera has cholera!"
"Typhus has a broken arm!" (well, you can't win them all).

Watching those poor little overworked digital oxen. "Hey, I bought 8 of them! How come there's only two no matter how many I buy?!"

My favorite part of the game was making the whole party die and getting to write on the tombstone: "Here Lies HERE LIES. How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon?" and seeing the grave in future games. (NOTE: Good thing I wasn't a real pioneer. We'd never have a Western United States).

Although Oregon Trail II and 3, which we have now, are more "realistic" and in color- with actual people!- it's not nearly as much corny fun. Plus, you don't get to make a tombstone and see it later! :(

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Watching those poor little overworked digital oxen. "Hey, I bought 8 of them! How come there's only two no matter how many I buy?!"

Well, see, the others are riding INSIDE the wagon. That's why the thing's always falling apart. Lousy freeloading oxen.

[arfies.livejournal.com]

No wonder everybody on the trip gets sick and dies. I'd die too if I had to sit in a broken wagon stuffed with six oxen all the way to Oregon.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Especially when the oxen keep saying, "Are we there yet?" over and over again.