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The Oregon Trail

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30 pointspetethomas13 comments

Could not see or scroll to top quarter of the screen on mobile yet somehow made it to the end with 5 people! Is this implementation as hard as the original? Which I never played but saw referenced many times

Archive.org has a couple old versions available:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990

All this talk of "old" versions, but they have graphics and sound! Sherman, set the wayback machine for 1975...

https://ifiction.org/games/play.php?cat=1&game=418

Also never played the original, but made it to the end with 4/5 people and a score of 7k. I feel like the difficulty likely isn't the same

Hunting was not as easy as just clicking a button. You had to rotate your avatar in the 8 directions and press the space bar to shoot. The bullet may also be blocked by landscape and previously shot carcasses.

Events also occur a lot more often such as thieves stealing your supply. You were also allowed to trade in case you lost your oxen which determines how far of a distance you can go each day. The total distance was also longer than just 500 miles.

Nice work! Would you lower the volume on the gunshot sound effect though? I had headphones on when I pressed the "Hunt" button and the unexpected gunshot sound effect was extremely loud.

Was fun. Made it with only one party member dead (by cannibals) and plenty of food and money.

1/10 did not contract disentery.

But seriously, I played this on an apple 2 emulator a couple of years back, and it seems like the logic under the hood is a bit off. I wonder if the original source code is still available.

It's not very mobile friendly but still enjoyable.

It seems to try to be responsive..but doesn't work. Somehow that is more annoying.

Fun little game. Consider resizing some of your images though, they are way bigger than they need to be and really chew through mobile data.

Josephine was accidentally shot and killed by Dick Cheney when she wandered away from the group. Oh dear. :)

that music

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