Play 1978 Oregon Trail in the browser

Oregon Thread yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32645822

Whenever I come across The Oregon Trail, I'm reminded of this awesome article:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/no-son-of-mine-plays-ore...

It unironically completely changed my perspective on the game.

I was always confused when I saw nostalgia screenshots of Oregon Trail, because they had fancier graphics than the version I remembered. Then I saw this version, which is even older than the one I played. So I searched and found this site with all the versions: https://www.pcgamer.com/every-version-of-the-oregon-trail-ra...

It looks like I played the 1980 version, which at least had a primitive type of graphical hunting.

I attempted to emulate the 1975 version by interpreting the basic as JS. It probably has some issues in the conversion, but it should be more accessible: https://chrismiceli.github.io/TheOregonTrail/

It essentially creates a state machine for each line of Basic, and uses a loop as the program counter. going into the appropriate state based on variables.

Oregon Trail goes back to 1971 as this first installment is 50 Years of Interactive Fiction explains

https://if50.substack.com/p/1971-the-oregon-trail

Does this work?

Using macOS/Safari - all I see is a prompt with text saying "PRODOS BASIC 1.5 COPYRIGHT APPLE 1983-92"

EDIT: Never mind, you need to click the "Run" button in bottom right for it to work.

This is the first time I ever made it all the way to Oregon.