This is quite possibly the greatest piece of news of all time. The Oregon Trail is coming to the big screen! With an epic cast, loads of adventure and adapted from one of the most beloved franchises of all time, I can’t wait to see how they caulk the wagon and float across (plus I actually got to add the word “dysentery” as of the post tags for this article!). If you don’t see the greatness in this trailer, please just rest for four days and keep moving.
thanks to topless robot for the heads up!
So really? No one finds this entertaining enough to comment on this? It’s like the Zombieland of mid-late 80s elementary school computer users.
“But son, we can only carry back 10 pounds of meat!” That always frustrated me so much! I think they got every bit of the game in here.
I think this is an american thing, never heard of it
…what Rot said.
Really? Never? So bizarre…
In contrast, this trailer did bring back a lot of memories for me – especially, yes, hunting all the time, but only ever bringing back a fraction of the meat.
You guys didn’t have Oregon Trail in Canada?
That and Carmen Sandiego were the first computer games I ever remember playing, on my best friend’s Apple II in about…1989? 1990? We played for HOURS.
Never had Oregon Trail!? I suppose that makes sense, but you guys were totally deprived.
The banker, caulking the wagon, only buying bullets, etc. Genius trailer here.
I’m Canadian, and I definitely played Oregon Trail! But I have no idea which ghetto Rot and Kurt grew up in in which they had no access to that game…
For what’s it worth, I lol’d.
I was too busy playing Friday the 13th I guess
Friday 13th Ruled, Rot! Bloody Skulls! Piercing computerized screams! Awesome, if nonsensical, game.
Oregon Trail came out probably close to a decade or two before the Friday the 13th game. I was playing that in 82′ and it was an old game then.
Looking at this trailer, I do even dare to Wikipedia the game, let alone play the game (born in 1989). It looks horrible. No even nostalgia can rescue this awful trailer.
I’m pretty sure it’s a spoof Antho (at least I hope so).
And I don’t remember this either (I was born in 1982), although the name rings a bell. In my deprived northern English upbringing our schools could never afford the ‘big name’ computers, we had BBC Micro’s and Acorn Electrons – man they sucked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
Yes, this is definitely a spoof. It might work as a 20 minutes short, but the trailer is already pitch perfect.
There were a few iterations of the game. When I first played it in 1st grade (1982), it was mostly text based with some very simple graphics (hit the space bar as the deer goes by for hunting) and it was monochromatic. Then about 4 years later the color version came out on the Apple IIgs where your character can actually walk around on the screen and hunt animals (but you can only carry back 10 lbs!). I think there are even more advanced incarnations of the game to date, but at some point we got to old for this sort of thing in school.
Switchbladecomb recommends Gary Busey play dysentery in the movie. Ha.
you can download free the Friday the 13th game here:
http://www.classic-pc-games.com/c64/games/friday_the_13th.html
And by the way, please tell me F13th was not an educational game for you guys in school. If it was, that would explain a lot.
If you have an iPhone and get nostalgic, there’s a solid, if a bit prettified, port of Oregon Trail. It updates the graphics, but still has all the quirky stuff spoofed in the trailer. I think it’s not quite as hard, though – I got through it in one try without my entire party dying. Still, fun for a few bucks.
the only game I ever remember playing at school was Tank.
Holy shit, we played tons of different educational games: Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, Odell Woods, Number Munchers, Battle Typer, SimCity, Read n’ Roll, Fraction Munchers, Gold Rush, etc etc.
I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and There were not many computers in the schools in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I do remember some sort of ‘survive on a desert island’ game. It had graphics and everything in it, but I do not remember what it was called. We played it a lot though, because the computers (Commodore PET?) were quite novel at the time.
Other gaming and such was done on our own time, later on IBM 8086/8, APPLE II, and Commodore 64/Amigas as they became cheaper and more prevalent. I do not ever recall computer games as being a part of the school curriculum in my neck of the woods.
Did anyone play that Geometric Golfer game?
I played Reading and Matt Blaster. Mostly learning how to type programs, though.
You played Sim City at school? Awesome. I can’t remember any that we played, it was just simple maths shit, never anything fun. I too played my first games at home on my Acorn Electron then my Amiga. Man the Amiga was a great console/PC/whatever. Shoot ‘Em Up Construction Kit was my favourite, I made the ultimate Star Wars shoot ‘em up on that!
Man, Canadian schooling sucked. We had computer labs every day in elementary school.
We learned reading and writing and mathematics. You know, in the books without pictures.
Hence you don’t get the simplest of jokes: “Here lies poop face.” Makes me laugh.
Hence, it explains Jesse Ventura’s governor stint in Minnesota.
Great stuff. This is one of the games that defined my childhood for sure. Heh. Poop face. Only people that played this as a child will appreciate the humor in that.
Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, Odell Woods, Number Munchers, Fraction Munchers… talk about flashback.
The Alderaan Trail:
Set of five images reimagining The Oregon Trail in the Star Wars universe over here. Good stuff for us nostalgic folk.
A Taun-taun on Alderaan? Where’s the respect for canon?
Oh, did Lucas make that game?
I think they’re on the way TO Alderaan. Although, yeah, that doesn’t explain why there seems to be a Sand Person on there along with the taun-taun. Or trees, if it’s supposed to be Hoth.