# Oregon Trail II kicks ass! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946 "2000-10-15T00:02:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/1 "2000-10-15T00:02:52Z")
See above. I love it. It’s so much fun, hunting for food, and traveling. And the best part is, when my people die, or my wagon overturns, I just start over from where I last saved. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/2 "2000-10-15T00:37:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*See above. > I love it. It’s so much fun, hunting for food, and traveling. > And the best part is, when my people die, or my wagon overturns, I just start over from where I last saved. > \*\* I remember (and here I go dating myself)playing the original Oregon Trail on the Apple PC at school. Is there a place to play on-line for either of these, or a place to download either of them, preferably for free? I feel like a nostalgia kick, and I can’t find my Coleco-Vision anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/3 "2000-10-15T00:40:54Z")
The girl on the cover of OT2 looks EXACTLY like my sister! Maybe I should post that in Very Vaguely Creepy… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/4 "2000-10-15T01:47:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gunslinger \* > \*\*The girl on the cover of OT2 looks EXACTLY like my sister! Maybe I should post that in Very Vaguely Creepy… \*\* Yes, you should. Also, I too remember the first one. I played it in third or fourth grade. It’s so old, though, thinking of it now. Then i got Oregon Trail II a few years later, for my Mac. I remember hunting for food. Isn’t there a new **NEW** Oregon Trail that came out a few years ago? I’m not too into Oregon Trail now- i’m not a computer game person, really. But i like the Sims. Sooner or later, im gonna have to make a thread dedicated to them. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/5 "2000-10-15T02:33:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tristan \* > \*\* > I remember (and here I go dating myself)playing the original Oregon Trail on the Apple PC at school. > \*\* So did I! That was so much fun. Whoever was playing would always name the other party members after their friends or the teacher and would loudly announce whenever anyone got sick or died. And didn’t those primitive graphics seem cool at the time? I remember when you went hunting you controlled a little bulky white pixellated stickman while bulky white pixillated animals ran around the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/6 "2000-10-15T03:22:10Z")
Ironically enough, Drain Bead purchased the original Oregon Trail CD when she was here and we rummaged around the cheap bin of the local Office Max. Never played it before, but I had fun with her and it. Would get the second volume if I found it… * * * Yer pal, [Satan](http://www.members.tripod.com/jmspoofe/sdmb/satan.jpg) \*TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING: Six months, six days, 1 hour, 20 minutes and 28 seconds. 7562 cigarettes not smoked, saving $945.28. Extra time with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 10 minutes. **I slept with a moderator!** \* ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/7 "2000-10-15T22:10:20Z")
Yeah, I think there’s a really advanced one out there now. It’s fun! I mean, yeah, it’s childish and silly, but you get to write in a diary, and purchase food, and none of my other games work. And the ones that do aren’t my kinds of games. (I want to the Sims sooooo bad). The graphics are better now…a lot better. REAL people in them. Only now you can’t make tombstones…☹ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/8 "2000-10-15T23:41:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Yeah, I think there’s a really advanced one out there now. > It’s fun! I mean, yeah, it’s childish and silly, but you get to write in a diary, and purchase food, and none of my other games work. And the ones that do aren’t my kinds of games. (I want to the Sims sooooo bad). > The graphics are better now…a lot better. REAL people in them. > Only now you can’t make tombstones…☹ \*\* Hm maybe I SHOULD get it. The Sims is great it too kicks ass, in my opinion. You should get it, Guin! ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/9 "2000-10-16T05:05:36Z")
The best thing about OT1 was that it showed the cute little animated oxen, and their legs moved according to the pace you set (the highest pace setting made 'em swish back ‘n’ forth really fast). The best thing about OT2 was my sis on the box :). There was also a bug such that, while hunting, you’d occasionally see a moose plodding along in the sky, high above the mountains in the background. Very surreal… Unfortunateley, the CD got so scratched up it doesn’t work anymore ☹ ::tries it, just in case:: Oh joy! It works! A miracle! I’ll see if I can get a screenshot of the girl that looks like my sis (I’ve seen her in the game once…) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oregon-trail-ii-kicks-ass/36946/10 "2000-10-16T15:26:18Z")
I’ll get it as soon as I get my computer upgraded.