# You are sick with typhoid: The Oregon Trail appreciation thread.

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 21, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-sick-with-typhoid-the-oregon-trail-appreciation-thread/568467 "2011-01-21T17:08:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-sick-with-typhoid-the-oregon-trail-appreciation-thread/568467/61 "2011-01-24T22:51:09Z")

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A friend of mine had the lemonade stand game with some kind of error on it. We played it for quite a while before figuring out that no matter what you did or did not do, you would never sell one single glass of lemonade from your stand, not to anyone, not ever. It was the most depressing game imaginable.

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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-sick-with-typhoid-the-oregon-trail-appreciation-thread/568467/62 "2011-01-25T21:15:31Z")

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Showing my (lack) of age, we played the [DOS version on Windows 95](http://www.dosgamesonline.com/screenshots/full/oregontraildeluxe3.gif). We had Oregon Trail, Encarta '95 (with the quiz game) and Myst. Guess which one rarely got played? Yeah, we were pretty simple minded back then.

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