Let’s take a moment to reminisce

Today’s subject is The Oregon Trail series of computer games, which were supposed to educate us (…how?) but mostly just provided us with a way to slowly kill fictional characters. A friend and I ALWAYS named the father of the family Abuser Joe, and then gave the families hardly any food and set them on a grueling pace. The rest of the family dropped like flies. I guess I did learn some things from Oregon Trail: if it wasn’t for that game, I wouldn’t know much about fording rivers, or know how damaging cholera and dysentery are to already underweight children. The best part of the game, aside from slowly picking off family members one by one, was going hunting. Sadly enough, Oregon Trail is probably still the video game where I’m most likely to hit what I’m aiming for. Shooting games just aren’t for me.

Some people made a fake trailer for the game. If you’re in the late 20s/early 30s demographic and ever played this game, you should definitely watch.