It's weird that Oregon Trail is such a Millenial meme because it and Carmen Sandiego are literally the ONLY "edutainment" things anyone liked back then
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I mean it was also the only edutainment any school system bought
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Replying to @HenryWHall @BootlegGirl and
And then in 1994 you got Amazon Trail if your school had bothered to upgrade from the Apple 2
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Replying to @HenryWHall @arthur_affect and
Amazon Trail... gosh that was a hard, bad game Not as bad as MayaQuest, which also made no sense (you're a bike messenger and only you can find the ancient codes for the anti asteroid satellite bc the scientist just died and no one has a helicopter, also you only have $50)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I gotta say these games were just distractions to give teachers a moment to breathe. Nobody learned shit. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realized Banker from Boston was easy mode. It was just an unspoken rule that if you picked anything else you were dumb.
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Replying to @HenryWHall @BootlegGirl and
We all bought as much ammo as possible and went on a murder spree the second you could hunt. That game was not educational in the slightest, we were playing that fucking thing as a shoot em up.
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Replying to @HenryWHall @BootlegGirl and
The hunting was the least historically accurate part of the simulation because it was put in just to give players something interesting to do and therefore ironically was the most popular part
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryWHall and
On the other hand the fact that the difficulty level of the game was completely determined by how much money you started with was, sadly, very accurate (as it is with almost any endeavor in any time period)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Oh, absolutely, that point was just lost on literally everyone I went to school with because we were never really given any sort of introduction to the game and the general consensus was "who would choose to be born with less money?"
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Replying to @HenryWHall @arthur_affect and
WHY NOT SIMPLY BOOTSTRAPS YOURSELF INTO A BANKER FROM BOSTON?
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That's the whole thing of course, the hilariously sadistic nature of Oregon Trail the game is a subversive skewering of all these pioneer tropes The majority of people who successfully moved to Oregon were wealthy families who paid professionals to do everything for them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryWHall and
The actual poor farmers doing the Little House on the Prairie thing ran right into that high attrition rate As did the actual family from Little House on the Prairie
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