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OWR: Oregon Trail

Category: Features, Posted: 07/13/2008 at 05:42PM EDT by OneWordReview, GamerNode Staff

One Word Review Oregon Trail is a game that will seemingly live on forever, at least in the hearts and minds of those who played it. It was a common sight in many-an-elementary school computer class, and fording the river, buying oxen, and catching deadly cases of malaria somehow manage to stick with you. This surprisingly fun game was considered educational more than a decade ago, and I, for one, am grateful for that.

So how do the GN writers and editors sum up Oregon Trail in just one word?

Brendon's OWR: "Dysentary"

Eddie's OWR: "Perilous"

Demetri's OWR: "Survivalism"

Creighton's OWR: "Fifthgradey"

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Posted by -=BINGO-BANGO=- on 07/13/2008 at 05:53PM

bastard

Posted by The Hylden on 07/13/2008 at 06:35PM

Fungicational.

Posted by Psyborg on 07/13/2008 at 06:35PM

Grueling.
(alternately:" Meager")

Posted by Psyborg on 07/13/2008 at 07:11PM

Whydomyoxenkeepdyingdamnit.

Posted by Imonfire on 07/13/2008 at 08:35PM

neverheardofit

Posted by Brendon on 07/13/2008 at 11:34PM

I vote we kill Imonfire.

Posted by eight on 07/13/2008 at 11:52PM

I second that. I hope he gets typhoid fever and dies.

Posted by Imonfire on 07/14/2008 at 12:20AM

Hey, in 1971 I wasn't even an idea in the brains of my parents!

Posted by Imonfire on 07/14/2008 at 12:20AM

Oops, it's 1974

Posted by The Hylden on 07/14/2008 at 01:05PM

Well, it was used for more than a decade and a half after that, and has had sequels. I can't even remember if it was 5th, or 6th grade when our class was made to play it. Whichever it was, that's about 1990, or 91.

I vote we kill imonfire's teachers. What were they, mad not letting you play it? It's the Oregon Trail!:p What better way to teach about settlers in the ol' west? Huh? Huh??

Posted by Archem on 07/14/2008 at 01:11PM

Drowned.

And I third this lynching idea.

Posted by intooblivion on 07/14/2008 at 01:17PM

Malarialicious