1) Dysentery is a nasty mess. It has killed many-a settler.
This is a funny coincidence, because I just found my old Oregon Trail game last night!

2) I can haz Oregon Trail?

How did you get O.T.? Did you buy it, download it ... but an old computer from the 90's at a auction for a middle school?

I've been trying to get it for years!

3) I was curious so I looked it up myself, looks like you can get it but it's not Vista compatible so keep that in mind if you have Windows Vista.

http://www.broderbund.com/jump.jsp?itemID=147&mainPID=1...

4) http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

5) Wow, Russ! That's awesome. Thanks for the link

6) Okay, I am almost in tears here. I have not thought about that game in sooooo long. I remember my elementary days, loving computer time because this is all I played.

I cannot believe I forgot my beloved game. I must purchase for me kiddies...NOW!

7) Yeah I just bought it from ebay, I think.

8) Note: Attempting to ford the river with 5 oxen is not advisable.

9) Does he realize making it to Oregon is a good thing, relatively speaking?

10) I think you can play it on facebook.

Is Mia going to visit Jenny, Ace and Sally Courtney?

11) That must be it, Jules.

I didn't think Ethan had ever heard of Oregon before. But he said it about a dozen times. And it was definitely Oregon that he was saying.

Brian: I think that Ethan's hoping Mia's novice skills will cause her to perish along the way. Chick's never even picked up a rifle before. How's she gonna kill those bison?

Am I crazy in thinking that if the whole class was playing Oregon Trail in the computer lab, you could read your classmate's tombstones in your game? That seems too advanced for Oregon Trail.

12) Courtney, if they'd played before on that computer, then their names appeared. But I don't know that if they were playing at the same time on different computers the tombstones had their names on them (unless Pawnee was behind the times).

13) oh man! I love Oregon Trail!

14) I feel old - not sure why but I cannot even remember this - but then again - I can't remember having computers in my classrooms either - that must be it. First class I had with computers was in college and then I learned how to use DOS and WordStar

15) I missed the Oregon Trail computer thing too, Meg. And I took typing my senior year in HS with some kind of DOS program. I think it was one of the first few years they offered typing on word processors instead of typewriters. That was the 1988/89 school year.

16) I graduated in 1990 and I remember playing Oregon Trail in the library in elementary school. Typing in highschool was on real typewriters and our computer class was all about some program called Prodigy...pre-AOL.

17) See - I graduated in 1987 - typing was on typewriters - my graduation present from my parents was a bulky word processor that had a black screen with orange typing on it. - LOL

18) I had one of those in college too Meggy!

19) That's the kind we had in typing class. And one of my college roommates had one of those my freshman year. I can only think of a handful of people who had computers, even through my senior year in college. If you needed to type something, you had to go use one of the public computer rooms and then pick up the printout the next day at the "computing center", which was only open for a few weird hours during the day.

20) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar

^^^I found this to be interesting - LMAO

and this http://salestores.com/brothe01.html

is similary to what I had - only it was the size of a small box - definately not portable - LOL

21) I don't think I have the word Oregon this many times total on my site! Man...I feel like the end of the rainbow! I vaguely remember seeing an Oregon Trail game in the store but I don't think I ever played it. I think maybe my friend who taught school and loved to play all the computer games may have had it and showed it to me. I do remember seeing some of it in action. Luckily it didn't take me so long to drive it when I came! I'd probably recognize some of the landmarks. Oregon City is big on promoting being the end of the OT--lots of hype about it. I've never gone over and looked at what they have--it's a bit of a drive for me due to the river being between us.

22) Meg, I graduated 9 years after you, and we were so poor that I also had a ginormous word processor in college. I could have typed my papers in the computer lab, but honestly, the word processor was better. And I also took typing on actual typewriters in high school. Fastest and most accurate in my class!