Thursday, October 11, 2007

On the Trail


I will re-start my blogging career by posting a picture of a totally awsome shirt given to me by the one and only T-Coop.
For those of you who remember the orginal Oregon Trail, this was one of the funniest messages you could get. It just seemed so wasteful to let players kill so much meat and then not be able to use it. You would expect a Native American to come out and yell at you, "This is your freaken problem! You are killing the earth!" But the game never went that route. Everyone knows half the fun of playing that game was the "Hunt for Food" option. Who was going to trade at the boring trading post when you could run around with a gun! And I'm talking the old school version, the black and green screen with the man with the stick for a gun. You would control it with the arrows and shoot with the space bar and kill everything you could. Lucky people killed several bison, unlucky people got stuck with the rabbits. I enjoyed holding two arrow buttons and the spacebar down at the same time and go in a circle shooting out the little green bullets everywhere, hitting trees and stuff. Ah, the good old days. In the new version, it's a first person shooting thing, a la Halo, and you get a laser sight thing and its all in color and the animals look sort of real, as compared to the green shapes in our day. Oh, the kids have it so easy.

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