Dave -

Sep. 20th, 2005

8:49 AM

Alright, I know a few of you computer junkies used to get your fix playing the classic Apple II game Oregon Trail. Well Today I stumbled across a nifty interview with the original game designer, Phillip Bouchard. Checkit out over at Deadlyhippos.com

I later proposed doing a product based on the Underground Railroad, in which the player takes the role of an escaped slave fighting the odds to escape to Canada. I wanted to use the same underlying engine that I had built for Lewis & Clark. I never got the chance to design and build such a product, but MECC later created one using a different team. Interestingly, the product became highly controversial soon after its release, with parents actually staging protests against the product. MECC responded by pulling the product from the market.

And after that read stirs up a few goodtime memories of elementary school you can head on over to Virtual Apple and play a great assortment of emulated apple II games. Unfortunately the site requires IE since it uses activeX controls for the Apple II emulation engine, but on the upside it is a flawless recreation!

I had to ford it, because without faith what have you got left to depend on!

My Mamma tried to warn me that she t'weren't strong enough fer me.

Like we didn't see that coming...

The photorealistic graphics make my loins quiver with delight. The hunting simulation is so accurate it's just like the Nuge is standing to my left sipping on a High Life and sharpenin' his killin' stick!

At least we took the good bits, like the pizzle and the tongue.

That's what you get for sleepin with my lady. You just remember who shot that buffalo... I got plenty more bullets where those came from.

Trail Diary 4-13-48... Dear Diary, I knew the day would come when the loss of Blake from our river ford attempt would come to affect us...

We must be getting close to the Bay Area...

We tried to warn you that he was a wild fruit.

And on that fateful day Ick's weekend taxidermy classes really paid for themselves.

Trail Diary 6-11-48. Dear Diary, Kathy Bates accosted us during the night. I was forced to complete a sequel to my successful novella series. Ick however didn't fare as well as I, he has taken up a touch typing class in the hopes of avoiding further complications of this sort...

It was a truly epic day on the river, that is until we realized that Ick got drunk on firewater back at fort Walla Walla and traded our kickass wakeboards for a handful of Injun Spirit Fungus and a romp in the glory hole. At least the Spirit Fungus wasn't bunk...