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Re: Oregon Trail for Atari 8-bit?

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On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:47:23 +0000, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> Was Oregon Trail (famous in elementary school Apple II labs in the 1980s)
> ever released for the Atari 8-bit?  I've found some public domain 'sports'
> (shooting) game with the same title, but it doesn't bear any resemblance to
> the game I played on those ugly old Apple IIs.
> 
> Thanks to Kevin Savetz (who posted that he has cholera over on Facebook ;) )
> for reminding me of the game.  (Though I also did recently see an article
> about the _early_ history of the game... did you know that I did not know
> that it was originally a board game? :)  Is THAT what kids had to do before
> there were Apple IIs infesting their schools?  I'm not sure what's worse?
> Hey, who threw that tomato?  What's those hook for--)

I swear I can sort of remember this as a type in game in some magazine. It
was a text only game, right?

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