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here lies andy; peperony and chease2024 Apr 3
Oregon Trail is basically the most perfect game ever created. It's got a dramatic story (you're striking out west to make your fortune!) thrilling violence (characters break their bones and die of preventable diseases on the regular) and a gritty climax (caulking your wagon and floating it through The Dalles). It also lets you leave tombstones behind for members of your party who die along the trail. As in, permanently leave tombstones, so that any subsequent player of that copy of the game can visit and read that tombstone.
When, years later, someone ripped an Oregon Trail ROM and put it online, it included one such tombstone from a party member who passed early in the game, essentially guaranteeing that every single person who's played Oregon Trail in the last twenty years has encountered it. And what's on that tombstone is the most perfectly 90s thing ever: a horribly-spelled reference to a 1995 TV commercial for Tombstone frozen pizzas.
Oregon Trail is basically the most perfect game ever created. It's got a dramatic story (you're striking out west to make your fortune!) thrilling violence (characters break their bones and die of preventable diseases on the regular) and a gritty climax (caulking your wagon and floating it through The Dalles). It also lets you leave tombstones behind for members of your party who die along the trail. As in, permanently leave tombstones, so that any subsequent player of that copy of the game can visit and read that tombstone.
When, years later, someone ripped an Oregon Trail ROM and put it online, it included one such tombstone from a party member who passed early in the game, essentially guaranteeing that every single person who's played Oregon Trail in the last twenty years has encountered it. And what's on that tombstone is the most perfectly 90s thing ever: a horribly-spelled reference to a 1995 TV commercial for Tombstone frozen pizzas.
Here lies andy
peperony and chease