Warping my childhood (with zombies!)
Last night I discovered that, holy crap, The Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego are being imported as Facebook games! I am well pleased; both games were big parts of my childhood. I can remember cursing dysentery and rivers in computer class and then at home struggling to remember what the capital of Texas was so I could capture Carmen Sandiego, and it really brought me back. Out of pure nostalgia, I looked up The Oregon Trail on Wikipedia, and discovered a link to a similar game.
This similar game is called The Organ Trail, which I can only describe as "The Oregon Trail, except in modern times. And during the zombie apocalypse." So I played it and took screencaps. It was fun times. (The screencaps are rather large; be warned.)
So here we have the start screen. You have to type in numbers and yes/no for commands, and the graphics are all old-timey.
And I chose to be a cop from Kentucky, because I'm pretty sure that's what Rick Grimes, the main protag of the TV show/comic book "The Walking Dead," was pre-apocalypse. And I like "The Walking Dead."
So naturally, I named my character Rick. This game is pretty damn genre-savvy; in the red brackets are Tallahassee, Columbus, and Wichita from Zombieland, and in blue is Shaun from Shaun of the Dead, and all of them are awesome protags in zombie films. As for the unbracketed girl, something tells me she is a character from the video game Left 4 Dead.
Anyway, the game prompted me to name my party members, and I complied happily.
Nat and Pen are named for the characters from SR, because I love them, and Wichita's namesake is from Zombieland, and Vanessa's is Inigo's wife because I was writing Chapter 45 that day. (Yes.)
And with this, we are thrown headfirst into the zombie apocalypse! Yay.
Damn, son. Usually Uncle Sam doesn't bring out the nukes until like the end of the movie.
The basic premise of the game is that you have to get to Oregon from Washington DC in a station wagon (I see what you did there), because otherwise you're getting nuked.
After getting supplies from this respectable-looking fellow, we're off!
Our little party was driving, everything was great, la la la.
...CRAP.
In this game, getting bit isn't necessarily the end-all. But if you get bit and then run out of health, you turn into a zombie. Fortunately, the option to "kill party member" is always there!
Oh, the genre-savvy. It burnsssssss.
Then Wichita got dysentery, which led to me having horrible memories of my entire wagon train being decimated by dysentery.
...which led to this. Crap.
But time marched on, and I did not screencap a lot because nothing really happened.
WELL THAT'S ALWAYS GREAT.
SHITFUCK
NAT. WHAT THE FUCK?
AGAIN?
HOW DO YOU GET BITTEN BY A ZOMBIE TWICE, YOU FREAKING DUMBASS?
Oh my God, seriously? How does one of our fuel cans just "go missing"? The hell?
Then this happened. I don't know how Vanessa got "incapacitated," but apparently she is.
Please take a moment to admire just how much of a fail my wagon train is here. The skulls mean zombie infectee.
*stops considering Option 6*
Then Vanessa died. idk, you guys.
At this point, my brother was hovering over my shoulder and said, "You're going to Albuquerque? Isn't that in New Jersey?" I enjoyed a hearty laugh at his expense.
A SNOWSTORM. IN NEVADA/ARIZONA-ISH. REALLY
Maybe the game is sentient and is trying to parallel situations in real life, because I can tell you we've got a snowstorm going on up in this bitch right now.
When you're at rest stops, you can talk to other survivors. This was one conversation that I liked. Yay for not using the z-word!
...I just liked the pixelated Las Vegas sign.
DRINKING "SLUDGE" CAN ONLY BE A GOOD THING, Y/N
Then this happened:
NAT.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
WHY WOULD YOU JUST "WANDER AWAY," YOU CRAZY-ASS ZOMBIE INFECTEE?
ASJDFGHTYREGFBTREJKLKJ;
~wagon train of fail, y'all~
This was after I spent approximately a zillion dollars on medkits for my zombie infectees, just because I liked them that much. But I guess Nat, like an elephant, thought it was a great idea to wander off into the desert to die. *fume*
OH.
THAT'S COOL.
JUST GET BITTEN AGAIN, JUST LIKE NAT.
Well, that's healthy. Just follow vultures for your next food source. Cool.
So we had to pass through a zombie horde, only they attacked the car, and this happened. I'm glad the zombies have their priorities straight. Tasty humans < $madchedda$
Where the hell is this ash coming from?!
OH.
MY.
GOD.
THIS IS NOT A REPEAT. THIS IS PEN GETTING BITTEN BY ZOMBIES THREE TIMES. I SHIT YOU NOT.
PEN HAS SUCH A FABULOUS AND AMAZING LIFE, AMIRITE? GAWD I'M ~JELLIS
DUDE. RU SRS RIGHT NOW?
what is this I can't even/I don't even/asjhgfdghfdgfvdsewrrtyyjgghf;
Well, after much trial, tribulation, and stupidity, we made it to Oregon! Considering I never got past Salt Lake City in the real Oregon Trail game, this is a big moment for me.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if my score amounts to a level like "Supreme Overlord Of Loser Dumbasses Who Should Have Been Nuked."
Also, I have 36 slides of Chapter 45, currently titled "Smoke and Mirrors."
~June
This similar game is called The Organ Trail, which I can only describe as "The Oregon Trail, except in modern times. And during the zombie apocalypse." So I played it and took screencaps. It was fun times. (The screencaps are rather large; be warned.)
So here we have the start screen. You have to type in numbers and yes/no for commands, and the graphics are all old-timey.
And I chose to be a cop from Kentucky, because I'm pretty sure that's what Rick Grimes, the main protag of the TV show/comic book "The Walking Dead," was pre-apocalypse. And I like "The Walking Dead."
So naturally, I named my character Rick. This game is pretty damn genre-savvy; in the red brackets are Tallahassee, Columbus, and Wichita from Zombieland, and in blue is Shaun from Shaun of the Dead, and all of them are awesome protags in zombie films. As for the unbracketed girl, something tells me she is a character from the video game Left 4 Dead.
Anyway, the game prompted me to name my party members, and I complied happily.
Nat and Pen are named for the characters from SR, because I love them, and Wichita's namesake is from Zombieland, and Vanessa's is Inigo's wife because I was writing Chapter 45 that day. (Yes.)
And with this, we are thrown headfirst into the zombie apocalypse! Yay.
Damn, son. Usually Uncle Sam doesn't bring out the nukes until like the end of the movie.
The basic premise of the game is that you have to get to Oregon from Washington DC in a station wagon (I see what you did there), because otherwise you're getting nuked.
After getting supplies from this respectable-looking fellow, we're off!
Our little party was driving, everything was great, la la la.
...CRAP.
In this game, getting bit isn't necessarily the end-all. But if you get bit and then run out of health, you turn into a zombie. Fortunately, the option to "kill party member" is always there!
Oh, the genre-savvy. It burnsssssss.
Then Wichita got dysentery, which led to me having horrible memories of my entire wagon train being decimated by dysentery.
...which led to this. Crap.
But time marched on, and I did not screencap a lot because nothing really happened.
WELL THAT'S ALWAYS GREAT.
SHITFUCK
NAT. WHAT THE FUCK?
AGAIN?
HOW DO YOU GET BITTEN BY A ZOMBIE TWICE, YOU FREAKING DUMBASS?
Oh my God, seriously? How does one of our fuel cans just "go missing"? The hell?
Then this happened. I don't know how Vanessa got "incapacitated," but apparently she is.
Please take a moment to admire just how much of a fail my wagon train is here. The skulls mean zombie infectee.
*stops considering Option 6*
Then Vanessa died. idk, you guys.
At this point, my brother was hovering over my shoulder and said, "You're going to Albuquerque? Isn't that in New Jersey?" I enjoyed a hearty laugh at his expense.
A SNOWSTORM. IN NEVADA/ARIZONA-ISH. REALLY
Maybe the game is sentient and is trying to parallel situations in real life, because I can tell you we've got a snowstorm going on up in this bitch right now.
When you're at rest stops, you can talk to other survivors. This was one conversation that I liked. Yay for not using the z-word!
...I just liked the pixelated Las Vegas sign.
DRINKING "SLUDGE" CAN ONLY BE A GOOD THING, Y/N
Then this happened:
NAT.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
WHY WOULD YOU JUST "WANDER AWAY," YOU CRAZY-ASS ZOMBIE INFECTEE?
ASJDFGHTYREGFBTREJKLKJ;
~wagon train of fail, y'all~
This was after I spent approximately a zillion dollars on medkits for my zombie infectees, just because I liked them that much. But I guess Nat, like an elephant, thought it was a great idea to wander off into the desert to die. *fume*
OH.
THAT'S COOL.
JUST GET BITTEN AGAIN, JUST LIKE NAT.
Well, that's healthy. Just follow vultures for your next food source. Cool.
So we had to pass through a zombie horde, only they attacked the car, and this happened. I'm glad the zombies have their priorities straight. Tasty humans < $madchedda$
Where the hell is this ash coming from?!
OH.
MY.
GOD.
THIS IS NOT A REPEAT. THIS IS PEN GETTING BITTEN BY ZOMBIES THREE TIMES. I SHIT YOU NOT.
PEN HAS SUCH A FABULOUS AND AMAZING LIFE, AMIRITE? GAWD I'M ~JELLIS
DUDE. RU SRS RIGHT NOW?
what is this I can't even/I don't even/asjhgfdghfdgfvdsewrrtyyjgghf;
Well, after much trial, tribulation, and stupidity, we made it to Oregon! Considering I never got past Salt Lake City in the real Oregon Trail game, this is a big moment for me.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if my score amounts to a level like "Supreme Overlord Of Loser Dumbasses Who Should Have Been Nuked."
Also, I have 36 slides of Chapter 45, currently titled "Smoke and Mirrors."
~June