Well, I didn't know all schools did it but it is one of two things and I think its the 2nd but I did the first as well.
1. There was a game that a class would play where you had a group of about 5 people as a team and there was a giant map of the trail for the class and each wagon represented a group. You had to achieve certain things to advance like roll a certain number with dice or throw a bean-bag into the garbage from a certain distance. If you were successful, you moved forward. It took like 2 weeks to do the game (just because teachers don't want to spend more than a certain amount of time in class with one game at a time) and the first team to finish the trail wins.
However, I think this was only a local thing although every elementry school in my area played it. I believe for the list, it may be the following:
2. The classic Oregon Trail video game for computers. Entire classes would be excused for computer time and everybody played this game. Educational AND fun! You could name every member on your wagon and sometimes you'd get attacked by indians, or get sick and die. You also made attempts to cross the rivers but if it was too deep, you watch your oxen drag the wagon under water and the message says how much supplies you lost and if anybody died. Freakin funny. My favorite part: You could name somebody "Jim" and it may say "Jim got sick and died". So I would name people "Nobody" or "Everybody" so it would say "Everybody died" even when only one person died. Quite funny when you are in 2nd grade.
Originally posted by Mythcry but i didnt get computer time
Well, I didn't know all schools did it but it is one of two things and I think its the 2nd but I did the first as well.1. There was a game that a class would play where you had a group of about 5 people as a team and there was a giant map of the trail for the class and each wagon represented a group. You had to achieve certain things to advance like roll a certain number with dice or throw a bean-bag into the garbage from a certain distance. If you were successful, you moved forward. It took like 2 weeks to do the game (just because teachers don't want to spend more than a certain amount of time in class with one game at a time) and the first team to finish the trail wins.
However, I think this was only a local thing although every elementry school in my area played it. I believe for the list, it may be the following:
2. The classic Oregon Trail video game for computers. Entire classes would be excused for computer time and everybody played this game. Educational AND fun! You could name every member on your wagon and sometimes you'd get attacked by indians, or get sick and die. You also made attempts to cross the rivers but if it was too deep, you watch your oxen drag the wagon under water and the message says how much supplies you lost and if anybody died. Freakin funny. My favorite part: You could name somebody "Jim" and it may say "Jim got sick and died". So I would name people "Nobody" or "Everybody" so it would say "Everybody died" even when only one person died. Quite funny when you are in 2nd grade.
we weren't allowed to touch the computers, unless you had a computer at home... our school had 900 students, and three computers.... each one with a whopping great 32k RAM.... let me add a few for our British posters....
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Originally posted by Myth
Well, I didn't know all schools did it but it is one of two things and I think its the 2nd but I did the first as well.1. There was a game that a class would play where you had a group of about 5 people as a team and there was a giant map of the trail for the class and each wagon represented a group. You had to achieve certain things to advance like roll a certain number with dice or throw a bean-bag into the garbage from a certain distance. If you were successful, you moved forward. It took like 2 weeks to do the game (just because teachers don't want to spend more than a certain amount of time in class with one game at a time) and the first team to finish the trail wins.
However, I think this was only a local thing although every elementry school in my area played it. I believe for the list, it may be the following:
2. The classic Oregon Trail video game for computers. Entire classes would be excused for computer time and everybody played this game. Educational AND fun! You could name every member on your wagon and sometimes you'd get attacked by indians, or get sick and die. You also made attempts to cross the rivers but if it was too deep, you watch your oxen drag the wagon under water and the message says how much supplies you lost and if anybody died. Freakin funny. My favorite part: You could name somebody "Jim" and it may say "Jim got sick and died". So I would name people "Nobody" or "Everybody" so it would say "Everybody died" even when only one person died. Quite funny when you are in 2nd grade.
I LOVED Oregon Trail!!!! My friends and I still play it sometimes 😆