http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6942 BACKED. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) Indiscernible from Magic Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:22:13 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6942 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6941 I think this is a good place to put... this. Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) Indiscernible from Magic Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:34:58 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6941 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6892 My sister was also famous in her family for her semi-crude names left on headstones. Her goal was always to kill off everyone in her wagon as soon as possible. It was to her great dismay that the game wouldn't let you leave without buying any food. But you could buy 10 pounds of food and immediately dump it. lizinthelibrary@idkfa.com (lizinthelibrary) Indiscernible from Magic Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:03:57 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6892 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6891 Pre-Internet, though? Pre-Internet was a different story. I think it was... 96? 97? When we first got the Internet. Pretty sure I'd been watching my Dad, my grandfather, and my uncle play Sierra, Lucasarts, and other assorted adventure games since ~90. Watching playthroughs nowadays, I'm fairly sure I had no clue what was going on. Maybe that's why they let me watch them play Leisure Suit Larry until my incessant questions would drive them to madness. Daggerfall was a bizarre game, but it was one of the first sandbox games and for the computers we had it was at an incredible scale. As a DOS / early Windows game, it contained ~15,000 towns with ~750,000 unique NPCs (not that they were all unique, most were just procedurally/randomly generated). I mean, you could follow the thin story missions, but they were boring, formulaic, and you had to read. Instead, it was much more fun to just roll a new character and pick a random town on the map to terrorize. We would roll characters, and see how long we could survive, or even get past a single dungeon. However, at some point we figured out the user interface for the character building screen was broken, such that even though the "increase stat" button would disappear when you couldn't "increase" it anymore, you could still click the button and it would increase your selected stat. With god-like abilities at level 1, the game was effectively broken as the game couldn't decide what level of difficulty you were at, or what random events you would be presented with that would try to drive the story. As such, rather than contend with the game, the game we made was to enter a town naked (it was one of the few games where stripping all items from your character would result in a nude avatar, male or female), and just go nuts. The first step was usually finding the brothels where the pixelated naked woman sprite would face you no matter where you were at in the room. After giggling at kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Indiscernible from Magic Sat, 10 Jan 2015 05:39:34 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6891 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6890 In 1993 I caught my sister convincing my parents to purchase Oregon Trail at the Fairbanks Fred Meyer. Requiring parity, X-Wing, a Star Wars space combat simulator, made it onto the conveyor belt. But that's not what this story is about. Everyone in my household eventually dabbled with Oregon Trail. The over sized box was torn apart and the discs within were inserted successively into the old Gateway machine that replaced an aging Apple product. After my sister had her fun, I commenced with playing the shit out of it - and left a trail of bodies in my wake. As the game became too easy - repeated expeditions fine tuned to maximize survival - I intentionally ramped up the difficulty with my own cruel rules. Purchase only bullets and oxen at the start. Never trade for food or medicine. Carry nothing extra. Grueling pace. Always. Never stop. For anyone. For anything. Meager rations. Always. Ford every river immediately. Acquire only axles or wheels as necessary. The cart must always move. Hit every rock on the mini-game river-float at the end. Only the strong survived. Disease and "food" was the Darwinian method for parsing out the weak and feeble. The Trail was the great judicator. I think I quit playing when I completed my ultimate goal - survive to Oregon sans a family. So many times my parasitic wife or children would survive cholera and starvation, reaching the promised land a shell of who they once were, but alive. Those fruits of the west coast were to be mine alone. However the best part - and main catalyst for remembering all of this - is that my mother would also play. The game stored information beyond high score. When your quest failed (as mine so often did, under such despicable conditions), the game left a headstone where you finally capitulated. Mommy stumbled upon the fabled Butthead Expedition, and Butthead's tombstone. She was at first appalled the developers had such crude tastes at Green Man@idkfa.com (Green Man) Indiscernible from Magic Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:12:29 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6890 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6889 The iphone version of SimCity and Oregon trail totally made me crazy happy. lizinthelibrary@idkfa.com (lizinthelibrary) Indiscernible from Magic Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:59:40 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6889 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6888 yup, I can't wait to start playing legit shitty oregon trail again. Katy is going to die of dysentary so many times. MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) Indiscernible from Magic Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:12:06 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6888 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6887 Shit, man. Just bring in the old beater laptop and get your Oregon Trail on. Banker and Bullets fo' life. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) Indiscernible from Magic Wed, 07 Jan 2015 19:09:02 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6887 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6886 This pretty much just made my day at work. Except our lame IT lady just told me I can't download and play while I'm actually at work, on my actual work computer. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2 MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) Indiscernible from Magic Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:00:01 -0900 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=6886&msg_id=6886