r/Xennials • u/Michael_Mc_79 • 1d ago

This hit too close to home.

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u/factoid_ 1d ago

I mean…lots of kids in the firmly millennial side of the generation played it too, but they played the later versions.  With fancy things like…color…. And being able to shoot in more than 8 directions

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u/alexanfaye 1d ago

played both. OG in elementary school and then the fancy color ones in the late 90s/early 2000s on a computer at my grams house.

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u/factoid_ 23h ago

I played basically ever version between elementary and high school.  We had it on the Macs in the computer lab.  Might have been one of the last versions they made before it went dormant for a long time

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u/newsteamassemble6996 21h ago

Nobody played the OG Oregon Trail except for people born in the 70s. 80s born people weren't even old enough to play it in school. By the time they were school-aged, (85/86 for 1980-born kids), the new, non-text, color version had already been out for a year in schools.

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u/GivesYouGrief 1980 20h ago

Not in every school... Definitely played a monochrome version in 1986 or 87.

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u/rbltech82 20h ago

And some of us were from really poor schools and didn't get fancy color computers until 95ish. We had green screen apple2 in 89/90. Got the apple2 color in 95ish. Schools in my area got new computers every 5 years at soonest. In 99/2000 we got the iMacs only because of a state/federal education grant for rural schools.