I adored Super Amazing Wagon Adventure (Xbox Live) it was silly but a load of fun. Currently its not available for mac (and I don’t see that changing soon) so i’m left with little choice but to go and play a game that heavily influenced it, and i’d never played before. Oregon Trail (DOS) on the surface its an educational game, so I felt that the only way forward with it was to name my party on this trail, Cock, Knob, Balls, Shaft and Bell. I set out with food, ox, bullets and spare parts (assuming we were already clothed) in the month of March, foolishly assuming that i’d make it to the warmer summer months. My next decision was to ration my party heavily, this wasn’t going to be a jolly. The going was easy for the first few days, and even got to a town where someone was willing to trade food for a wagon wheel, but supplies were in enough supply because of my heavily rationing that I declined. I got to a river, given the option I decided to float my wagon across, which at first seemed like the easiest option until…
just outside of my first main settlement Knob got ill. I wasn’t too concerned though, as I hoped to find supplies in the town, the very next day though (and 20 miles down the road)...
These were hard times, I decided that in the town i’d stock up on supplies, up the rations to cheer my crew up. Sadly the only thing people wanted to trade in this town were wagon parts for more wagon parts. I spent a load of cash on food anyway.
I was starting to regret crossing that river, my companions health was not getting better and we were a long way from any sign of civilisation. Things continued to get worse.
This was just a day later, we had a lot of food, so much that I was wondering if even at my more carefree rationing, we’d get much further. Bandits saw there opportunity at this point to steal all our bullets as we were sleeping. It all got too much for Shaft, who I don’t think ever got over Knobs death.
I consoled myself with the knowledge that Cock and Balls were okay, and measles didn’t seem as bad as the other illnesses being handed out on my wagon.
The weather wasn’t letting up and now Balls was on his way out. It was all getting too much.
The landmark that had been on my horizon for the past 250miles or so turned out to be just a tree stump. I hadn’t the heart to tell Bell and Balls that there wasn’t a doctor in sight, and food wasn’t the issue. At least it was warm, perhaps my plan of travelling into the summer months was paying off.
Turns out I knew very little about weather, or illnesses.
So that was it, I didn’t get very far or do very well. I didn’t have as much fun as I’d have had with Super Wagon Adventure, but its a more interesting game, especially in the context of when it was made and how many games its influenced, games which I love, like 80 Days and Fallout. It relied heavily on my imagination, and even being as basic as I was it made me smile for the hour or so I played it, and for something that I was having a go at just to play a bit of history thats great.
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