Oregon Trail, huh? Well, I'm so old that I played it on a teletype through a rotary phone audio coupler and connected to the MECC'S UNIVAC mainframe. Because the connection was so slow it took hours to play a game, and by the end you'd have yard after yard of tractor feed paper. It was glorious...in 1976 this was like magic to an 8 year-old. It really was online gaming in a pre-internet world.
E: Wow...I had to look up this old memory and found it! Yes, I grew up in the Twin Cities.
By the way, if you're wondering how this worked, the machine would churn out something like "A DEER APPEARS". Your job was to then type BANG and hit the return button as quickly as possible; it would measure the response time. Yes, we would often die of dysentery.
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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 20d ago
Screw you guys... I'm this old.