I’m a little surprised that I’m the only one who liked the Oregon Trail best on this list. I figured that one was a little more popular, as iconic as Space Invaders, Pong, and Asteroids.
Anyway, it’s also the seed of inspiration leading up to some of my favourite games of all time, including Dwarf Fortress.
I’ve played all these games or games based directly on them (like Arkanoid instead of Breakout), but only three of them held my attention for more than a few minutes, including Zork and Colossal Cave Adventure - although, admittedly I was kind of lost with these games when I was younger, but loved the idea, and played derivatives of both (text adventure, graphical adventure, and MUDs) during the 1980s and 1990s. But Oregon Trail is a game I put dozens of hours on when I was a kid, and was the game that my family would make sure to have on our computers through the 80s up to the mid-90s and CD-Rom - text adventures (including Zork) were still circulating at the time of Myst, but ceased by about 96/97.
Oregon Trail is still widely available today in the form of remakes.
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