The Oregon Trail but you're a parent driving 3 kids in a sedan with your partner from New York to LA
It's set in the 90s so your family has no cell phone, no GPS, paper maps only, and your kids' gameboy only lasts a few hours on a full set of batteries.
Today, March 1, in 1848, a party of travelers departs from Independence, Missouri on their way to the Oregon Country, part of the era’s movement of colonization of the west (The Oregon Trail, 1993)
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"Obviously, no small computer program can encompass the entire universe. What it can do, however, is simulate enough of the universe to appear more intelligent than it really is"
Every time I see the phrase "You have died of dysentery" I am required to make a post that says:
"You could not actually die of dysentery in the original version of Oregon Trail. I should know... I rewrote the original BASIC game in JavaScript to run in a web browser to re-create the original game experience (as experienced by those of us who were playing it before the Apple II version came out)."