+Ksarul Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 That puts you down into my range, Opry99er! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Last day, folks.... I'm terrible at this game and don't stand a chance. Who's going to win the day?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 man.. has the month already passed? :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Next >> February 2019 - game competition: >> Same prize remains (see MunchMan II) (later this week I will pull up the brochures, bin, dsk, etc.) A classic TI game - Chisholm Trail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Didn't jwild get the high score this month? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Oh---okay. You were counting your own score. I see. Carry on! Good luck folks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckoBrand Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 I have a score for Chisholm Trail. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestyx Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Not that I expect this score will hold up, but here's my current best score for this game. It's actually a lot better than I remember it being, with a decent amount of depth for what at first glance looks to be a simple game. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 I used to play this one quite a bit BITD. It can be a lot of fun--it can also be quite frustrating if you forget to pay attention to the lasers. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 I used to play this one quite a bit BITD. It can be a lot of fun--it can also be quite frustrating if you forget to pay attention to the lasers. . . I am very curious how far we can get the trail completed! (will start playing later this week on the real iron). The laser are irritating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 9300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 9300 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 who is the champion to complete the Chisholm Trail ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 11950 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
globeron Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 On real iron: 51400. The video footage is uploading on YouTube TI99VIDEOS. Sent from my VIE-L29 using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opry99er Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 This was one of the games I had as a kid. I often got it confused with Tombstone City. Neither one of them really got my interest back then. Probably because Parsec, Munch Man, and Tunnels of Doom were so awesome. And Football. Now that we get to focus on it for the game of the month, I'm finding it quite fun. I like how the enemies change with each day, kinda like in Munch Man. I now know what a "day" is, and how to actually move from one day to the next. I didn't figure that out until this week. I want to give the enemies names.. like "backwards shooting crossbow guys" and "infinite ladders"...you'll see as you unlock them. Good luck everyone. Now that we have survived Valentines Day, we can get back to some retrocomputing awesomeness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 24700. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 I think Chisholm Trail deserves a special prize as the game with the highest degree of abstraction from its title and background story. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwild Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 29850 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 The point of the game escapes me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 The point of the game escapes me.It's a cattle ranch simulator ... Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 The point of the game escapes me.You use violence to make some numbers get bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 You use violence to make some numbers get bigger. I like violence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) I think Chisholm Trail deserves a special prize as the game with the highest degree of abstraction from its title and background story. I second your prize motion! Yeah it's pretty far from a dusty cattle drive through Texas to the railhead at Abilene, Kansas. The converging cattle drive routes were called the Chisholm Trail. The way I see it, you camp each night with your 16 cows in a perfectly square herd. Square cows. They wander off one at a time when you're not standing guard on the herd. You have to track them down and lasso them with bullets. Their actual fate would be a bullet in the head at the slaughterhouse in Chicago, but the game gets it done early. Meanwhile, mutant rattlesnakes with lasers of vengeance approximate the risk of stepping on a rattlesnake in the brush. Each day, a new cowboy joins you to replace the attrition. At the title screen of the game, the blinking dot of attention-grabbing represents TI CEO J. Fred Bucy, who wants TI to invest lots of money in Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock was not on the Chisholm Trail. This is the rare appearance in a TI game of an actual employee. After he was forced out in 1985, J. Fred Bucy no doubt continued to haunt the wide hallways of TI as a bouncing 8-bit circle going "Weep, weep", that is when he was not busy sailing his yacht in the Gulf of Mexico. Shift 8-3-8 on the title screen represents the ability that all Chisholm Trail cowboys had to utilize an underground warp network to bypass the boring parts of the cattle drive. Chisholm Trail.. what a weird and semi-lovable game on our platform. Edited February 21, 2019 by FarmerPotato 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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