Oregon Trail for Intellivision

[Rev]

Actually it would be cool to choose from more colors.

[+Tarzilla]

Actually it would be cool to choose from more colors.

You just want your blizzard mode...

[nanochess]

Actually it would be cool to choose from more colors.

Actually not possible because of the color pictures for events.

[+Lathe26]

Black and blue? Someone is cruising for a bruising!

 

Seriously though, the game sounds fine as is. Blue as the default with the option for black sounds just fine for both camps. Personally, I prefer black but blue is fine. Also, it takes 2 seconds of my life to switch the setting. I've probably already spent more time thinking about this issue, reading all the comments, and writing this comment then I will spend in my life switching the setting in the game... combined. There are bigger things in life.

 

Lastly, software development is not a democratic process.

[+Lathe26]

Oh, one other thing... can we make the bullets round?

 

<ducks thrown chair>

[+Tarzilla]

Black and blue? Someone is cruising for a bruising!

 

Seriously though, the game sounds fine as is. Blue as the default with the option for black sounds just fine for both camps. Personally, I prefer black but blue is fine. Also, it takes 2 seconds of my life to switch the setting. I've probably already spent more time thinking about this issue, reading all the comments, and writing this comment then I will spend in my life switching the setting in the game... combined. There are bigger things in life.

 

Lastly, software development is not a democratic process.

I don't think it would even take 2 seconds to switch the setting, unless you are playing in the dark and can't see the 9 key on the controller

Then again, the blue background light from the TV should illuminate the controller enough to see it

[fdr4prez]

Oh, one other thing... can we make the bullets round?

 

<ducks thrown chair>

 

Shouldn't bullets be bullet shaped and not round?

 

Unless they are shotgun pellets

[+Tarzilla]

Shouldn't bullets be bullet shaped and not round?

 

Unless they are shotgun pellets

Ding. Ding. Shotgun pellets is what they are.

[fdr4prez]

Ding. Ding. Shotgun pellets is what they are.

 

And to pack them in tightly in the shell, they used square pellets

[carlsson]

I should write a short history about every BASIC language having blue background, Atari 8-bit, MSX, Oric, etc.

Both the Oric-1 and Oric Atmos default to white screen with black border and black text.

 

You're correct though about that the following systems default to some sort of blue background, with either white, light blue or yellow text:

Amiga with Kickstart 1.2 - 1.3, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Commodore 65, MSX 1 & 2, VTech Laser 500

 

The Aquarius and TI-99/4A have black text on cyan background, so I wouldn't really count them.

A number of other systems like IBM PC, Apple ][, BBC Micro etc though boot with white text on black background.

 

Other systems with black text on green background or blue/black text on white background are beyond the scope of the matter.

 

Possibly it would seem that black background indicates an expensive business system, while blue background indicates an affordable home/games system. Of course the infamous BSOD has the lovely white text on blue background, but then again Microsoft Windows to many people is like one big video game.

[accousticguitar]

 

Shouldn't bullets be bullet shaped and not round?

 

Unless they are shotgun pellets

In 1840 the bullets most likely would have been round.

[fdr4prez]

In 1840 the bullets most likely would have been round.

 

Sample bullets from the Civil War, circa 1860-1865

 

 

 

[accousticguitar]

 

Sample bullets from the Civil War, circa 1860-1865

 

 

 

The Minie Ball didn't come to America until 1853.

 

http://www.historynet.com/minie-ball

[fdr4prez]

The Minie Ball didn't come to America until 1853.

 

http://www.historynet.com/minie-ball

 

Interesting... looks like bullet technologically advanced quite a bit in the early to mid 1800s

 

Cylindrical and oval shaped bullets, too

[Zamp1968]

Sign me up for one please. Any number is fine!

[+Tarzilla]

Where's nanochess?

 

Next year, Oscar!

[nanochess]

Where's nanochess?

 

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Next year, Oscar!

[+intellivotion]

There's something I'm 100% sure everybody agrees on: nobody starves to death when in Oregon with the Intellifellas

[mthompson]

There's something I'm 100% sure everybody agrees on: nobody starves to death when in Oregon with the Intellifellas

Yeah, but has anybody gotten dysentery or run out of money? Thats the real danger.

[+adamchevy]

I would love a cart of this game . Any number is fine.

[Rev]

[917k]

Picked up my cart yesterday, nice guys.

[+intvsteve]

Yeah, but has anybody gotten dysentery or run out of money? Thats the real danger.

By the end of that show, after visiting that booth, yeah.... Plenty ran out with dysentery of money.

[+Lathe26]

By the end of that show, after visiting that booth, yeah.... Plenty ran out with dysentery of money.

I see you avoided the PRGE food.

 

Just kiddin', the food was fine.

[carlsson]

Perhaps next year someone will demo Montezuma's Revenge for the Intellivision, and then it is a question which one you pick up from visiting the booth.