Merciless? even though syphilis was entirely absent from the original? Plus stranded desperate cannibalism, a major oversight.
Still, beats being eaten by a grue.

Damn you dysentery! Damn your cold heart to heck! Ah well... I just wanted to shoot squirrels anyway.

To be fair, I never could get all the way to Oregon.

Man, you missed out on the best part of the game!

I got to it twice. When you did, you were the hero of the class. You had to hurry up and half ass your homework just so you had enough time to devote to that game. God I loved that game.

I know what you mean man!
In my class though, we only spent like a few days on the game.

Earthsiege 2. Flying Herc. He shoots, I control the engines.

We weren't allowed to use mathematical equipment when we played Scorched Earth matches on the DOS, but that didn't stop my comrades using my Autistic powers of angle-deduction to guarantee the win.
... I wasn't allowed to play it myself though.

Yea but come on, you don't really need help for that. If you're talking about the first one, my Rogue's dexterity was so high at that point that Diablo just stood there recoiling as I pumped arrows into him. Pretty anti-climactic.

On Hardcore mode? I have got my doubts

BRILLIANT

Yeah. How come nobody plays games that way anymore? Is nobody interested in new games? Man, I could never get my friends to come over and play games and put up with that shit at all.

...Boned?

>:[

I really can't see how you'd call it "hellish". I mean... I have you been to Alaska?

i am in corvallis

Seriously, who the hell goes to Cornwallis?

I know!

seriously!

Hell: fire brimstone and death

fuckin... NM AZ NV anyone?

Sorry, I lamed you before I noticed that you live in Cowvallis.
Condolences, dude, but Portland is not that far of a drive.

There's no better word to describe the game Oregon Trail than "decent"

The look on Ray's face in the last three panels is a perfect bit of cartooning.

I would name my characters after kids from class, and feed them jimsonweed if they'd pissed me off. "Your whole party has contracted dysentery..."

Phillipe, Phillipe, Phillipe.

I forded that bitch ALL the time.

It's the "He wrote!" that does it for me.

Yeah, punchlines will do that for a joke.

did syphillis even come to america at that time???

That is true. It was indeed because Hiram did come quite a lot.

Yes. Well before that time. Blame sailors and prostitutes!

Frenchified!

Chubbied for making my brain stop filling in the "r" automatically. I would have had no idea.

I assumed it was a pun on the game's name... and, y'know... sex.

i didn't think about it as a pun on sex

but

okay

yeah

the alt text makes this a 6.

I believe the past tense of the verb "to shoe" is "shod".

Fun fact: There are actually four (five?) numbered versions of the Oregon Trail now, along with the many many many 'minor' upgrades.

Oregon Trail II is a serious player, in spite of the somewhat silly FMV stuff.

so juicy

I love this one because it's such a good stand-alone strip. Anyone could read this, regardless of story arc context, and it's just really concise and funny.

I just learned that they made a new 3d version of this. I must play it to see if it has smallpox-laden blankets and syphilis.

This would be the best remake ever.