The Oregon Trail Micro Arcade Review - The '71 Computer Game in Your Pocket!

[@paulglicklin4686]

You obviously didn't play this one multiple times. The unit is bugged and your party never survives past south pass. Hunting is bugged and you always get 900 pounds of food, even if you don't shoot anything. Also resting doesn't do anything and accelerates the death timer. I think you should experiment on this unit a few more times and then do a re-review video.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Oh, no. Is it terminally borked? I played about four times and was never successful. I don't see me spending much more time with it, especially knowing this potential problem. I'll pin your comment as a buyer-beware to other viewers, though. Thanks for the heads-up.

[@tager2.022]

I believe they may have fixed that for later ones as mine just came in and ive hunted twice and gotten a different amount neither of them being 900 if i make it to south pass i will update on if can go past it

[@tager2.022]

Yeah i made it to oregon and beat the game they fixed it for newer units

[@AnthonyJRapino]

@@tager2.022 Thanks for the update!

[@cjrisktaker4261]

@@tager2.022thanks for the update! Will get it now

[@MichaelSuperbacker]

2:17 Looks like you are playing “Operation” 😂

[@GenXGrownUp]

I kind of am! 😉

[@MichaelSuperbacker]

Hey great video! New Subscriber 👍I was randomly looking on an EBay sellers page and found this game. And so I went to KZbin to research what this handheld device is all about and your video was one of the first ones to pop up! So thank you for a great intensive review!

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@MichaelSuperbacker Many thanks. This video was just a year ago but already looks so old to me! 😀 Welcome and thanks for watching.

[@gregrowe1168]

I remember this in elementary school. We also had some other fun games. We had one similar to Jeopardy in which you answer trivia questions. I even remember a math game in which you answered math problems to destroy enemy ships. And we had Leisure Suit Larry, a game which was probably not something an 11 year old should be playing lol.

[@ethanshellington9866]

I was wondering when this video was coming. Great Review!

[@GenXGrownUp]

I hope you enjoyed it, Ethan. 😀

[@BriansManCave]

We had Commodore 64's in my school back in the day... never had a chance to play the OT, but this looks really cool.

[@GenXGrownUp]

It's worth trying. There's an online emulator that you can check out if you're interested: www.visitoregon.com/the-oregon-trail-game-online/

[@gregsnarke610]

Hi Jon I remember that game on computer back in the day I’m watching your channel again Jon Mo and Georg I just bought myself a new iPhone because the keyboard on my old iPhone didn’t work anymore it’s Greg Snarke I even found your website store so I can shop!

[@GenXGrownUp]

Very cool. Thanks, and good to hear from you.

[@adamchoi8136]

Lol thanos snapped his fingers and killed half your party. Awesome stuff and I miss Oregon trail. Definitely a childhood favorite.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Thanks, Adam. Our Thanos messed up and snapped whole darn party into oblivion!

[@thetommygunshow]

Wow. Blowing my mind.

[@GenXGrownUp]

🤯

[@Emceemur]

In elementary school our whole school shared one Apple IIe on a cart. If you were good you might get 15 minutes to play Oregon Trail or the other MECC masterpiece, Odell Lake. 15 minutes is barely enough time to get dysentery. I like the idea of a pocket Oregon Trail game! We have the bigger handheld but it’s not very portable.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Not too much wrong with it, and you can definitely play with it for longer than 15 minutes! 😀

[@_Majoras]

those mecc games were good but nothing beats the munchers series!

[@Emceemur]

Won’t argue that the munchers were pretty great!! I have great memories of Number Munchers for sure.

[@genxskeptic5816]

We also had a TRS 80 hooked up to a 19 inch color television. 🤣

[@GenXGrownUp]

Wow. What for? It was only a black-and-white output, right?

[@genxskeptic5816]

@@GenXGrownUp No! Clowns and Balloons was in color! I don’t know how, but when my brother and I played the games, they were in color. Now, if you were writing in syntax (?), that was green and black. 🤷‍♂️

[@GenXGrownUp]

@@genxskeptic5816 I think you're likely talking about the Tandy Color Computer (CoCo), not the TRS-80 Model III. Another great platform, though, and it definitely had 16 colors.

[@genxskeptic5816]

@@GenXGrownUp You are correct. It was a color Co Co

[@ductungnguyen2148]

can you try the handheld version

[@GenXGrownUp]

I have it. Perhaps I'll take a look here one day. Thanks for the request.

[@Bikeguychicago1]

Do you have the psuedo-Apple II version from Target from a few years ago?

[@GenXGrownUp]

If that's the one Basic Fun released, then yes.

[@TheKitsuneDen]

Cool little game, that almost all of the whole game is there! I'm so used when I played that in 80's on the apple2E, lol never did win the thing lol

[@GenXGrownUp]

Thanks for watching, Foxlink! 😀

[@GCJACK83]

We all just contracted dyssentery. The wagon caught fire. Tried fording the river and failed.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Happens to the best of us. 😉

[@rubendirickx5105]

Could you review the second and third mini atari arcade

[@GenXGrownUp]

We take requests. Do you have a link to where there are available?

[@GenXGrownUp]

Searching Amazon for "mini atari arcade" produces hundreds of results. Not sure which model you mean.

[@rubendirickx5105]

It is the same model as the ping mini arcade

[@gregsnarke610]

Jon could anyone buy these game Oregan Trail from your store’s website?

[@GenXGrownUp]

Sure, Greg. There's a link in the video description which is our Amazon affiliate store. amzn.to/3JbdbYI

[@gregsnarke610]

Alright thanks Jon

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

Its cute but I like the other handheld that came out a year or so ago

[@GenXGrownUp]

Nothing wrong with owning both. 😉

[@thanos4035]

The studio looks great! Is that Gobo?! I apologize for wandering off, but at least I wasn't first to go. Remember me well.

[@GenXGrownUp]

Thanks, Thanos. That is Gobo. I picked him up at Denver's Fifty-Two '80s nostalgia store a few years ago. Be careful about wandering away from the party. That cost us a day! 😉

[@mattybdbz4665]

How’s the hunting???

[@GenXGrownUp]

In three playthroughs, I still haven't encountered hunting.

[@mattybdbz4665]

@@GenXGrownUp well hunting should be an option to do if you go to the menu inbetween days while not at a location

[@_Majoras]

9:15 when thanos died i felt that 😭

[@GenXGrownUp]

It hit hard, right?

[@Tylerpowers-cg7op]

Do a review of the basic fun verison of orgeon trail mini handheld it has better graphics and looks more like the msdos verison

[@TylerPowers-x3z]

Do the review in the next video

[@TylerPowers-x3z]

Do a review of the basic fun Oregon trail handheld it’s better than the micro arcade version the sounds are better and not tinny in the basic fun one and it’s the Ms dos version of the game

[@FB64_Fakebeta]

I wish My Arcade made an Oregon Trail pocket player. It would be much better than this. Well, at least it wouldn’t say “You is died of a dysentery” or whatever caveman language is on this.

[@BrookeandCorey]

Hey Jon I am sure I have not heard of Oregon Trail The computer game

[@GenXGrownUp]

You should do some reading. It's a classic computer game.

[@stewbacca2119]

Dammit!! I always die!!

[@GenXGrownUp]

And I had such high hopes! 🪦

[@cxk7127]

oof. I died!

[@GenXGrownUp]

My condolences. 😉

[@michaelcreamer4901]

My word! Trash 80's! I remember playing Oregon Trail and Lemonade Stand on those. That was 7th grade in my Intro to Computers class as well. OH NO, I DIED!

[@THEKLEVER187]

I really messed up and not buying this unit 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@GenXGrownUp]

Don't fret too much. Some commenters have suggested it has some bugs that make it difficult if not impossible to actually win. As a nostalgic toy it's cool, but if true, that would bring it down a couple notches.