The Story of The Oregon Trail - Learn the story behind one of the most successful edutainment games of all time, and why the original creators never made a penny.

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I find myself with a spare 80+more minutes I’ll have to finish watching that.

  Anyone have some time to lend me?

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t have to watch it all in one go, lol

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    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I started with 3 minutes XD

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think I could beat the game in less time than it takes to watch this video

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• iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Intend to watch the full thing later, but I already love his style based on the opening minutes! The interviews remind me of old PBS/Nova style documentaries where so much of them was just letting people talk and tell their stories. Very cool!

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  • WamGams@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Both PBS and Nova are still around! If you don’t have cable or antenna, anybody who pledges $5 a month can get the app.

    Just a head’s up: their children’s programming is a separate app. Unsure if you have to choose which app you want or get both though, I don’t have children so never looked.

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    • iheartneopets@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha, I am aware, thank you

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone one of their documentaries is amazing.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s like the Ken Burns of gaming! 😄

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  • RavenFellBlade@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like that’s the exact vibe they go for with these. It feels so authentic, too. VGH clearly has a love of both video game history, and that particular era of documentary programming.

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• wahming@monyet.cc ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TLDW?

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  • newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s literally the story of how Oregon Trail came to be. With interviews from the people who made it. Honestly it’s worth a watch if you find Video game development or early computing at all interesting. Video Game Historian puts out some fantastic documentaries and this one is equally fantastic.

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• RavenFellBlade@startrek.website ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Excellent video! If you have the time to watch all of it, do so. The early days of computing were wild!

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• Outtatime@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great episode

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