• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Except the greatest educational game of all time was already ten years old and dead from dysentery by the time she was speaking.

    I think it’s more a case of her certainty coming from a lack of knowledge about the subject and the assumption that because she doesn’t know about it that it doesn’t exist.

    • @jaybone
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      31 year ago

      Oregon Trail was not ten years old then.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Oh yeah my mistake, the version we know wouldn’t come out for three more years the original text based one was ten years old

        • @jaybone
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          21 year ago

          Holy shit my bad. I thought there was no way this dated back to 1972. Actually dates back to 1971.

          I was thinking of the version I played on an Apple in the 80s.

          Clearly that was not the first incarnation.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I mean, yeah, I am also assuming that she was no expert on the matter. We’re saying that it was an understandable opinion for a lay person or even someone who kept up with the bigger titles. It certainly wasn’t easy back then to know about all kinds of games…