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Better Time Waster Of The Moment: Thule Trail
NihonTiger90 12.17.08 - 10:46 AM 11 comments




This morning, while perusing my daily news Web sites, I came across a little article on an Oregon Trail-remake/semi-advertigame called Thule Trail. It's being hosted by Thule Sweden, which is a company that makes roof-top carrying racks and trailers for cars.

Now, if you're gonna have the balls to remake one of the greatest games, it'd better be damn good. And Thule must have known that, because this game is, to quote Chad, AMAZING.

Instead of riding in a wagon to Oregon, you're in one of three cars on your way to the Atlantis Music Festival in California. Each car has advantages and disadvantages to picking it. Along with that, you get to pick an occupation and name your four companions for the trip. You also have to pick up gas and supplies, can hunt for food on the side of the road, can pick up hitchhikers (but be careful) and can compete in events for money. It's pretty much a great modern update of the Oregon Trail, and it's all browser-based. Kick ass!

I started an adventure from Chicago with myself, Ron, Niero, Tiff and Chad and made it to the very end with just about everyone in tow. Well, except one person, but I took pictures that will help explain the whole thing.


Can I ford the river?


Hells yes, I can.



















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There are 11 comments about this post:
angusm's Destructoid Blog
Epic
blehman's Destructoid Blog
Wow. DO WANT!!
Husky Hog's Destructoid Blog
OH MY GOD THIS IS SOT IGHT
Samit Sarkar's Destructoid Blog
Wow, the accuracy of this to personalities of some of the real-life characters is uncanny. Epic find, NihonTiger90!
Chad Concelmo's Destructoid Blog
HA HA HA HA! This is amazing! I do love me some wildflowers! :)
casualweaponry's Destructoid Blog
Super hilarious, especially since I can see Chad rolling around in flowers, and Ron falling in love(or lust) and staying behind, drunk probably.

Pointless Tiff stories? NEVER. She enthralls me.

AMAZING!
The-Excel's Destructoid Blog
How in the Greek gods' names did you get four staff members to cooperate with you in something that doesn't involve your mutilation?
Necros's Destructoid Blog
I need to download this. Now.
Husky Hog's Destructoid Blog
I can't wait until the next time I'm driving with Chad and we see wildflowers

because we're both going to roll around
Mxyzptlk's Destructoid Blog
This is so awesome I'm going to make a holiday in honor of it. Whenever I get around to it, that is.
Tiff's Destructoid Blog
lol this is fucking hilarious. Thank you thank you thank you! I feel honored to be included in the adventure :P

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Hey there! How are you? Name's Brian. I'm a 22-year-old graduate of Bowling Green State University, majoring in journalism and minoring in Asian Studies. I work as Assistant Gaming Editor over at Blogcritics Gaming and as a very proud part of the crew over at Tomopop. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it because I get to do a lot of cool shit.

I've been gaming since the relatively young age of around 3 and I've played plenty of games, both good and bad. I'm continuously expanding my gaming collection, which has become more of an archive in recent years as I'm focusing on collecting older, less well-known titles. You'd honestly be surprised on what people are missing out on in bargain bins...

Other than gaming, I love anime, manga, sports, movies, TV, and a whole lot more. You'll probably find out more the more often you read my blog.

Also, I am Chad Concelmo's B.F.F., my prize for coming in first in The Great Retro Quiz .18 - ActRaiser.


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