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We all know Oregon Trail, but did anyone else play Odell Lake?

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We all know Oregon Trail, but did anyone else play Odell Lake?

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ANightmateofBees@reddit

Just gonna say it. At school, when I had the choice, I always went for Odell Lake.
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mem1003@reddit

Thank you for helping me remember "the game with the fish" that I played at school!
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Doormatty@reddit

That GOD DAMNED OSPREY!
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everythinghappensto@reddit

Me: What? No. What even is that? You: […] OSPREY! Me: omgithinkiplayedthis!!
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dunnkw@reddit

Deep Escape!
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brutecookie5@reddit

Rainbow Trout FTW! Eat everything!
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Johhnynumber5ht2a@reddit

Except the bait fish that had hooks in them
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cropguru357@reddit

I thought it was the Mackinaw Trout?
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Smallbees@reddit

It was my favorite game to play when we got computer time in school
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JohnnyWeapon@reddit

Chub.
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Shortbus_Playboy@reddit

I remembered the name and then reading the comments brought back a flood of memories (pun absolutely intended).
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Total-Indication8793@reddit

Yes! And nobody ever knows what I’m talking about. Love the Osprey
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artificialavocado@reddit

Remember the lemonade stand one? There was also one about slavery and my favorite was Lewis and Clark Stayed Home.
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the_kid1234@reddit

https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2023/11/freedom-the-failed-educational-computer-game
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artificialavocado@reddit

Yeah that’s it my school had it.
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Kale2ThaChief@reddit

Yeah our computer lab in the later grades of elementary school had this game, Oregon Trail and a typing program.
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the_kid1234@reddit

Loved that game. I wish there was a way to let my kids play it.
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lachrymologyislegit@reddit

Yep, and I lived/live in Oregon, home of the real Odell Lake. It's sotta amusing that MECC made two games about Oregon. Minnesota not being on the Oregon Trail and the "Land of 10,000 lakes."
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artificialavocado@reddit

Did you family travel there in a wagon? 😁
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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

Did you die of dysentery?
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lachrymologyislegit@reddit

My truck broke down, and I coasted down the pass by the lake one time...If that counts!
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KaraokeTours@reddit

I think it would be brilliant for someone to make an Oregon trail skit where they have tv and electricity, but no cars.. so as they travel, such as “would you like to caulk the wagon and float across?” They have to watch a 10 second ad showing some expert Amish person caulking a wagon or something… maybe someone else is getting checked for cholera. Another person is tasting berries.
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hammalamma@reddit

Mackinaw Trout ftw
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amsjcu@reddit

Hell yes! Spent some good times in Junior High computer lab playing this, Oregon Trail, Chessmaster, Math Football and many others. I just remember getting eaten all the damn time as I didn’t know to escape shallow or deep most of the time
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noelesque@reddit

As a Xennial who grew up in Minnesota, I absolutely played this in computer lab along with Oregon Trail, Number/Word Munchers, and one that was like Carmen San Diego but you followed around Mr. X, I can't remember the name of it.
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fireforge1979@reddit

I was just thinking about this game the other day and couldn't remember the name!!
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skeptical_hope@reddit

How else would I know what an osprey is? :D
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pretenditscherrylube@reddit

I played Odell Down under!
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Olin85@reddit

Here it is: https://archive.org/details/a2_Odell_Lake_v1.2_1986_MECC_US
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Alpaca-hugs@reddit

Was this a fishing game?
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civilwarcorpses@reddit

Not exactly. You played as a fish and faced with different scenarios you could do things like move to shallow water move to deep water eat Most of what I remember happening is escaping bigger fish by moving to shallow water only to be eaten by an osprey.
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Alpaca-hugs@reddit

I have the vaguest memory of this game.
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ZENDO_ATLIEN@reddit

Nope, I do remember Math Munchers around this time.
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Country_Gravy420@reddit

Played this a ton on Apple IIe in grade school.
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ClassWarr@reddit

I'm pretty sure I was in 7th grade pre-algebra with Odell Lake.
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AmatureMD@reddit

Flashback!!! Ospreys and Dolly Varden!
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