Load up your wagons and pack your rations, frontier people, because you’re about to go on a journey down memory lane! Remember The Oregon Trail? You know, that old computer game that, um, everyone played? Of course you do! Well, YouTube comedy troop Half Day Today has posted a brilliant spoof movie trailer for The Oregon Trail. (Sadly, this won’t be a real movie.) I won’t give away all the little winks to the original game, but I did laugh out loud that this is “a film by MECC studios.” Love it! With material this funny, I’d be willing to ford ten rivers to watch a full-length Oregon Trail movie — heck, I’d caulk my wheels and float my wagon across them to see it. Watch the clip below to see the hilarity for yourself:
What did you think, PopWatchers? I think my favorite part was the all-too-true hunting scene. I would always kill about 3,000 pounds of bison, only to be told that I could only carry 120 back to my wagon. So now that we have an Oregon Trail(er), which other old video games would you like to see adapted? Odell Down Under? Word Munchers? Troggle Trouble Math?
The spoof is pretty great, but why shouldn’t there be an “Oregon Trail” movie?
I mean, is it that much more ridiculous than basing a movie on “Battleship”?
Oregon Trail > Battleship, no contest!
Exactly!
…and if this were the 90′s, Kevin Costner would probably direct and star.
Ideally, yes…but I’m afraid if the script was written and shopped today that Tim Burton would snatch it up and weird it out.
Although, there would be some satisfaction in seeing Johnny Depp with dysentary…
This. Is. EPIC.
Does anyone else cringe at the overuse of that word?
Generally, I agree with you.
However, a real “Oregon Trail” movie would ACTUALLY be quite epic in scope.
There should absolutely be an OT movie. An entire generation would FLOCK to the theaters.
Next, there needs to be a “Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?” movie.
Yes. I was thinking about that not too long ago. I’m actually surprised that hasn’t been done already.
OT and Carmen Santiago movies? That would be too much awesomeness for me to handle.
There should absolutely be a ________ movie! An entire generation would FLOCK to the theaters.
…this is the logic behind nearly a decade of terrible, terrible movies. Please shut up. Please.
Carmen Sandiego FTW!
I would only watch a “Carmen Sandiego” movie if they could promise an appearance from Rockapella. LOL
And then Fraction Munchers
“How did your brother get DYSENTARY?”
Ohhh, so great!
I would watch the hell out of this movie.
I would totally watch an OT movie– and I’m with DK a “Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?” movie would be most excellent.
“No one wants to be the carpenter” Ha! Love it!
My video kept stopping to load or something. I’ve been trying to watch for 5 minutes and have only seen 23 seconds.
If any video game deserves to be made into a movie, it’s this. Epic AND educational!
LOL I would so watch this movie. Oh, the days of sitting in my public library, playing Oregon Trail on one of those ancient computers, and not completing the journey because some family member died of consumption, or we ran out of food, or all of our oxen died. lol
this was such an awesome computer game!! i remember in grade school we would go to the computer lab every friday and do some work and once we finished everyone would be playing Oregon Trail because it was so awesome!!!
You won’t learn anything!!
The best part of the game was when you got to shoot the animals. It was so ridiculous looking. You would always kill too much, or you would run out of bullets trying.
“I’ll take four oxen, and all the bullets $1600 can get me.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oregon Trail was the bomb. While I’m not sure whether it would get a full Hollywood treatment, it could definitely work as a series of webisodes, like Dr. Horrible. Joss Whedon — get on it!