Filed under: Fun, Games, Kids, Time-Wasters
ThuleRoadTrip takes you back to your Oregon Trail days -Time Waster
by Christina Clark Sep 22nd 2008
The graphics, the sounds, and the game style of ThuleRoadTrip are just like Oregon Trail. The difference? You're trying to get to the Atlantis Music Festival and you can get there in an SUV, a hybrid or a turbo charged station wagon.
You buy bags of food and magazines, games and CDs to keep car passengers entertained along the way. You have the opportunity to stop and compete in kayaking, snowboarding and mountain biking races. You can choose to pick up some hitchhikers or leave them on the side of the road.
You can even hunt for food - except instead of deer and squirrels you see pizza and sodas hopping by. The most fun, just like in the original game, is naming your travel companions. The game throws out random comments, like "All the fast food isn't agreeing with Lee, somebody crack a window!" I snickered every time I saw a friend's name come up with a remark like that - just like I was in middle school again.
A few tips: try the hybrid, and make sure you stop along the way and see some of the sights. You actually lose points when you arrive too early.
I spent a lot of time playing Oregon Trail when I was a kid. My Mom even played! ThuleRoadTrip totally made my evening.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
