- The Men Who Wear Hats
- Highbrow. As Always.
Courtesy the least date-rape-prone member of the Gawker empire, io9, comes Organ Trail, a neo-retro rejiggering of The Oregon Trail focused on the zombie apocalypse.
Recipe? Take the Apple II-style graphics of The Oregon Trail, replace the 1800s climes with a modern, yet undead-pocked landscape, and task players with traveling from D.C. to Portland. Result? A browser game that couldn’t possibly be more aimed at our audience if it included pictures of Chris Dudley being assaulted by adorable, twee kittens.
As with its inspiration, the entire thing is a pretty quick play, but that’s just about right for a bored Saturday afternoon. Enjoy: The Organ Trail.
Why do continue to make a joke of date-rape?
It’s a super douchey-douche thing to do.
It’s gotten him into trouble with certain online communities in the past, too.
Only if you consider “vikings” to be an online community.
(That said, I’m glad to see someone remembers that hilarity.)
And sueno, it wasn’t a joke. I really don’t think io9 would attempt to forcibly have sex with you after dinner and a movie. That’s just not their style.
They’d use more tentacles.
@nex: I really enjoy that your response to valid criticisms is just make the same disgraceful comment again, but take it up a notch. Way to keep things classy.
That Sears ad campaign has killed zombies for me, so to speak. I’m calling for a five-year moratorium, or crematorium, whichever proves most useful.
Do you still get to ride a raft down the Columbia, perhaps escaping zombies or drowning in the process? That’s the whole reason I played the original. That and hunting, until I got a Nintendo with Duck Hunt.