Oregon Trail has to be my most favorite game for the old computer lab with the Apples.
The drama, action, romance, and raw death make it a non-stop thrill-ride.
It teaches you how to spend money wisely, how to shoot a squirrel, how to treat deadly disease (just hit spacebar), how to buy Indians off, how to wildly raft down a river with a wagon, oxen, people, and thousands of pounds of other stuff onboard.
All of the essential life skills.
My favorite parts of the game are giving my crew ridiculous names, shooting buffalo, letting people die, and rafting down The Dalles.
It’s possible to die from a variety of diseases, including typhoid, measles, pneumonia, syphillis, cholera, or bubonic plague. Then you get the fun of writing your tombstone. Let the profanity begin.
It would be cool if you could get mauled by a bear while you were hunting. Or attacked by a pack of hungry squirrels.
While I don’t think it was as good as the Ohio State/Miami game in ‘03, it was definitely unbelievably awesome and riveting for its entirety. When Texas fumbled early in the game, it might’ve been the soul-killer, but Reggie Bush decided to lateral the ball at the end of a great run and fumble it back, so Texas had a chance again. Play after ridiculous play, it went down to the wire, basically the winner being the one who had the ball last. Vince Young pulled off some ridiculous runs at the end; USC was backpedaling and panicking every time he touched the ball. He was just bigger and better than they were. Just like we always try to compare today’s teams to old teams, it sort of looked like that. He was just out of his league. And, so far, ESPN has come up with “Vince-Sanity”, “Holy Mack-erel”, “Austin Power”, “In-Vince-ible”, and “Vincent Classic” to describe this game. I’m going with “Forever Young”. 
