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The Counsel of Trent

#342 – Beating the Oregon Trail

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Power up your Apple II computers and join Trent as he shares the secrets of how to beat the Oregon Trail educational video game and how pioneers beat the real life Oregon Trail. Don’t die of dysentery!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:10.4

It's free for all Friday, here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:13.6

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, we talk about theology, apologetics, how to explain and defend

0:17.8

the Catholic faith, but on Friday, we talk about things that I just find to be interesting.

0:22.8

And a few weeks ago, I was at home and I had nostalgia, so I went online and I found

0:27.5

a program where you could play the old organ trail video game.

0:31.9

And so I played it, I had my wife play it, we compared our stats and our scores, and

0:36.6

I thought, why not talk about the game organ trail and then the real life organ trail,

0:42.1

how to beat these two things here today on the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:45.6

So welcome, I'm your host, Cathering Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:49.2

First, we'll talk about the game and then we'll talk about the real life historical

0:53.1

ventures that were based on the game and separating truth from fiction from what you used

0:58.7

to play in your computer lab at middle school.

1:01.4

Now, I remember going to my middle school, my junior high in Phoenix, Arizona, and I would

1:05.8

go into the computer lab at lunchtime to play games and then also we would just have computer

1:10.1

lab time during our classes.

1:12.9

And there were three games that I would play on the old Apple computers.

1:15.7

So number three was where in the world is Garmin Zendiego.

1:21.4

Now I think that was the theme song for the TV show, but I remember playing the computer

1:24.4

game trying to find Carmen Zendiego and I knew my geography backwards and forwards.

1:28.8

That was pretty good about tracking her down.

1:31.3

Number two was Sim City.

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