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[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Except the greatest educational game of all time was already ten years old and dead from dysentery by the time she was speaking.

I think it's more a case of her certainty coming from a lack of knowledge about the subject and the assumption that because she doesn't know about it that it doesn't exist.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oregon Trail was not ten years old then.

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[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh yeah my mistake, the version we know wouldn't come out for three more years the original text based one was ten years old

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Holy shit my bad. I thought there was no way this dated back to 1972. Actually dates back to 1971.

I was thinking of the version I played on an Apple in the 80s.

Clearly that was not the first incarnation.

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[–] eyes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I was there Gandalf...

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[–] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I mean, yeah, I am also assuming that she was no expert on the matter. We're saying that it was an understandable opinion for a lay person or even someone who kept up with the bigger titles. It certainly wasn't easy back then to know about all kinds of games...

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