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Question on an old Apple ][ Game

Post by Sylvus »

My friend is trying to remember the name of a game she used to play in school way back when, kind of the Oregon Trail era.

You were a fish and you had to swim around and try to decide if you should eat another fish or swim away. Occasionally an osprey would swoop in to eat you... That's about all the details I have. I'm certain someone here will remember.
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Post by Pahreyia »

Wasn't that called Trout Pond or something lame like that?
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Current belief is that it was called Odell Lake (thanks arundel!), though I'd still like to find a picture of it or something for verification.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I don't know how I remember it as trout pond, but then again, I would have been 5 or 6 when that game was being played.
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Odell Lake is the correct title. It came out in 1981ish and was a broderbund educational game, if memory serves.
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Odel Lake!? OMFG! I loved that game! Back in Elementary school, I would play that any chance I got on the school computers. Along with some sort of alien/robot game, where you mixed and matched arms, legs, heads, bodys to make interesting characters. Think it involved basic math problems too. Anyone remember that one?
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number munchers was the own
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sorry but Conan was the best.
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Post by Trek »

Truant wrote:sorry but Conan was the best.

If that is the top view game with the little disks/holes you went to to 'warp' and you had a big axe and hunted a guy down and hacked him up, yes yes, I remember that game and it was great.
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I really liked taipan...
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