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Posted by Edward Drummond on Fri, Aug 24, 2012

If you are a child of the 70's or 80's, chances are at some point in your life you spent some time in school driving a covered wagon through the harsh wilderness.  By this I mean playing the "edutainment" game Oregon Trail.  The game is a highly-regarded example of early gaming, and for many of us it was our first introduction to video games. Game developer The Men Who Wear Many Hats have combined this classic game with a (un)healthy dose of the zombie plague to create The Organ Trail, a fantastic game set during the obviously inevtable zombie apocalypse. 

Recently, the developers release the newest incarnation of their program called Organ Trail: Director’s Cut which manages to hold true to it's original 1971 roots while adding enough new gameplay functions to surprise even hardcore veterans of the original.

 

Organ Trail maintains pretty much the same goal as its forebearer which is to navigate a group of companions from the East Coast of the US to the promised land in the west. This time around, it’s not to seek a new life in California, but simply to escape the zombie hordes and  nuclear devasation in their wake. Now aboard a classy station wagon instead of a covered wagon, players can make stops along the journey in order to  scavenge for food, adjust your speed, or try to trade with passersby. There are also over 20 checkpoints in the form of overrun landmarks, cities and shelters. Organ Trail uses the waypoints to show the decline our country from the devastation in contrast to the original showing how we built our country outwards.

Organ Trail: Directors Cut is available for Android and for i(phone/pod) for $2.99, and the normal non-Directors cut is available for free here.

It is hard to find a art of our lives that has not been touched by the zombie menace, from Sears offering a zombie catalog, to the "undead" wandering the local streets of Northampton, MA each year on a quest for booze and/or brains during the Northampon Zombie Pubcrawl.  If you are a fan of classic gaming, check out this mashup of apocalypic proportions. 

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