Crosscountry USA 30 Years Later: Trucker Edutainment Done Right
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Date: 2025-03-21
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markredf150
Clint. Ryan. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH for this huuuuuuge nostalgia trip! I used to love to play this game in elementary school, I believe I was in the third grade when I found out we had it in the classroom. Every minute of computer time I had, I played this game, and it was a lot of minutes, as I was a bit of a brainiac as a tot. I'd finish my work before everyone else as usual and fire this game up. If I remember correctly, we had three Macs (pizza box with big monitor on top) in my classroom and I learned a lot of the ins and outs of the game (didn't have the manual to find what was where, I learned by doing. Such a blast!
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Clint. Ryan. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH for this huuuuuuge nostalgia trip! I used to love to play this game in elementary school, I believe I was in the third grade when I found out we had it in the classroom. Every minute of computer time I had, I played this game, and it was a lot of minutes, as I was a bit of a brainiac as a tot. I'd finish my work before everyone else as usual and fire this game up. If I remember correctly, we had three Macs (pizza box with big monitor on top) in my classroom and I learned a lot of the ins and outs of the game (didn't have the manual to find what was where, I learned by doing. Such a blast!
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CaptFwiffo
There was a game similar to this back in the 80s when I was in grade school that I can not remember for the life of me. It use real maps with the real interstate highways shown on screen. It didn't have animations or cut scenes like this game. You had to pick which interstate took you to the correct destination. It wasn't a truck based game, but more of a driving or directional simulator. The game helped me learn directions and how to travel on highways at such a young age. It may have been on the Apple II computer, but I can not remember. If anyone knows what game it is, please let me know!
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There was a game similar to this back in the 80s when I was in grade school that I can not remember for the life of me. It use real maps with the real interstate highways shown on screen. It didn't have animations or cut scenes like this game. You had to pick which interstate took you to the correct destination. It wasn't a truck based game, but more of a driving or directional simulator. The game helped me learn directions and how to travel on highways at such a young age. It may have been on the Apple II computer, but I can not remember. If anyone knows what game it is, please let me know!
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WillKeaton
I never played _Crosscountry USA, _ but I had a copy of _Crosscountry Canada_ I played a ton. It wasn't one of the earlier ones, but the version that uses most of the assets seen in this game, including that bit on the radio where they take a break from The Histroy of the Rutabaga, then it goes into a commercial with a guy who talks really fast. This video cuts out a lot of it, but that fast talking guy advertising a car dealership still confounds me, as I can only make out like half of what he says, and it's not like this tiny audio snippet in this old game is well-known and documented.
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I never played _Crosscountry USA, _ but I had a copy of _Crosscountry Canada_ I played a ton. It wasn't one of the earlier ones, but the version that uses most of the assets seen in this game, including that bit on the radio where they take a break from The Histroy of the Rutabaga, then it goes into a commercial with a guy who talks really fast. This video cuts out a lot of it, but that fast talking guy advertising a car dealership still confounds me, as I can only make out like half of what he says, and it's not like this tiny audio snippet in this old game is well-known and documented.
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Yonkage-ik5qb
In retrospect, I played this game completely wrong as a child in school. I was way too focused on actually being competent so I could get a higher score than everyone else in the class. Never encountered the police, never ran out of gas, never crashed from lack of sleep, never even knew it was possible to speed, and wasted entirely too much time making sure the seatbelt was always on.
Completely missed all the fun parts. Like that neat crash effect with the cracks on the windshield that remind me of what happened when you crashed in early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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In retrospect, I played this game completely wrong as a child in school. I was way too focused on actually being competent so I could get a higher score than everyone else in the class. Never encountered the police, never ran out of gas, never crashed from lack of sleep, never even knew it was possible to speed, and wasted entirely too much time making sure the seatbelt was always on.
Completely missed all the fun parts. Like that neat crash effect with the cracks on the windshield that remind me of what happened when you crashed in early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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RabbiTucker
I played Crosscountry USA and Crosscountry Texas in middle school. They were not for DOS, though; they were on the Apple IIe, circa 1990.
I had no idea it was produced by a Canadian company, especially with there being a Texas version. I assumed they were out of Houston or D/FW or somewhere. I mean, they made a TEXAS version of the game! Why do that if you're based in British Columbia
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I played Crosscountry USA and Crosscountry Texas in middle school. They were not for DOS, though; they were on the Apple IIe, circa 1990.
I had no idea it was produced by a Canadian company, especially with there being a Texas version. I assumed they were out of Houston or D/FW or somewhere. I mean, they made a TEXAS version of the game! Why do that if you're based in British Columbia
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gbcleite11
Man, this was MY FAVOURITE GAME on those days. And since I lived in Brazil back in the 80s, all this stuff got there through alternate ways (if you understand what I mean. So, we didn't have a map of any sort, we had to search through our Encyclopedias to know which US state produced this and demanded that and so far. MAAAAANNNNN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!
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Man, this was MY FAVOURITE GAME on those days. And since I lived in Brazil back in the 80s, all this stuff got there through alternate ways (if you understand what I mean. So, we didn't have a map of any sort, we had to search through our Encyclopedias to know which US state produced this and demanded that and so far. MAAAAANNNNN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!
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kuillus
I have fond memories of Crosscountry Canada on the 68k and PPC Mac computers in grade school. Oddly enough, that version is super rare. There is no archive of the early color Macintosh version of Crosscountry Canada released in the early to mid 90s that looks like the graphics of this version (Macintosh Garden has the USA version and a later modern version.
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I have fond memories of Crosscountry Canada on the 68k and PPC Mac computers in grade school. Oddly enough, that version is super rare. There is no archive of the early color Macintosh version of Crosscountry Canada released in the early to mid 90s that looks like the graphics of this version (Macintosh Garden has the USA version and a later modern version.
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chadgervais6323
Woohoo! Shout-out to the first mission, a load of maple syrup coming out of my home town!
I had completely forgotten about this game, having last played it in fourth grade in '96. It got lost in the haze of Oregon Trail and WeatherSchool, another Apple II game that was branded with and incorporated with the weather reports on a local TV station.
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Woohoo! Shout-out to the first mission, a load of maple syrup coming out of my home town!
I had completely forgotten about this game, having last played it in fourth grade in '96. It got lost in the haze of Oregon Trail and WeatherSchool, another Apple II game that was branded with and incorporated with the weather reports on a local TV station.
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Kiristovai
Thank you for your stuff LGR. My family home unfortunately was ALSO flooded 2 days ago by a crazy atmospheric river in southern Oregon caused rivers to rise insanely. Lost a lot, but somehow the arcade cabinet I custom built with my father managed to endure. I hope your life is getting better for you. (also inhale gasoline and steal oil. Nice)
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Thank you for your stuff LGR. My family home unfortunately was ALSO flooded 2 days ago by a crazy atmospheric river in southern Oregon caused rivers to rise insanely. Lost a lot, but somehow the arcade cabinet I custom built with my father managed to endure. I hope your life is getting better for you. (also inhale gasoline and steal oil. Nice)
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speight4327
I went to elementary school in California, and in our district's schools we only had the Crosscountry California version for Apple II. It was very similar to Crosscountry USA but instead of a few cities in each of 48 states had maybe 100 cities all in California (each in-game map is of a county instead of a state. It's on Internet Archive.
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I went to elementary school in California, and in our district's schools we only had the Crosscountry California version for Apple II. It was very similar to Crosscountry USA but instead of a few cities in each of 48 states had maybe 100 cities all in California (each in-game map is of a county instead of a state. It's on Internet Archive.
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heidi_mcheidiface
I played the DOS version of Crosscountry USA (the one from the 80s) at home when I was a kid! We didn't have it at school. I played many hours and delivered a lot of oranges. Never remembered the name of the game, just always called it the truck driver game. But those screen grabs, yeah, that was the one.
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I played the DOS version of Crosscountry USA (the one from the 80s) at home when I was a kid! We didn't have it at school. I played many hours and delivered a lot of oranges. Never remembered the name of the game, just always called it the truck driver game. But those screen grabs, yeah, that was the one.
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tomysshadow
I have the home edition of Crosscountry Canada 2, which I got from one of those Scholastic book flyers they'd give us every few months. It's basically identical to this in terms of gameplay mechanics, but with the graphics having been replaced with some prerendered 3D videos. It even uses the same sound effects
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I have the home edition of Crosscountry Canada 2, which I got from one of those Scholastic book flyers they'd give us every few months. It's basically identical to this in terms of gameplay mechanics, but with the graphics having been replaced with some prerendered 3D videos. It even uses the same sound effects
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mrjsv4935
Nice one, there aren't too many truck driving games, especially for videogame consoles. I've got Truckin' for Mattel Intellivision by Imagic in 1983 and Truck Driver for Xbox One by Soedesco.
Actually sold my Intellivision couple of months ago, but kept some games, including the Truckin'.
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Nice one, there aren't too many truck driving games, especially for videogame consoles. I've got Truckin' for Mattel Intellivision by Imagic in 1983 and Truck Driver for Xbox One by Soedesco.
Actually sold my Intellivision couple of months ago, but kept some games, including the Truckin'.
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targuscinco
I never heard of this one. I knew Oregon, and we had this program in technology class. It let you design the profile of a car and test the wind resistance. It was actually really cool to mess with but its not a game at all as far as I remember. Anyone have a guess what it could have been
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I never heard of this one. I knew Oregon, and we had this program in technology class. It let you design the profile of a car and test the wind resistance. It was actually really cool to mess with but its not a game at all as far as I remember. Anyone have a guess what it could have been
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alwinter
I have a vague memory of playing something similar to this in the mid-to-late 90s on my school's Macintosh. I'm pretty sure it is was in black and white and it was with cars rather than trucks. It may have been a HyperCard game but I'm not sure. Anyone recall something like this
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I have a vague memory of playing something similar to this in the mid-to-late 90s on my school's Macintosh. I'm pretty sure it is was in black and white and it was with cars rather than trucks. It may have been a HyperCard game but I'm not sure. Anyone recall something like this
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noodlemac1
I got this game at a book fair as a kid and loved it. Started driving a local delivery van at age 18, worked the freight docks for years at ltl companies, and have been driving a semi regionally for years now. I wouldn't say this shaped my life but it did broaden my horizons.
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I got this game at a book fair as a kid and loved it. Started driving a local delivery van at age 18, worked the freight docks for years at ltl companies, and have been driving a semi regionally for years now. I wouldn't say this shaped my life but it did broaden my horizons.
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grd1184
I played Cross Country Canada in elementary school. I remember the school bought all new apple computers, they were the type that had monitor and pc all in one, the back half was a solid bright colour like red or green and they had a round shape to them. Good times
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I played Cross Country Canada in elementary school. I remember the school bought all new apple computers, they were the type that had monitor and pc all in one, the back half was a solid bright colour like red or green and they had a round shape to them. Good times
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Madpegasusmax
oh, nice, only needs the 16gears changer; ) , I am a ATS and ETS player, and it's very cool to see this game. for the fatigue, when you play several hours in a row you can crash your truck like in real world due to fatigue, and have to repair it: D
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oh, nice, only needs the 16gears changer; ) , I am a ATS and ETS player, and it's very cool to see this game. for the fatigue, when you play several hours in a row you can crash your truck like in real world due to fatigue, and have to repair it: D
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NickCharles
I've never heard of this one either, my first experience in any trucking simulator game was Hard Truck 2, definitely not edutainment or education-friendly thanks to its illicit cargo and mafia faction, and of course random road mines, because why not
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I've never heard of this one either, my first experience in any trucking simulator game was Hard Truck 2, definitely not edutainment or education-friendly thanks to its illicit cargo and mafia faction, and of course random road mines, because why not
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KairuHakubi
I'm no car expert, but. I think going faster actually raises your fuel efficiency.
I can only imagine the penalty for crashing without a seatbelt is like, representing your medical bills like maybe the guy at least has a neck brace in his truck.
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I'm no car expert, but. I think going faster actually raises your fuel efficiency.
I can only imagine the penalty for crashing without a seatbelt is like, representing your medical bills like maybe the guy at least has a neck brace in his truck.
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