LGR - Cross Country Canada - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Jamie
This game changed my life. I played it in school and fell in love. All my youth I wanted to be a truck driver. In high school I did extra classes and summer school to get more credit, I graduated with straight As and a full college scholarship. After completing my masters I was finally ready and was hired by a fine firm which handles logistics across this great northern country. I have been driving trucks across Canada for over 10 years and feel like every day is this game come to life. It's a dream come true and I wouldn't want it any other way.
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This game changed my life. I played it in school and fell in love. All my youth I wanted to be a truck driver. In high school I did extra classes and summer school to get more credit, I graduated with straight As and a full college scholarship. After completing my masters I was finally ready and was hired by a fine firm which handles logistics across this great northern country. I have been driving trucks across Canada for over 10 years and feel like every day is this game come to life. It's a dream come true and I wouldn't want it any other way.
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Nicholas
Aha.
I thought I remembered a game called Quiz Castle from when I was very young, but searching for it never gave me the results I was looking for. Then I saw it on your list of Didatech games, and was able to find it that way. Thanks for that. :D
All I could remember was something with a penguin and keys. and playing some Alice in Wonderland game around the same time. They were both old by the time I played them, but I remembered them on the school's old computers (as well as Oregon Trail and a lemonade stand game.
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Aha.
I thought I remembered a game called Quiz Castle from when I was very young, but searching for it never gave me the results I was looking for. Then I saw it on your list of Didatech games, and was able to find it that way. Thanks for that. :D
All I could remember was something with a penguin and keys. and playing some Alice in Wonderland game around the same time. They were both old by the time I played them, but I remembered them on the school's old computers (as well as Oregon Trail and a lemonade stand game.
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lwvmobile
I remember playing Cross Country USA in Elementary School, must have been in the early 90's, but it wasn't that version shown earlier for the Apple II computers, it was for the Mac computers, I can't remember the models but the larger monitor all in one Macs with a color display (I think it was color and not the monochrome ones. That was the highlight of 2nd or 3rd grade for me. Sadly though we didn't get to go to the school library often enough to play it.
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I remember playing Cross Country USA in Elementary School, must have been in the early 90's, but it wasn't that version shown earlier for the Apple II computers, it was for the Mac computers, I can't remember the models but the larger monitor all in one Macs with a color display (I think it was color and not the monochrome ones. That was the highlight of 2nd or 3rd grade for me. Sadly though we didn't get to go to the school library often enough to play it.
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marsm9
Growing up through the 80's in Canada we never had this on the computers at school. We had Test Drive and then a vaguely remembered helicopter spelling game I think it was I know there was a helicopter for sure lol. But Test Drive was amazing! They actually put oregon trail on later on, I'm kind of surprised we never had this to be honest. Edit: Derp, it was called spellicopter lol I would love to see a review on that for edutainment month! Oh the nostalgia.
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Growing up through the 80's in Canada we never had this on the computers at school. We had Test Drive and then a vaguely remembered helicopter spelling game I think it was I know there was a helicopter for sure lol. But Test Drive was amazing! They actually put oregon trail on later on, I'm kind of surprised we never had this to be honest. Edit: Derp, it was called spellicopter lol I would love to see a review on that for edutainment month! Oh the nostalgia.
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Will
Played this a lot as a kid. Not THIS exact version, but a later one with a graphical interface that, based on what I see in this video, made life a whole lot easier. I was hoping the video would have mentioned it at the end with some images. One of the highlights was when you pull into a diner or hotel, you'd get to see said hotel, and these places could be, unique. Like, one restaurant that shows up advertises a -bubble gum burger- that's -extra chewy. -
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Played this a lot as a kid. Not THIS exact version, but a later one with a graphical interface that, based on what I see in this video, made life a whole lot easier. I was hoping the video would have mentioned it at the end with some images. One of the highlights was when you pull into a diner or hotel, you'd get to see said hotel, and these places could be, unique. Like, one restaurant that shows up advertises a -bubble gum burger- that's -extra chewy. -
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sharkfinbite
Asbestos? Ew. It just reminded me of the unethical asbestos trade Canada. Most nations do not mine or sell the stuff anymore. Canada does and to smaller countries that do not have the asbestos laws. It's not something I would feel comfortable adding to a game. unless the developer put it in there as a public awareness activism of how f up it is Canada still does business with asbestos. -mind blown.
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Asbestos? Ew. It just reminded me of the unethical asbestos trade Canada. Most nations do not mine or sell the stuff anymore. Canada does and to smaller countries that do not have the asbestos laws. It's not something I would feel comfortable adding to a game. unless the developer put it in there as a public awareness activism of how f up it is Canada still does business with asbestos. -mind blown.
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sharkfinbite
Life advise: Don't listen to statistics or people telling you a nation is safer and not dangerous. In real life, danger is a random encounter. Unplanned. You still act cautious even when you are in to another less crime ridden country. Only fools let their guard down too much and trust everyone. Don't risk yourself being vulnerable when you finally meeting that random encounter in that country.
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Life advise: Don't listen to statistics or people telling you a nation is safer and not dangerous. In real life, danger is a random encounter. Unplanned. You still act cautious even when you are in to another less crime ridden country. Only fools let their guard down too much and trust everyone. Don't risk yourself being vulnerable when you finally meeting that random encounter in that country.
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Bloody_Mate
-just for this yesterday was Canada day-
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all of us command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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-just for this yesterday was Canada day-
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all of us command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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Dave
I played the crap out of this game during recess and any free time we had on the Win98 PCs in elementary school! Very much a Canadian geography lesson masked as a game but I didn-t know any better lol. I found this video literally looking up a command for the game. I found a link to it on archive. org and the nostalgia is palpable!
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I played the crap out of this game during recess and any free time we had on the Win98 PCs in elementary school! Very much a Canadian geography lesson masked as a game but I didn-t know any better lol. I found this video literally looking up a command for the game. I found a link to it on archive. org and the nostalgia is palpable!
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Jesse
Oh man I loved this game. We didn't have many games at school that weren't crap, and everyone was sick of Oregon Trail, and frankly Odell Lake was far crappier than it at first seemed. This one was cool because it felt more complicated than it actually was. There was no time to actually play it or learn it either!
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Oh man I loved this game. We didn't have many games at school that weren't crap, and everyone was sick of Oregon Trail, and frankly Odell Lake was far crappier than it at first seemed. This one was cool because it felt more complicated than it actually was. There was no time to actually play it or learn it either!
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