We used to restart over and over until we got "steel" as our required commodity, then we'd drive to our home town of Hamilton where we knew it could be found. We didn't really learn much in the process.
I had a very different experience. I remember everyone playing it as just a game where you drive around aimlessly. There was no picking up commodities or anything. They just drove from one end of the country to the other and back, until the teacher said our time was up and we turned it off.
This is going to sound stupid, but this game scared me shitless when I was but a wee lass. My young mind didn't understand why you never saw any other people or cars when you were in the cities, at the gas station, in the diner, etc. and the fact I refused to listen to the annoying "Boop-o-tron" (That's what I called IBM-PC Speaker music/noise) honestly just made the game feel even more sparse and lonely, and it creeped me the hell out. But hitchhikers were the worst. Seeing a creepy, poorly drawn guy in the middle of the road at night was bad enough but my young mind and its overactive imagination always thought they had their eyes scooped out yet were still somehow staring out of the screen as I took the wave signal personally and I always thought the hole that was their mouth would "catch wind" or something and all you'd hear from them is the sound of wind howling eerily through a small cave and the fact they could rob you sealed the deal and ensured that they were an early video game bogeyman for me.
Desmaad I did not have it, though that may be because I'm from Quebec and there might not have been a French version of the game. We had Red Alert, however, which was tons of fun.
Holy crap, thank you! I was a chronically ill child, and basically grew up in children's hospitals. My usual hospital tried vainly to continue the young patients' education with in-hospital schooling, but their "school" consisted of one teacher, one classroom that tripled as an arts-and-crafts and home economics area, and a practically non-existent budget. What the hospital school _did_ have was edutainment computer games (I suspect that's where majority of the money went). All the staples were there: SimCity 2000, Oregon Trail, MathMunchers, Reader Rabbit, etc. But the one game that really stuck with me was this one. I played it for hours and hours, burning the dashboard view into my brain. Unfortunately, after I got out of the hospital I never encountered the game anywhere else. I forgot the title of the game, and for years racked my brain trying to remember it. I never Googled because I remembered so little and thought it must be a very obscure game! But thanks to you, I now finally know it was Cross Country Canada 2, the dashboard view of which you briefly showed it around 1:38.
I had completely forgotten about this game, but the moment I saw the thumbnail all sorts of memories came flooding back. I need to sleep, but now I need to play. Also. OH MY GOD! KING'S LANDING! The site of so many of my school trips, where friends of mine worked. New Brunswick gets ignored quite often, so it was unbelievably awesome to see the sign, and even the map of New Brunswick. Hello Fredericton! Hooray! This little thing has really improved my mood.
Travis Stewart When I loaded the game up on archive.org the first dispatch had me delivering commodities to Fredericton. Hooray for Fredericton! LGR thanks for posting this.
I realize this is 5 years later, but those of us who were in elementary in the late 2000s' were only given that also to play when it was part of the lesson, otherwise we had stuff like flash games for after work was done
We had The Yukon Trail, Encarta, KidPix studio deluxe, Zoombinis Logical Journey, Dinosaur Tycoon, Asteroids, Inspiration, Flash Cards and Office, on top of All the Write Type, which naturally we never played, since there was a web browser. Sounds like you got completely ripped off
I played this in public school (Ontarian Canuck present and accounted for!). The frustration level is a thousand times worse because that sheet you talked about with the commodities? If the teachers had it, they certainly didn't share it with the class. So not only did you have to figure out the controls for the game, you had to blindly try to figure out what commodities were for each city. I remember being frustrated and having silly fun at the same time because, as you said, it was a game during class time. I also remember "All The Right Type". Now I want to go curl up and hide in a corner because my age is showing.
I'm not Canadian but I remember playing this a lot in the 2000s to pass the time when I was a teenager. It really had the feel of being a trucker ; stopping in coffee shops,motels,seeing the attractions. I learned a lot about Canada's geography without realising it. Such a soothing game.
THAT'S IT!!! I played the California version of this at school! It was the Macintosh version and looked a bit different, but it's the same game! For the life of me I couldn't remember the name, but now I know! Thank you!
Growing up in Ottawa, it was always a treat to play Cross-Country Canada 2 on the school computers. Always wondered why the schools didn't have the original game... And now I know! Thanks, LGR.
I have no business commenting on a video this old, but thanks to this video I was able to find a game I had vague memories of playing as a child in elementary school! It was Crosscountry Canada 2, and I'd always remembered driving by some of the old rendered cities, but never the name or what it was. Thank you for helping me rediscover that part of my childhood!
Cross Country Canada awesome in itself...showing Gretzsky hoisting the cup 0:11 AS AN OILER...priceless! ;) Everything I learned about Canada came from this game, Hockey, and Due South!
Man... At first I didn't recognize this in the least. Then I heard that loadup tune and it all came flooding back! I can still remember playing it on the computers at school! Wow. What a throwback. Thanks for that, LGR
Yes, I remember playing this game in elementary school, Grade 2 to 4, that was over 20 years ago, the game is as old as me. And today I still occasionally play it using DOS Box.
In my school there were a brand of computers named "Icon" it came with a dos like operating system with a library of edutainment and a keyboard with a built in track pad. This is circa 1993/94. I played this more times than any game.
I remember the Icons. Those systems with the proprietary interface that we would literally never see anywhere outside the school. I'm guessing they never thought learning computer skills on actual systems we'd actually use in the future was in any way valuable.
@@Mundane05 oh no... This was camp where you dressed in 1800s period clothing, milked cows and went to school all summer in a one room school house so that the village looks real. I make fun... But it was actually really cool 😋
My middle school had Cross Country Canada 2 on every computer. What memories. All The Right Type was part of our curriculum throughout elementary and middle school, too.
the province of Saskatchewan has Uranium deposits, therefore a Uranium mining scene. Also with how big the country is there are lots of gravel deposits so somewhere there is industrial amounts of cement to ship :)
Another awesome education video. I've been watching for years, and have even had a few conversations with you. Your channel is great and I consistently enjoy watching the quality videos you put out. Thanks man.
"You win a trip to Ottawa" Because everyone would want a trip to Ottawa. You can visit the parliament buildings, or look at the "No Buskers" signs that replaced the buskers, or oh wait it 4 pm the city is closed.
It makes sense that Canadian developers pander to US audiences, since Canada has 1/10 the population of the USA. Also, I like how the game lists "Eskimo Art," while the reference sheet reads "Inuit."
This was installed on our Burroughs/Unisys Icon computers at school. For those that don't know, the Icon was a computer meant to standardize computers across Ontario, Canada. It was a 80186 system that ran QNX (now owned by BlackBerry) with a built-in display and speech synthesis.
I love how instead of consistently studying for my bio test that I watch your videos in between to constitute as a break lol. I love your videos though and this was great as always,been a fan since last year but watched a great amount of your videos because I have no life!!
3:53 holy crap, you drove to my home town. Thats awesome! XD My school had both this and Oregon Trail, but they were later versions with improved graphics and stuff. I remember I never actually played the game properly, I always just drove around randomly. And the fact that my home town was in a video game blew my mind as a kid.
wow this is so nostalgic! I am most familiar with the second installment because thats what we played in my school. none of us knew how to actually play and just drove random places lol
This brings back MEMORIES, man. I remember we had, like, cheat sheets or something like that where it would tell you what cargo went where and all i can remember doing is just driving until my dude fell asleep at the wheel and crashed haha.
Thanks for reviewing this! it may be hard to tell, but I'm Canadian! (lol). I also suggested you review this last year, and I lost a small part of me a few minutes ago when you revealed to me that the game was preceded by an American version. But still, the memories of this game. I remember in Grade 2, my friends and I would always think it was game over when the truck crashed and we needed to start again. But then I was like.. What happens if you type "call tow truck", and the kids all shared their McDonald's Chicken nuggets with me for a week as a reward for my service.
I keep waiting for him to pan down JUST enough to see some stuff from Nova Scotia, and i was rewarded with finding out that New Glasgow apparently supplies tires and Truro supplies milk. Just incredible.
This made my weekend! Many happy recesses of mine in Elementary school were spent playing this game. That is, if the special computer that had Sim City 2000 installed was unavailable (which is usually was).
Loved this game when I was in grade 4 circa 1987 on the Apple II. There are STILL features of this game that aren't in either Euro/American truck simulator that I wish were, such as Hitchhikers and eating at Diners
I actually remember playing Cross Country USA in junior high! Macintosh edition too, because I remember it was one of the "At-Ease" menu options on our schools mid-90s Macs.
I remember having a text based DOS game called "Big Rig" that I wasted countless hours on as a kid. This takes that game to the extreme. Totally jealous of the Canadian kids who got to play this!
In our elementary we always played Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets, it was the best time in school I can remember, completely forgot that game until I seen it online. Except of course my tenth grade computer class I had with a friend, probably the best moments in my life.
Remember playing this back in elementary school on a Unisys Icon computer. If you ever get a hold of that hardware (it's probably extremely difficult to find now though), it'd make for an awesome oddware episode.
You basically covered every video game that i played in elementary school on the schools computers, wow. I had no idea it was all made by the same company. Now if they had also made Number Munchers that would have been amazing.
Oh man what a nostalgia bomb. We used to play this and number munchers on the apple IIes we had in our computer lab in grade school. Now I'm a bit homesick.
I think we call this the Canadian version of Oregon Trail less for the gameplay and more because in the early 1990s pretty much every elementary school computer had this on it, at least in Ontario. Along with Yukon Trail and if you were lucky maybe Civilization II.
I played a later version of the game at school. I didn't know how to play so I just kept driving to Dawson Creek, because Dawson's Creek was popular at the time. I died many, many times picking up hitchhikers and getting into accidents, but it was fun!
Thank you, LGR; for not being annoyingly edited. As in not making jokes with the only creativity/punchline being the edit effects. Bless you for being funny/entertaining instead of (youtube-)obnoxious.
Spook_Dog Heh, I try my best. I find those types of "jokes" to be grating when used too often. There are only so many spinning zooms, comedic arrows, and badly-photoshopped heads that I can take!
LoL I'm from Alberta Canada and I've never actually seen this. We had Oregon Trail Two. After watching your video, its makes me wish we did have it! This game looks stupidly fun in that special edutainment kind of way.
As a Canadian kid during the 90s, I never had the chance to play Cross Country Canada. With that said, I played a ton of Tank Wars and World Games during computer class. :)
Well this is a blast from the past. I remember a friend and I figuring out (at probably age 12) how to change the name of the commodities so that you’d pick up “dead hookers” and “drugs” instead of potatoes or steel 😂.
thanks LGR for making this video I remember playing this in school - as you said it was really fun but hard as balls because of the lack of knowing what to input
Actually there was a Canadian version of Oregon Trail called Yukon Trail. I played that regularly in elementary school, and as I can recall, is a very similar game.
This reminds me of a game on the ZX Spectrum I played as a kid called Car Journey. It was sort of along the same lines, travelling from point to point but with numbered options at each step rather than the text parser. It also let you choose between just driving or being some kind of courier and you had to decide which vehicle to use depending on how much cargo you wanted to hold, top speed and mileage. It was pretty basic, came out in 83 I believe, but was weirdly fun
"Buckle up"
"Congratulations on your good habits!"
That is the most Canadian line in any video game, ever.
TheFinalSmash the sound track is also only rush, nickelback, and simple plan and the crash sound is just a guy screaming sorry
@@johndelgadillo2815 "SORRY! HERES MY PRE-PREPARED INSURANCE INFORMATION!"
The game should also apologize repeatedly.
4:57 "eat hitchhiker"
Geez...remind me never to get in a car with LGR.
Murder robber haha
We used to restart over and over until we got "steel" as our required commodity, then we'd drive to our home town of Hamilton where we knew it could be found. We didn't really learn much in the process.
I had a very different experience. I remember everyone playing it as just a game where you drive around aimlessly. There was no picking up commodities or anything. They just drove from one end of the country to the other and back, until the teacher said our time was up and we turned it off.
@@theblackwidower yeah we never had that commodity sheet at our school and people didn't know all of the commands so we'd just dick around and drive
Ew Hamilton. At least it's not Welland.
@@fujifilm5127 Nothing is worse than Welland. Hell could take some tips.
This is going to sound stupid, but this game scared me shitless when I was but a wee lass. My young mind didn't understand why you never saw any other people or cars when you were in the cities, at the gas station, in the diner, etc. and the fact I refused to listen to the annoying "Boop-o-tron" (That's what I called IBM-PC Speaker music/noise) honestly just made the game feel even more sparse and lonely, and it creeped me the hell out.
But hitchhikers were the worst. Seeing a creepy, poorly drawn guy in the middle of the road at night was bad enough but my young mind and its overactive imagination always thought they had their eyes scooped out yet were still somehow staring out of the screen as I took the wave signal personally and I always thought the hole that was their mouth would "catch wind" or something and all you'd hear from them is the sound of wind howling eerily through a small cave and the fact they could rob you sealed the deal and ensured that they were an early video game bogeyman for me.
Wow. That's scary!
Kaye Faye
Uh... damn.
Kaye Faye That's hilarious. Made me laugh though so thanks.
Youre not alone. When I played this as a kid I was scared. It was souless and I hated it
you're weird.
I remember this well. Hardly a Canadian computer lab in the '90s did not have this on all their machines.
Desmaad You win a lobster dinner for knowing that fact!
saywutnow Topped with maple syrup.
Desmaad I did not have it, though that may be because I'm from Quebec and there might not have been a French version of the game. We had Red Alert, however, which was tons of fun.
I dont think so. up to the end of grade 5 i went to school in quebec and didnt see this til i moved to ontario.
Desmaad I liked to force my driver onwards with no sleep until he crashed.
And then I realized there are very few ways to lose this game
Remember playing the USA version, but the word hitchhiker eluded me, so I'd type in "pick up hijacker" and wondered why it didn't work.
Holy crap, thank you!
I was a chronically ill child, and basically grew up in children's hospitals. My usual hospital tried vainly to continue the young patients' education with in-hospital schooling, but their "school" consisted of one teacher, one classroom that tripled as an arts-and-crafts and home economics area, and a practically non-existent budget.
What the hospital school _did_ have was edutainment computer games (I suspect that's where majority of the money went). All the staples were there: SimCity 2000, Oregon Trail, MathMunchers, Reader Rabbit, etc. But the one game that really stuck with me was this one. I played it for hours and hours, burning the dashboard view into my brain. Unfortunately, after I got out of the hospital I never encountered the game anywhere else. I forgot the title of the game, and for years racked my brain trying to remember it. I never Googled because I remembered so little and thought it must be a very obscure game! But thanks to you, I now finally know it was Cross Country Canada 2, the dashboard view of which you briefly showed it around 1:38.
I live in Ottawa and don't feel as though I've won anything.
i mean beaver tails are pretty good!
You win Eugene Melnyk!
No wait, that's not right. You always lose with Melnyk.
Im in Kanata
I once played this with custom commodities. "Robber stole your DREAMS". I never ever want to go to Canada now :c
I had completely forgotten about this game, but the moment I saw the thumbnail all sorts of memories came flooding back. I need to sleep, but now I need to play.
Also. OH MY GOD! KING'S LANDING! The site of so many of my school trips, where friends of mine worked. New Brunswick gets ignored quite often, so it was unbelievably awesome to see the sign, and even the map of New Brunswick. Hello Fredericton! Hooray! This little thing has really improved my mood.
Travis Stewart When I loaded the game up on archive.org the first dispatch had me delivering commodities to Fredericton. Hooray for Fredericton!
LGR thanks for posting this.
Travis Stewart Hahah! I went to King's Landing in 6th grade when I lived in Fredericton (for a school trip as well).
1:20
Behold the timeless majesty of Canada's national flag, adorned with the classic emblem of its nation's pride... the red wiggly fish.
As a Canadian in school in the 90's I feel ripped... all we could "play" was all the right type.... And that was definitely not fun.
So you are Canadian!!!!!!!!!!!!
All the WRITE type, wasn't it?
@@Slaanash definitely!
I realize this is 5 years later, but those of us who were in elementary in the late 2000s' were only given that also to play when it was part of the lesson, otherwise we had stuff like flash games for after work was done
We had The Yukon Trail, Encarta, KidPix studio deluxe, Zoombinis Logical Journey, Dinosaur Tycoon, Asteroids, Inspiration, Flash Cards and Office, on top of All the Write Type, which naturally we never played, since there was a web browser. Sounds like you got completely ripped off
You have to eat, lock your car, pick hitchhikers and change tyres? Eat your heart out, Euro Truck "Simulator".
I played this in public school (Ontarian Canuck present and accounted for!). The frustration level is a thousand times worse because that sheet you talked about with the commodities? If the teachers had it, they certainly didn't share it with the class. So not only did you have to figure out the controls for the game, you had to blindly try to figure out what commodities were for each city. I remember being frustrated and having silly fun at the same time because, as you said, it was a game during class time. I also remember "All The Right Type". Now I want to go curl up and hide in a corner because my age is showing.
I never had to look up steel because I live there lol
'eat hitchhiker'
I cracked up
3:34 also: "MURDER ROBBER"
I'm 92% sure California is not a country
Ghost81 It's that final 8% that they were counting on.
***** Oh anti-joke chicken, lay me an egg.
Ghost81 It must bet set in the few weeks it was.
Lazy Game Reviews AHP AHP AHP AHP AHP AHP!!! that was silly
Jacob Gullick That is the second most impressive impression of a seal I have ever seen
MURDER ROBBER
I don't understand the word 'MURDER'.
bomaye Classic Canadians not even knowing the word for violence to another human being is.
cornholio223 you have to type REDRUM or it doesn't work
Jum Black MUR...apologize?
cornholio223 Robber? I don't even know her!
I'm not Canadian but I remember playing this a lot in the 2000s to pass the time when I was a teenager. It really had the feel of being a trucker ; stopping in coffee shops,motels,seeing the attractions. I learned a lot about Canada's geography without realising it. Such a soothing game.
"Steal Niagara falls"
LGR, why u do dis? ;_;
+Tick Who doesn't want to steal large ammounts of H2O?
Canada might as well be the 5st state, might as well make it official. We could call it "East Alaska" or "Northern Washington".
I mean, it is slowly eroding towards the usa, eventually none of it will be in canada
THAT'S IT!!!
I played the California version of this at school! It was the Macintosh version and looked a bit different, but it's the same game! For the life of me I couldn't remember the name, but now I know! Thank you!
ShyTenda No problem! That's awesome that you actually played that one, I've never even seen so much as a screenshot of it.
Lazy Game Reviews The Mac version or the California version? Because you might be interested to know that the Mac version had a GUI.
Growing up in Ottawa, it was always a treat to play Cross-Country Canada 2 on the school computers. Always wondered why the schools didn't have the original game... And now I know! Thanks, LGR.
LOL at 4:57. I remember trying to type in that EXACT SAME THING in Grade 4.
I have no business commenting on a video this old, but thanks to this video I was able to find a game I had vague memories of playing as a child in elementary school! It was Crosscountry Canada 2, and I'd always remembered driving by some of the old rendered cities, but never the name or what it was. Thank you for helping me rediscover that part of my childhood!
Cross Country Canada awesome in itself...showing Gretzsky hoisting the cup 0:11 AS AN OILER...priceless! ;)
Everything I learned about Canada came from this game, Hockey, and Due South!
***** There are some things games can't win, for everything else there's L.G.R.
Man... At first I didn't recognize this in the least. Then I heard that loadup tune and it all came flooding back! I can still remember playing it on the computers at school! Wow. What a throwback. Thanks for that, LGR
I always remember "Put on chains", and just driving everywhere with your snow chains on. Then you get pulled over for it.
The commands he tries are the best part of this video. "Steal Niagra Falls", "Eat Hitchhiker"
Yes, I remember playing this game in elementary school, Grade 2 to 4, that was over 20 years ago, the game is as old as me. And today I still occasionally play it using DOS Box.
I've come here to deliver bubblegum and drive trucks... and I'm all out of bubblegum, eh?
How did you make that comment three days ago?
obijuanrose Cause it went up on LGR's Patreon then, and I'm a patron ;)
Amayirot Akago Blow it out your ass, eh?
Amayirot Akago Thank you.
In my school there were a brand of computers named "Icon" it came with a dos like operating system with a library of edutainment and a keyboard with a built in track pad. This is circa 1993/94.
I played this more times than any game.
I remember the Icons. Those systems with the proprietary interface that we would literally never see anywhere outside the school. I'm guessing they never thought learning computer skills on actual systems we'd actually use in the future was in any way valuable.
I'm quite certain that either had 386 or a 286. My favorite games were a space exploration game and of course cross country Canada
Holy crap. As a Canadian, once that image of everything Canadian ever showed up I lost it. Thanks for the laugh, Clint!
Holy hell, there's a King's Landing in Canada.
The more you learn...
Mundane05 I once stayed at a hotel called Freys. When the musicians appeared I ran for my life.
There is! It's a historical village.. I went to camp there lol
@@AMM3. Band camp?
@@Mundane05 oh no... This was camp where you dressed in 1800s period clothing, milked cows and went to school all summer in a one room school house so that the village looks real.
I make fun... But it was actually really cool 😋
@@AMM3. did you make butter
My middle school had Cross Country Canada 2 on every computer. What memories.
All The Right Type was part of our curriculum throughout elementary and middle school, too.
themaritimegirl thank goodness.i was born in the 80s !!
oh man, im so surprised you didnt mention the asbestos.
love this game! used to play it all the time as a kid in school! thanks for doing this review LGR
2:35 - _"...Cement... Uranium..."_
What the hell were you trying to pull off there, Clint? That just doesn't sound right! XD
the province of Saskatchewan has Uranium deposits, therefore a Uranium mining scene. Also with how big the country is there are lots of gravel deposits so somewhere there is industrial amounts of cement to ship :)
@ 3:20 , I was born in Kamloops. Game is awesome too. I used to play this as a kid at school during my lunch break on an Apple II.
Another awesome education video. I've been watching for years, and have even had a few conversations with you. Your channel is great and I consistently enjoy watching the quality videos you put out. Thanks man.
George wise Glad you're still enjoying, man!
Man, your videos are just fantastic! Kudos and three cheers for LGR!
OMFG LGR!😱 I played this back in public school! You ROCK Man! Love your reviews of games and tech from the past!! 😃👍
3:25 Hey! That's where Iive! Hello Kamloops!
"You win a trip to Ottawa" Because everyone would want a trip to Ottawa. You can visit the parliament buildings, or look at the "No Buskers" signs that replaced the buskers, or oh wait it 4 pm the city is closed.
It makes sense that Canadian developers pander to US audiences, since Canada has 1/10 the population of the USA. Also, I like how the game lists "Eskimo Art," while the reference sheet reads "Inuit."
I don't know what makes me happier: that you did this game or that your end credits music is chiptune by one of my fave composers in the scene.
This was installed on our Burroughs/Unisys Icon computers at school. For those that don't know, the Icon was a computer meant to standardize computers across Ontario, Canada. It was a 80186 system that ran QNX (now owned by BlackBerry) with a built-in display and speech synthesis.
You know the game is old, when there is Asbestos amongs the comodities you may work with.
I had never heard of this game, but I did grow up in Yellowknife so I was surprised to see you mention it.
I love how instead of consistently studying for my bio test that I watch your videos in between to constitute as a break lol.
I love your videos though and this was great as always,been a fan since last year but watched a great amount of your videos because I have no life!!
3:53 holy crap, you drove to my home town. Thats awesome! XD
My school had both this and Oregon Trail, but they were later versions with improved graphics and stuff. I remember I never actually played the game properly, I always just drove around randomly.
And the fact that my home town was in a video game blew my mind as a kid.
You really always try to do weird stuff in your games. I love it.
MURDER ROBBER lol
EAT HITCHHIKER lol
wow this is so nostalgic! I am most familiar with the second installment because thats what we played in my school. none of us knew how to actually play and just drove random places lol
This brings back MEMORIES, man. I remember we had, like, cheat sheets or something like that where it would tell you what cargo went where and all i can remember doing is just driving until my dude fell asleep at the wheel and crashed haha.
Thanks for reviewing this! it may be hard to tell, but I'm Canadian! (lol). I also suggested you review this last year, and I lost a small part of me a few minutes ago when you revealed to me that the game was preceded by an American version. But still, the memories of this game. I remember in Grade 2, my friends and I would always think it was game over when the truck crashed and we needed to start again. But then I was like.. What happens if you type "call tow truck", and the kids all shared their McDonald's Chicken nuggets with me for a week as a reward for my service.
Ahote I know right, as if any part of our culture came from the US of A - or Canada's highchair - now chant it with me:
_"I am Canadian!"_
New Brunswick represent!!
The depiction of Hamilton was incredibly accurate.
I remember playing this in school. I also had Faye the Math Lady on my C64 at home, in the stone age. Love the Mylene Farmer music at the end.
Bummer, you can not eat the hitch-hikers.
So you're telling me Didatech... Did a tech?
sorry, I don't know computer humor
King Harkinian I will take it. I laughed :)
King Harkinian Computer Humor... it's what all true warriors strive for (besides Rule34). I wonder what's for dinner?
Hitchhikers? We call them 'friends of the Road'. Way she goes Boys. Way she goes.
Their ladies of the evening, Ray.
Totally played this game as a kid in Elementary school!! Awesome video LGR:)
I keep waiting for him to pan down JUST enough to see some stuff from Nova Scotia, and i was rewarded with finding out that New Glasgow apparently supplies tires and Truro supplies milk. Just incredible.
I've seen this before but RUclips is recommending it again and I'll definitely watch it again because it's a great video
LOVED THIS game ! we played it often in grade school here ..
wow this brings back grade 4... Cross country Canada 2 was awesome because it had a modeled truck interior with a radio talk show about the Rutabaga.
Ah, the nostalgia! I even like that All The Right Type was mentioned!
I approve of this game! It actually got all of the exports in the towns right! It's amazing.
+Boyborg690_ even the restaurants serve "local" foods, ie Newfoundland serving Fish N Chips and Quebec serving poutine
+argentotenebre yeah! And the fried foods in Vancouver being greasy after 5 PM
This was one of those games the MS-DOS machines at my elementary school had, it was super fun for the time but man a hard game to beat.
Thank-you. I actually played this in 1992. You took me back in time.
This made my weekend! Many happy recesses of mine in Elementary school were spent playing this game. That is, if the special computer that had Sim City 2000 installed was unavailable (which is usually was).
Loved this game when I was in grade 4 circa 1987 on the Apple II. There are STILL features of this game that aren't in either Euro/American truck simulator that I wish were, such as Hitchhikers and eating at Diners
I actually remember playing Cross Country USA in junior high! Macintosh edition too, because I remember it was one of the "At-Ease" menu options on our schools mid-90s Macs.
I remember having a text based DOS game called "Big Rig" that I wasted countless hours on as a kid. This takes that game to the extreme. Totally jealous of the Canadian kids who got to play this!
Hell yeah, we had this game on our school computers growing up. This and the 90s updated version
I grew up with the sequel. 8 year old me was too busy speedrunning it to learn anything
In our elementary we always played Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets, it was the best time in school I can remember, completely forgot that game until I seen it online. Except of course my tenth grade computer class I had with a friend, probably the best moments in my life.
We had Cross Country Canada 2 and All The Right Type on our elementary computers back in the day, good times
"all the right type"
fuck me, I remember that
never really helped at all, best way to learn is to write angry comments
Remember playing this back in elementary school on a Unisys Icon computer. If you ever get a hold of that hardware (it's probably extremely difficult to find now though), it'd make for an awesome oddware episode.
Hey! New Brunswick. I live there you know 👍
All the Right Type and Cross Country Canada were the stables of my elementary school trips to the computer lab back in the day.
You basically covered every video game that i played in elementary school on the schools computers, wow. I had no idea it was all made by the same company. Now if they had also made Number Munchers that would have been amazing.
Oh man what a nostalgia bomb. We used to play this and number munchers on the apple IIes we had in our computer lab in grade school. Now I'm a bit homesick.
I lived for this in Elementary School! Thanks for sharing this!
4:37 as a proud Bathurstian, I am overjoyed to see we made a video of yours!
Great music choice at the end. Buying the album as FLAC.
I think we call this the Canadian version of Oregon Trail less for the gameplay and more because in the early 1990s pretty much every elementary school computer had this on it, at least in Ontario. Along with Yukon Trail and if you were lucky maybe Civilization II.
I played a later version of the game at school. I didn't know how to play so I just kept driving to Dawson Creek, because Dawson's Creek was popular at the time. I died many, many times picking up hitchhikers and getting into accidents, but it was fun!
OMG He Said Winnipeg. I live there and very rarley hear people talk about it
Thank you, LGR; for not being annoyingly edited. As in not making jokes with the only creativity/punchline being the edit effects. Bless you for being funny/entertaining instead of (youtube-)obnoxious.
Spook_Dog Heh, I try my best. I find those types of "jokes" to be grating when used too often. There are only so many spinning zooms, comedic arrows, and badly-photoshopped heads that I can take!
This game, Sleuth and Discover The World (PC version) were my memories of computer time when i was in grade school
LoL I'm from Alberta Canada and I've never actually seen this.
We had Oregon Trail Two. After watching your video, its makes
me wish we did have it! This game looks stupidly fun in that
special edutainment kind of way.
Thanks! This was awesome! Wasn't aware of Internet Archive before this video! Looks so cool! Best.
As a Canadian kid during the 90s, I never had the chance to play Cross Country Canada. With that said, I played a ton of Tank Wars and World Games during computer class. :)
Well this is a blast from the past. I remember a friend and I figuring out (at probably age 12) how to change the name of the commodities so that you’d pick up “dead hookers” and “drugs” instead of potatoes or steel 😂.
AhhhHahahah😂
Ha I remember this game! My school had the newer one without the text-based commands though. They also had a version for British Columbia.
OMG! I had this on my computers at school!
I am Canadian and had never heard of this. Excited to watch.
thanks LGR for making this video I remember playing this in school - as you said it was really fun but hard as balls because of the lack of knowing what to input
Actually there was a Canadian version of Oregon Trail called Yukon Trail. I played that regularly in elementary school, and as I can recall, is a very similar game.
This reminds me of a game on the ZX Spectrum I played as a kid called Car Journey. It was sort of along the same lines, travelling from point to point but with numbered options at each step rather than the text parser.
It also let you choose between just driving or being some kind of courier and you had to decide which vehicle to use depending on how much cargo you wanted to hold, top speed and mileage.
It was pretty basic, came out in 83 I believe, but was weirdly fun