We're used to winning our concert tickets by being the ninth caller or answering obscure trivia (the kind that only someone with a pillow shaped like the singer would know). The band Fall Out Boy, however, has other plans. The Illinois rockers recently rolled out a faithful parody of edutainment classic The Oregon Trail for fans to play for a chance to score passes to the band's latest North America tour.
The game, appropriately titled Fall Out Boy Trail, sets players upon a long and arduous tour that mixes together original elements, such as rationing food (band mates need delicious McNuggets and Vitamin Water to stay healthy) with Guitar Hero-style minigames that test even the quickest fingers. Unfortunately, our attempts to reach the end of the tour thus far have been felled by dehydration, constipation or the occasional zombie surfer. Still, as fun as it is the watch the pixelated band suffer at our hands, we're just as interested to read your misadventures with the alternative rock quartet in the comments below.
[Via The Escapist]
Reader Comments (25)
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 8:34AM aStagnantSleep said
No thank you.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 8:40AM CookizREvil said
If it wasn't a dumb band, that'd be an interesting game. Or if you got points for killing them off.
You'd be doing God's work.
You'd be doing God's work.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 8:40AM (Unverified) said
Damn you Joystiq. I thought this was going to be about a Fallout 3 update that includes an Oregan Trail minigame or something. I was going to get excited.
But no...
But no...
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 8:49AM (Unverified) said
Reminds me an awful lot of this: http://www.2pstart.com/2009/01/14/the-oregon-trail/
This has bee in the WWW on 17th of January. Original Ideas I can haz you?
This has bee in the WWW on 17th of January. Original Ideas I can haz you?
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 9:09AM ehisforadam said
That crappy band has forever tainted the glory that is the Oregon Trail.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 9:19AM (Unverified) said
let me guess insted of forging your wagon you got to your room and cry? insted of hunting for food you go to the local bowling ally and smoke cloves? and insted of dying of disantary your mortality is self inflicted? how close am i so far?
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 11:52AM Kif said
Not as close as you seem to think. Fall Out Boy actually isn't really an emo band. The only thing emoey they have going for them is that one guy's pseudo-emo haircut.
They're like post-modern bubblegum pop. Not really a dark group at all.
I think the association is falsely drawn because the brooding My Chemical Romance spawn seem to have a soft spot for the band.
Anyway, if anyone can find me an emoey, wrist-slitting, please pity me, Fall Out Boy song, I'll gladly eat my words.
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They're like post-modern bubblegum pop. Not really a dark group at all.
I think the association is falsely drawn because the brooding My Chemical Romance spawn seem to have a soft spot for the band.
Anyway, if anyone can find me an emoey, wrist-slitting, please pity me, Fall Out Boy song, I'll gladly eat my words.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 11:56AM (Unverified) said
i feel quite safe taking your word for it. thanks...
*grumbling now* for taking the wind out of my sails.
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*grumbling now* for taking the wind out of my sails.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 9:24AM LaughingTarget said
It said something about winning tickets if you finish before March 24th. Maybe you can get a few bucks off eBay.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 12:50PM LaughingTarget said
I'd suggest Craig's List and a face-to-face, but meeting such a person willing to buy these tickets would be too scary.
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Posted: Mar 13th 2009 10:04AM (Unverified) said
Darn it! I was hopeing one of them really did die! That would have been funny!
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 10:07AM Nguyen said
I was about to comment on how neat of an idea this is if it wasn't for a crappy band trying to do it, but I see everyone already beat me to it.
You people are more likable now :)
You people are more likable now :)
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 4:28PM Gnoll said
I'd play this but I'm afraid I'd accidentally win Fall Out Boy tickets.
I'm still waiting for an Achewood patch for The Oregon Trail, let me know when this is made.
I'm still waiting for an Achewood patch for The Oregon Trail, let me know when this is made.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 4:56PM ehisforadam said
Think of it this way, you'd be saving someone else from hearing them.
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Posted: Mar 13th 2009 1:34PM Craig said
Hey everybody!
It's cool to hate fall out boy, even if you've never heard their songs!
Let's insult them some more!
It's cool to hate fall out boy, even if you've never heard their songs!
Let's insult them some more!
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 3:48PM (Unverified) said
They are a bunch of ugly mofos and they do suck.
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Posted: Mar 13th 2009 7:13PM Assmar said
What a waste of a good idea on such a terrible band.
Posted: Mar 13th 2009 10:52PM (Unverified) said
Anybody heard Folie A Deux? That was a pretty good record.
Posted: Mar 14th 2009 12:14AM (Unverified) said
I'm not a fan, but I had a lot of fun with this.







