LGR - The Oregon Trail - Apple II Game Review

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In-depth history and review of MECC's edutainment classic, The Oregon Trail.

Did you really think I could pass up reviewing The Oregon Trail? It's only the king of edutainment gaming. And it's friggin' rad.

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The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

drlanator

"YOUR SACK has exhaustion!"
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Classy, Oregon Trail. Really classy.

jeremyj.

I never beat this game as a kid.
However, when I trekked across the US by car as an adult moving form Illinois to Sacramento, I recognized a lot of the landmarks from my childhood game play.

CamdenBloke

Watching that wagon cross the river as a kid invoked a level of terror completely unmatched by any game since to this very day.

GeekTherapyRadio

What a flashback! I played it in 1986 on a monochrome apple II in Mr. Peterson's, Green Oaks elementary school classroom. He promised to teach me code and how to modify the game after school if I brought my grade average to a B from a C. I got an A- average that year and learned that not all teachers are crabby bitter people, and that learning can be fun. Thanks Mr. P!

NewWhirledSlacker

The river is too deep to ford. You lost:
400 pounds of food
7 sets of clothing
2 wagon tongues
5 oxen
Katherine (drowned)

JFrombaugh

"So I usually pick May" Picks April

foxfire

i played oregon trail. The first black box of death was "Dysentery has Dysentery" haha

myosudekuabendo

My school's wi-fi hasn't blocked an emulation of the MS-DOS version, so it's basically what I play whenever I have free time.
Speaking of which, I made the mistake of caulking my wagon and floating across the Green River Crossing.

Everyone died.

zoltier

I played this on Apple IIe in elementary school, we always looked forward to Oregon Trail day. We had a computer lab full of Apple IIe's and circa 1995 Macs. One of the IIe's had a green screen monitor, the rest were color. Everyone wanted the newer computers and no one used the green screen. I might add this was as late as 2003, so the IIe's were 18 years old! I always hear about people born in the mid '70s to mid '80s having nostalgia for Oregon Trail. I was born at the end of 1992, I'm not even 25 yet, and I loved Apple IIe Oregon Trail so much that I still play Oregon Trail (I play 5th Edition today, which is a much more modern version from 2001 but it's still good old Oregon Trail)

October 22, 2017 1:38 am

whattheheck

Cool feature, being able to leave behind your gravestone as a marker that you were there. Very amazing pre-internet especially.

michaelnorrisisdabesteva

It's interesting to learn of Oregon Trail's origins are as a card game... I got the Oregon Trail Hunt for Food card game for Christmas. Looks like things went full circle!

PixelSlayers