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The Oregon Trail, well known road crossing the Rocky Mountains used by the settlers in the 19th century. MECC made an educational game based on this memorable part on the USA story. The player must cross the oregon trail and fight against the difficulties the settlers had. Hunting for food, trading supplies, survive LOTS of possible deaths (snakes, typhoid, dysentry.).

Should you succeed in your journey, your points will be based on your profession, the number of settlers still alive, your remaining cash and much more. Oregon Trail was played by a lot of American people born in the eighties and the game stay into memory as one hard, unforgiving and unbeatable game. Some family would eventually play the game together and children in school would even make competition over who got the farthest before dying in the game! Gwane commented: Who remembers games they played as a kid?

I for one remember the only one we played in elementary school, Oregon Trail. It was choppy and by today's standards is something an elementary school student could create, but when I was playing it, it was the most entertaining game available. Now today 40 years after the game was created, kids are still playing it. It was actually created to be an educational experience of how people migrated to the west to settle.

Me being on the west myself, found this very significant. I personally would recommend this game to any child as a fun way to get education. Ridley-the-dragon commented: This is an awesome game I just wish they would make a remake.

This game is still pretty popular so a remake would probably do pretty well! I'm imagining the hunting only with mechanics more like a cabelas game only with muskets and with next gen graphics and complex colony building systems, allowing Sim City style colony building, all with next gen graphics on a pc, think about it. And with a free modding tool it would become classic, like ratchet and clank, with mods allowing you to make so that you just farm for food and the hunting mechanics are used for combat with the british or it could be totally remoded to make it a halo colonizing game on different planets instead of to America with the combat i mentioned earlier. Reyce 2016-08-10 -11 points.REVIEW.

My experiences with the variety of versions The Oregon Trail have always been relatively positive. You can finish a playthrough in about 30 minutes and there’s enough variety in here to try a few different approaches. It’s also packed with a load of information about the real life trail and the various stops you encounter – not that I bothered reading any of it. If any of you try it and make the trip without losing a single person, then bravo! Send me a screenshot in the comments so I can award you with a fictional trophy. Sandy 2014-02-11 0 point DOS version dont look like the oregon trail delux is any different than the first oregan trail by the screenshots, they look the same.i had oregon trailII and thoght the deluxe version could be about the same but doesnt look like it at all. So guess i will just end up ordering another oregon trail II, it is more life like and real.

I think the oregan trail II is the best out of the whole series.no offense to anyone just thought the deluxe version would be similar or maybe even better than the second one.thanks n good work to you all.sandy. Nick 2013-10-15 4 points DOS version Man, I was the best at this when I was little! I remember in 3rd grade, we had this system in our classroom called 'duck dollars' where you got these little fake dollar bills with a duck on them for good behavior and stuff so you could buy computer time or candy or whatever from the teacher. I'd always horde mine and every Friday I'd buy like an hour of computer time and fucking root beer float, and then I'd play Oregon Trail and beat the shit out of it. I was so good at it, my name was at every spot on the high scores list. Beedoo 2013-06-24 4 points DOS version A well-meaning person gave me the Wii remake of Oregon Trail (created as some anniversary project, apparently) and all I can say is that it doesn't hold a candle to the good old Deluxe release I played as a kid.

So happy I can play this again. Did anyone else take the game a step further and play-pretend? (lol) My sister and I used to cram playroom furniture around a Little Tikes wagon and 'hitch' the handle to imaginary oxen. I think that ended in an argument with a friend over whether she could put the oxen on 'autodrive'.sigh. Good times.

The Oregon Trail

DOS - 1990

Also available on: Mac - Apple II

Description of The Oregon Trail

There are few video games more fondly remembered than the Oregon Trail. It has inspired countless gamers and spawned countless memes. Still, it is hard to say how much of the fondness gamers feel towards this storied title is due to the fact that Oregon Trail was literally the first (and in some cases, the only) video game many children played. Much of its exposure came in classrooms, due to its educational nature.

By the standards of the time in which the 1990 “Classic Edition” was released, much less those of today, there's very little actual substance to Oregon Trail, and many will find it either tiresomely repetitive or only good for a brief jaunt down nostalgia lane.

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Gameplay in the older versions of Oregon Trail consists mostly of hunting every day to make the most of your food supply (a minigame where you shoot at a variety of game) and waiting for your party to reach the next landmark.

Later versions, including the 1992 Oregon Trail Deluxe and the 1995 Oregon Trail II offer vast improvements on both graphics and gameplay. In fact, many adults in their 30s today are far more likely to have grown up on either of those than the variants of the Ur Oregon Trail.

Still, this remains an artifact for the curious. While this is a step up from the days of having to type “Bang” and “Pow” to shoot game in the earliest versions, a quick play of Oregon Trail: Classic Edition will show kids (and many adults) how lucky they've had it compared to Generation X, who had to walk to school through snow, uphill both ways, to get to their vidya.

Review By P. Alexander

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Screenshots from MobyGames.com / Platform: Apple II

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Comments and reviews

moonbug2019-03-141 point

Bear Vs. Salmon, you can convert one of the mainframe versions, they're pretty small and entirely in BASIC. Otherwise this is almost identical: http://www.atariarchives.org/bca/Chapter02_WestwardHo.php

the only one still using win xp2019-02-23-1 point DOS version

why does it skip when on the trail unless something happens i'm playing on windows xp

Belreyne2019-02-041 point

I remember playing the Classic Oregon Trail on IBM Networking computers as a kid.. That and Primary Editor Plus, Where in the World/USA is Carmen Sandiego, and other 'Educational' classics.. Talk about Nostalgia..

OTV12019-01-030 point Apple II version

I am looking for a copy of the original version of Oregon trail on 51/4 floppy disk for apple ll

Off topic2018-04-170 point

It's a shame. 'Pg' is using an online platform (likely with a decent device) to ban a generation about their access to technology.
I am a millennial. I remember playing in school. That's why I am on this page in the first place. Just kind of food for thought to those predisposed do decide others morals based on age. At least last millennials are discriminatory by a LARGE margin. But that's numbers not opinion.
I'm glad to see this on here so I can reminisce the days when nothing could go wrong.

Moon2018-03-310 point

this game is awesome even though i just finished it yesterday lol

dfortae2018-01-12-2 points DOS version

I review The Oregon Trail here: http://youtu.be/KHXThZGUWrw

Ted2017-10-271 point Mac version

It works under SheepShaver running 9.04.

Retro Never Goes Out Of Style2017-07-230 point

Works just fine in M.E.S.S. on Ubuntu.

PG2017-06-27-7 points Apple II version

I remember playing this game back in 1990 while I was in the sixth grade. I used to love going to the computer lab with my class each week, just so we could play The Oregon Trail on those Old School Apple computers. Each of us were so enthralled by the game, it was the only time that an instructor didn't have to tell us to be quiet. Kids today (Millenials) will never understand how fun and educational The Oregon Trail was for our generation. Sadly, the main reasons they use computers is to connect on Social Media (which has led to Cyber Bullying),
Hacking/Stealing personal information, and other nonsense. Only Xennials can comprehend how Awesome this game is, was and always will be! We grew up during a time when life was simple, and technology had not overstepped it's boundaries by consuming the entire world, and turning everyone into illiterate zombies that can't function without an Iphone in their hand.

Bear Vs. Salmon2017-04-217 points Apple II version

It won't run on my TI-83! Halp.

Deegshardie2017-03-13-4 points

I can't play it on my iPad

Paperbrain2017-03-103 points

Every public school in America had a copy of this back in the day, even the tiny school in rural Idaho I grew up in. Many younger people might find it boring, and wonder what we see in it. In all honesty, with the nostalgia glasses off it might not seem like much, but dagnabit yunguns it was fun!

RandomStranger2017-01-131 point Mac version

I cant play it on my mac :(

Warrior_4_Christ2016-12-28-1 point DOS version

Best Game Ever!!!

Luna Moonrider2016-12-054 points

Need to make one for tablets! I hate the settler game. Want the real game on tablet! So does everybody else. Everybody's asking for it.

TC2016-10-31-2 points Mac version

Will it run on OS X 10.12?

frustrated2016-10-24-3 points Mac version

won't work on my Mac :(

Bubba2016-10-17-1 point DOS version

I can't play the game on my browser

cameron pendergraft2016-04-12-13 points

this game sucks its mostly history:O(

NLE2016-02-081 point

loving this game

blondiebear2015-09-13-7 points Mac version

How do you set it up for macbook?

RetroGamer2015-07-102 points Mac version

wow. i love this game and havent played in years! i recently installed mini vmac-- here goes gaming:)

confused2015-05-30-2 points Mac version

Can you play this without downloading?

abi2015-04-221 point DOS version

amazing loved it

Lord_Xarti2015-04-09-3 points DOS version

Why are you all using JUST DOSbox? Use the far superior LaunchBox *(Which includes DOSbox and many more emulators) that does a lot of this behind the scenes work for you? I got the newest version *(4.6 as of this typing) and it works like a dream for me.

Chauncey2015-01-14-1 point Mac version

I wanna play this so badly but my PC is messed up.

Boat2014-11-150 point Mac version

This better have the peperony and chease epigraph..

Me, Myself, and I2014-11-040 point Mac version

If only they had had Viagra. :o(

Simba72014-10-211 point DOS version

Windows 7? You'll need DOSBox to run any DOS-based games on Windows 7. That, or find an old 286/386.

paulo josé2014-09-10-2 points DOS version

this game relate the live the people to living in contry the oregon .
this good for learn the history the civilizacion.

James2014-08-300 point Mac version

nice screenshot!

Steven2014-08-180 point DOS version

does not run on windows 7

Kronick2014-07-271 point DOS version

WoW !!! I was in 6th/7th grade when this game came out been looking for a few yrs for a copy. Always loved coming upon a river and deciding how to handle it. A lot of times would forge the rivers but not always the wise way to go. Current would usually tip you over and cost you supplies. LOL Oh well..

rss2014-03-220 point DOS version

old time goodness

GoodOleDays2013-11-103 points DOS version

Long live the days of surviving and dying from dysentery..

Raminess2012-10-063 points DOS version

We've ALL died of dysentery! :(

rmn2011-12-163 points DOS version

how many died of dysentery? ^^

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• Year:1993
• Publisher:MECC
• Developer:MECC

Apple II Version

• Year:1985
• Publisher:MECC
• Developer:MECC

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