Oregon Trail II is an educational video game and a revised version of the original 'The Oregon Trail'. It was redesigned with the help of American Studies PhD Wayne Studer. In contrast to the original version of the game, Oregon Trail II made an effort to include greater roles for women and racial minorities.
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I don't have any memory of playing Oregon Trail at school. I played it at home, through Oregon Trail 2, and I never made it out alive. Oregon Trail 2 is, in every way I can think of, an improvement on Oregon Trail 1, a game that had already been extremely solid since its earliest iteration.
It's a game with a learning curve, because very few players are going to intuit that they can get meat on the road but not fruit or veg, and that it matters. In booting up the game for the first time in many years I made the mistake of thinking that all I needed for hunting was some bullets and a rifle. As it happens, you need gunpowder too, and lots of it. In earlier incarnations, such blunders would probably leave you with no real recourse. In Oregon Trail 2 it leaves you trading away winter coats in the middle of July in a dust storm.
It's a game with a learning curve, because very few players are going to intuit that they can get meat on the road but not fruit or veg, and that it matters. In booting up the game for the first time in many years I made the mistake of thinking that all I needed for hunting was some bullets and a rifle. As it happens, you need gunpowder too, and lots of it. In earlier incarnations, such blunders would probably leave you with no real recourse. In Oregon Trail 2 it leaves you trading away winter coats in the middle of July in a dust storm.
Let's keep goin'
this is only partially a joke
RIP oobidiah
Classic old school PC game. I wish they ported this exact version somewhere.
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