Finally played an Oregon Trail tonight and I've gotta say, the Apple II really makes this game pop. The chunky pixel art vistas, the simple stick-shooter hunting sequences...there's a LOT to love. It's a big part of video game history, and was a pleasure to finally experience. If you've wanted to try a version and have put it off? Let me personally recommend this version.
You died of dysentery. 10/10 would die again
WHY CAN'T I PLAY THIS GAME WITHOUT DYING :(
Yeah, yeah, dysentery or whatever.
Everyone's favorite buffalo-murdering game about westward expansion. I mean it leaves a lot of the violence out that went along with the colonization of the U.S., but it was written by white folks, so what do you expect? There's also a question about what exactly you learned from the game...
As a game, though, it was sufficiently accessible and complex for even a single-digit aged youth like myself to get into. I vaguely remember the first time I had enough time in the lab to raft down the Columbia river and win. I definitely remember murdering excessive amounts of buffalo without worrying about the longevity of the species, just like colonizers did!
But that's really the question that bothers me about this game, what did kids learn?
They learned about RNG, for sure!
Review from thedonproject.com
Everyone's favorite buffalo-murdering game about westward expansion. I mean it leaves a lot of the violence out that went along with the colonization of the U.S., but it was written by white folks, so what do you expect? There's also a question about what exactly you learned from the game...
As a game, though, it was sufficiently accessible and complex for even a single-digit aged youth like myself to get into. I vaguely remember the first time I had enough time in the lab to raft down the Columbia river and win. I definitely remember murdering excessive amounts of buffalo without worrying about the longevity of the species, just like colonizers did!
But that's really the question that bothers me about this game, what did kids learn?
They learned about RNG, for sure!
Review from thedonproject.com
The true lesson that we all took from playing this on Apple II's in elementary school was that Bankers are useless
While this game concept predates the Apple II version; it's this one that just knocked it out of the park. It mixed the strategy, chance, and shooting gallery components together into an addictive formula. I think the only downside was finally beating it since there wasn't much of a reason to replay it after that.
I played this on a real Apple IIGS for the first time since maybe the early 90s. The mechanics of it feel more modern than they did back then thanks to all the indie survival games with high levels of randomness out there now.
Those are often classified as rogue-lites, but The Oregon Trail is probably much more responsible for creating an audience for permadeath survival sims than all the @ avatar text-based dungeon crawlers put together.
Those are often classified as rogue-lites, but The Oregon Trail is probably much more responsible for creating an audience for permadeath survival sims than all the @ avatar text-based dungeon crawlers put together.
This title has a few bumps along the trail (hunting especially), but overall, it's a journey worth experiencing. A lesson in preparation, item and time management and making some very tough decisions.
My god... I mean, who hasn't played this one? Again, probably one of the first games that I have ever played.