The Oregon Trail doesn't claim to be a realistic settlers simulation, merely an entertainment tool for education and, in that regard, succeeds. Playing carefully is often rewarded with your entire party dying, yet playing recklessly by just moving as quickly Westward as possible, can easily get your party to its destination totally unscathed. In fact, due to the game's somewhat flawed random design, at times it's better to completely ignore the extra curricular activities and mindlessly press "continue" and ignore anything else that occurs. In execution, though, the real goal of the game is to hit the "continue" button, located in the middle of the screen, in order to make your push ever Westward towards glory. Hunting, on the other hand, initiates a short action sequence (sure to please the kids) where you mercilessly assassinate buffalo, deer and other animals you would be unlikely to encounter. When you talk to or trade with the locals of an area, a semi-realistic portrait of an 1800s citizen pops up (seemingly out of place here) to offer advice or horribly overcharge you for one pile of goods or another. The aforementioned icons, present throughout the game, are actually help functions for hunting, trading, resting and guiding. The icons to the left and right of the screen, though, are reasonably well designed and colorful. The small animation of your wagon being pulled by oxen looks as if it uses EGA graphics at best and the map of the United States is basically a digitized version of a real map. Venturing out into the VGA-rendered environments of The Oregon Trail quickly reveals some lackluster project design. The basic goal of your party of adventurers is to successfully cross the entire western half of the United States and reach salvation (and rivers of gold, no doubt) in Oregon's Willamette Valley. If your purpose of playing The Oregon Trail is to achieve a high score, though, something has gone seriously wrong in your life. Occupations like farmers and teachers, on the other hand, provide you with only a bare bones amount of cash but huge score multipliers at the end. For example, bankers and doctors will have no difficulty buying all the items they need but will have lower scores upon completion of the game. After naming your character and four travelling companions and selecting an occupation, your first task is to buy supplies based on which character types you've chosen.
Independence, Missouri is the starting point in The Oregon Trail. Anyone expecting some kind of realistic simulation of a settler's life will obviously not find that with this game but, nevertheless, it's a somewhat enjoyable educational romp through the American West.
A heavy fog then made us lose one day of travel time." In The Oregon Trail, a light simulation of American Westward expansion in the 1840s, keeping a journal of your daily events inevitably includes entries such as the one depicted above.
Shore 'nuff, we all survived unharmed, thanks to the good Lord's providence. "After a couple more weeks 'cross this here Kansas prairie, we made it to the Big Blue River crossing.
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