The Oregon Trail

Game review

Oregon Trail is a game that was originally designed to teach children in schools about the reality of hard life in the 19th century. The game became popular and spread beyond the schools. In the game you play as the leader of a covered wagon (with oxens) and your mission is to guide your party over a journey known as the Oregon Trail (from Independence, Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley). You have to be careful, there are number of dangers along the jurney - you have to cross dangerous rivers, resist diseases and hunt using your guns and bullets. You might die a lot (even your own oxen may be the cause of your death). This is The Oregon Trail Deluxe - an improved version of the original game.

Put yourself again in the shoes of the determined head of a family who, like thousands of others, headed for a new life in the 19th century on the west coast of what is now the United States of America. The first settlers began to flow along the Oregon Trail as early as the late 1930s, but it was not until the agreement of June 15, 1846, which gave the United States the disputed territory of the Pacific Northwest south of the 49th parallel, that it became the trigger for the mass migration of thousands of pioneers in covered wagons. The year is 1848, and Oregon has been granted legal status as a territory open to settlers like yourself. Can you and your loved ones make it to the finish line healthy and full?

Ahead of you is a journey of several months through the wilderness full of hardships. Although luck there favors the prepared and ready, at the same time it is still true that chance is a fool. What if your car is struck by lightning, robbed by bandits, lost your wife, or kidnapped by an eagle? A lot of it is preventable and you constantly have to think about whether you will have enough supplies to make it to the next stop at one of the strongholds that are very far from each other. You won't get far at a turtle's pace, ideally you should proceed at least one step at a time, you are crying out for a broken wheel with the pelting of a hare. How many opportunities to hunt, gather berries or pan for gold will you take so that you don't linger too long?