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. 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. The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail.

Reviewed by Yuri Storchak

American history simulation where player have to travel to western borders of incipient future US. The main task is to manage your wagon party and supplies and solve all the problems in the face of obstacles. Have an exciting westward journey in history in the role of emigrant. Playing the game you are learning a great amount of interesting historical facts which enrich your knowledge in history and other aspects of life. You have a lot of possibilities in the game's options, as for example: you can choose a traveling companions, supplies, destination, type of wagon train and much more or you can just push .Quick Start. button and everything will be selected automatically. You may also choose one of three difficulty levels, either Greenhorn, the easiest one, or Adventure, medium difficulty, or try yourself in the hardest one, Trail Guide.Oregon Trail fifth edition humorously was discontinued.
Oregon Trail 5th Edition is an exciting game with the graphics on the medium level. Everything doesn't look bright enough to attract children's interest. As for the game's sound system, everything is done on the high level. The sounds suit the overall action perfectly. The game is good for children as it bears educational character, develops critical thinking, improves reading skills and much more.
Below is a link to Oregon Trail Deluxe, released in 1992. : Click
And here is a link to Oregon Trail Deluxe 5th Edition, released in 2002. : Click

Offline gameplay: 1 player Multiplayer: No

Publisher: The Learning Company ESRB Ratio:

Extras and features: a) Three Difficulty Levels: Greenhorn, Adventure and Trail Guide. b) Different Rations: Bare Bones, Meager, Filling. c) Changeable Game Options.

Drawbacks: a) The graphics must be improved. b) It is not a good game for those who want to play an entertaining game.

Requirements: Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/XP Pentium 166 MHz 32 MB RAM 16 MB Video Accelerator with DirectX 8.0 complian , Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

The goal of the game is to make it across the Oregon Trail with limited resources, fighting the elements without losing your family. Hunt for food, trade with other travelers, fight disease and discover new places. All while learning about the history of the Oregon Trail.

Oregon Trail Free Download

Hunting

An important aspect of the game was the ability to hunt. Using guns and bullets bought over the course of play, players select the hunt option and hunt wild animals to add to their food reserves. Bison are the slowest moving targets and yielded the most food, while rabbits and squirrels were fast and offered very small amounts of food. Deer (eastern section) and elk (western section) are in the middle in terms of speed, size, and food yield; bears are between bison and deer in all three properties. While the amount of wild game shot during a hunting excursion is limited only by the player's supply of bullets, the maximum amount that can be carried back to the wagon is 200 pounds in early versions of the game.

Death

Throughout the course of the game, members of the player's party can fall ill and die from various causes, such as measles, snakebite, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, and exhaustion. People can also die from drowning or a broken leg. The player's oxen are also subject to illness and death. People from your party can die, so be sure to monitor the health of your party. Keep them well fed, choose a proper pace, and rest when needed.

The Oregon Trail Windows 10

Scoring

At the conclusion of the journey, a player's score is determined in two stages. In the first stage, the program awards a 'raw' or unscaled number of points for each remaining family member (weighted by party health), each remaining possession (weighted by type), and remaining cash on hand (one point per dollar). In the second stage, the program multiplies this raw score by a 'degree of difficulty' scalar corresponding to the party's initial level of resources (determined in-game by the profession of the party's leader); for example, a banker starting with $1600.00 receives no bonus, the final score of a carpenter starting with $800.00 is doubled, and the final score of a farmer starting with $400.00 is tripled.

Note: This game is for DOS and to play it on computers with newer versions of Windows you will need a DOS 'emulator' like D-Fend Reloaded.

Oregon Trail Game Download Windows 7 Free

Installation:

1. Download and install D-Fend Reloaded.
2. Click on the Download Now button above.
3. Extract the zip file contents to a folder and remember the path.
4. Open D-Fend Reloaded, go to File->Import->Import Folder and choose the folder where you extracted the game.
5. Still in D-Fend Reloaded choose the game you want to play and press 'Run'.

Oregon Trail Game Free Download

Oregon Trail Game Download Windows 7 64-bit

• 81 votes
  Create your own city with this classic simulation game.

  • Freeware
  • Windows
• 16 votes
  Wolfenstein 3D is an action first person shooter published in 1992 by Apogee Software.

  • Freeware
  • Windows
• 20 votes
  The general goal of this 90's games is to create a series of Rube Goldberg devices.

  • Freeware
  • Windows