Editor's Note: Carolyn wrote most of this article. I (Erin) did the editing. Give her all the credit. Please.
Set the pace to grueling and the rations to meager! We're on a mission of madness, my fellow nerdy withdrawn children of the late 80's and early 90s!
The Learning Company may have originally intended for this game to have educational purposes, but ultimately it became a cult classic classroom time-waster and an insane obsession for kids who loved one or more of the following: history, shooting animals, cholera, writing epithets, watching oxen starve, roll-playing, hiding inside at play time in order to escape the taunts of their peers, and/or being God.
Every elementary school had at least one SICK Apple II computer in my day. Some rich kids even had multiple Apple's INSIDE their classroom (pfft). As for me, I remember the good old days of rocking so freaking hard at Oregon Trail during free time in the computer lab that I actually got in trouble for craving such dangerous knowledge.
Some people chose Math Munchers, but that game had the word "math" in it which made it about school, which was TOTALLY LAME.
So, if you were cool like me, then come along as I revisit the time of our country's brave pioneers through pixilated graphics and 1980's synthesized sound bites. Let's travel through 2,000 miles of prairies and mountains and stuff together in search of a new life for our families in the Great River Valley--at our own peril!!!!
Set the pace to grueling and the rations to meager! We're on a mission of madness, my fellow nerdy withdrawn children of the late 80's and early 90s!
The Learning Company may have originally intended for this game to have educational purposes, but ultimately it became a cult classic classroom time-waster and an insane obsession for kids who loved one or more of the following: history, shooting animals, cholera, writing epithets, watching oxen starve, roll-playing, hiding inside at play time in order to escape the taunts of their peers, and/or being God. Every elementary school had at least one SICK Apple II computer in my day. Some rich kids even had multiple Apple's INSIDE their classroom (pfft). As for me, I remember the good old days of rocking so freaking hard at Oregon Trail during free time in the computer lab that I actually got in trouble for craving such dangerous knowledge.Some people chose Math Munchers, but that game had the word "math" in it which made it about school, which was TOTALLY LAME.So, if you were cool like me, then come along as I revisit the time of our country's brave pioneers through pixilated graphics and 1980's synthesized sound bites. Let's travel through 2,000 miles of prairies and mountains and stuff together in search of a new life for our families in the Great River Valley--at our own peril!!!!
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