Steve
Powers, IGlobal
Exerpt from review written for Computer Currents, October
1996
Unlike
many computer games, the combinations are endless and it would
take many, many hours of playing to exhaust every possible
variation. I don't think too many players are going to be
able to create every possible scenario; therefore the user
is provided a game that is fresh every time out. The game
has come a long way since I played it back in the mid '80s.
I am proud to say that on my first time out, I made the long
trip successfully all the way to Oregon City, despite the
loss of my daughter to snakebite, several wagon spills, one
sinking into the South Platte River and taking bad advice
from several characters (not every character gives good advice
when asked). The trip was fascinating, and though long past
school-age days, I learned things about the Oregon Trail that
I certainly never learned back in school.
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5/17/99
Lisa Morehouse
Teacher, Balboa High School, San Francisco
I remember
playing The Oregon Trail when I was in junior high. Our teacher
let us go to the library if we'd finished work early. I remember
plotting and planning all day--trying to figure out how to
keep myself from getting dysentery. I loved it--there was
something about it that was so exciting, even mesmerizing.
I'd be transported for an afternoon to the Willamette Valley
and would dream of crossing rivers and trying to fix broxen
axles...this was before the images and sound were used much,
but that didn't stop my imagination...
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