• Windows NT
• Windows 2000

Oregon Trail CD-Rom review

The kids and I had fun playing the game. It's educational and fun at the same time. It makes you try to think and plan ahead. There are some tough choices to be made in order to survive.

Fun fun fun

I was very happy with this game- it took the bets parts of the previous Oregon Trail incarnations and wove them together for a good overall product. I can appreciate a company which recognizes both the weaknesses and the strengths of their products and uses this information to get better. In this Oregon Trail you can once again chose how many you will travel with and name them (for some crazy reason this feature was eliminated in the 4th Oregon Trail edition), but you can also CHOOSE the times you stop to collect wild fruit or fish, instead of these circumstances just happening randomly (which does not make as much sense). To me, these were the biggest changes to previous games, but they were improvements. ^M