| Control: | Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'. |
Help: | This game is emulated by javascript emulator em-dosbox. If you prefer to use a java applet emulator, follow this link. |
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If you ever wandered how was life in the 19th century now you have a chance! Play as an wagon leader and guide your party of settlers from Independence, Missouri to Oregon's Oregon's Willamette Valley over the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon. A fun and addictive text-based adventure that will keep you in front of the monitor for quite a while. In The Oregon Trail Game: Journey to Willamette Valley, based on The Oregon Trail video game, players place tiles to discover the trails, rivers, forts, and towns in order to move to this new land. It is now possible to play classic versions of The Oregon Trail online for free. In addition to the famous 1985 Apple II version of the game, you can also play several other versions. This page shows you where to find these games. A new window will open in each case. Overview of The Oregon Trail Game. Although the earliest version of The Oregon Trail was created in 1971, it was the 1985 Apple II version that first introduced most of the features that people now associate with the game. Below you can do a quick walkthrough to see what this version was like. For information on how to run this version of the game interactively, see the Play It tab.
Other platforms: | Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. Be patient :-) |
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box cover | Game title: | The Oregon Trail | Platform: | MS-DOS | Author (released): | MECC (1990) | Genre: | Adventure, Simulator | Mode: | Single-player | Design: | R. Philip Bouchard, Greg S. Johnson, Charolyn Kapplinger, ... | Music: | Lon Koenig, Larry Phenow | Game manual: | not available | Download: | OregonTrail.zip | Game size: | 359 kB | Recommended emulator: | DOSBox | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: | 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. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in 1848. The game has been released in many editions by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to it, as well as inspiring a number of spinoffs and parodies. More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.org. | For fans and collectors: | Find this game on video server YouTube.com or Vimeo.com. | Buy original version of this game on Amazon.com or eBay.com. | Find digital download of this game on GOGorSteam. | Platform: | This version of The Oregon Trail was designed for personal computers with operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which was operating system developed by Microsoft in 1981. It was the most widely-used operating system in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS was supplied with most of the IBM computers that purchased a license from Microsoft. After 1995, it was pushed out by a graphically more advanced system - Windows and its development was ceased in 2000. At the time of its greatest fame, several thousand games designed specifically for computers with this system were created. Today, its development is no longer continue and for emulation the free DOSBox emulator is most often used. More information about MS-DOS operating system can be found here. | Available online emulators: | 5 different online emulators are available for The Oregon Trail. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game The Oregon Trail are summarized in the following table:
| Emulator | Technology | Multiplayer | Fullscreen | Touchscreen | Speed | Archive.org | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | fast | js-dos | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | js-dos 6.22 | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | jsDosBox | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | slow | jDosBox | Java applet | YES | YES | NO | fast |
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Modern Day Oregon Trail Game
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For the time, Oregon Trail offered players a whole lot to do. To start with you had to name the four people in your party which makes you more attached to them. You would then have to decide what supplies to purchase. These range from food, ammo, wagon parts, clothes and so on. Oregon Trail is one of those games that has a lot of trial and error and the more you play it the more you know what supplies are best to start you off with.
As you make your way to Oregon you will be faced with many challenges like those old pioneers were in the 19th century. You will have to face river crossings and decide what the best way across is. Deal with going the wrong way and severe weather conditions and most famously of all you will have to deal with members of your party getting sick and dying!
Oregon Trail New Game
There is also a shooting section where you can take down animals that you can use to trade with or for your own benefit on your journey. When you come to a town you can stop and talk to people, make trades, buy stuff and so on. The idea is to get to the end of the game with as many party members as possible and have the high score. Getting to the end of the game with all four party members still alive is quite the challenge.