The Oregon Trail, 5th Edition | 
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| From: The Learning Company
Category: Software
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $1.57
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 53
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Mac OS 9.X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 381183
Model: 380859
UPC: 772040811839
EAN: 0772040811839
ASIN: B00005LBVS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| | Make the wise choices as you avoid hazards and face the many challenges of frontier life | | | Go hunting, buy the right supplies, talk to Indians and fellow travelers and much more | | | Along the way you'll discover useful wilderness knowledge like avoiding poison and crossing rivers | | | Kids will also get to learn the complete story of the Donner Party | | | Ages 9 and up |
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Amazon.com Review
A decidedly low-tech era in U.S. history goes electronic in Oregon Trail 5th Edition, a game for children ages nine and older that pits players against all the hazards a wagon-train voyage can dish out. Following Captain Jed Freedman and a trio of young pioneers out West, this program teaches history, map reading, geography, and a variety of other skills. Players must keep their wits sharp if they want to keep their party healthy and well-fed all the way across the country. Oregon Trail 5th Edition offers a good all-around workout in reading skills and problem solving. Using limited funds, players must equip their wagons, balancing the need to survive on the trail with the necessity for moving quickly. Shortages will inevitably crop up along the way, and members of the wagon train can die of thirst, fever, snakebite, or many other perils... if you don't have the right equipment on hand to deal with the emergency. Even a well-equipped party can come to grief, though. Swamped wagons can lose critical supplies, and though there are people sprinkled along the trip who might provide help or trade goods, happening on the right trade is by no means assured. Except for being a bit slow-paced, Oregon Trail 5th Edition has few flaws. The people aboard the wagon trains come from a variety of cultures. Though the game glosses over the ugliest aspects of this historical period, it does not skirt them entirely. Players who over-hunt the resources of a particular native tribe are likely to hear about it. The game has a variety of features that flesh out the travel experience, like a trip diary and animated campfire tales--one of them about the Donner party--that effectively break up the pace of play. For children interested in a multifaceted educational challenge, Oregon Trail makes a good choice, capturing the difficulties and dangers of the long voyages that settlers made so long ago. (Ages 9 and older) --Alyx Dellamonica
Amazon.com Product Description
Explore the West, live the adventure, and survive the trail! Kids will build real-life decision-making and problem-solving skills as they choose their wagon party and supplies, read maps, plan their route, and guide their team through the wilderness. Can they survive the dangers of the long journey, raging rivers, buffalo stampedes, sickness, and starvation? The trail explodes with adventure as you face the rugged challenges and experience real-life events.Plus, The Oregon Trail 5th Edition introduces players to the Montgomery kids and trail guide Captain Jed, who are heading West from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, to meet Pa Montgomery. The Montgomery's story is brought to life for players through six exciting movies, Cassie's heartfelt journal entries, and Jed's captivating campfire tales.
Product Description
The Oregon Trail 5th Edition takes you along with a family as they travel 2000 miles along the legendary Oregon Trail!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 64 more reviews...
 I have all 5 version and this is the most fun! November 17, 2003
Tamara Beckner (Fontana, CA United States)
39 out of 41 found this review helpful
Both my son & I started playing Version 1 (which is great for kids), but the graphics aren't great. Version 2 gives you more options, and I get to shop and keep a budget. Shooting food & steering down the rapids is more fun also. Versions 3 & 4 were more complicated because of more choices (who will you chose to be in your wagon, fishing, trading & plant gaithering). There's 3 disks with 3 & 4 and NO LEGEND (highscore list), but you do get to chose what you want to trade. VERSION 5 IS 1 DISK, but you can FISH,HUNT,GAITHER PLANTS,SHOP,TRADE(their choice)& log your high scores. Start out as a green horn; continue as an expert trailguide. If you're a farmer you don't have much money & must budget your supplies & money, but your score is times 4.5. While a banker has money, but really has to avoid the temptation of over loading his wagon. You can have 1 to 5 people ride in the wagon with you and you can name them or the computer will. When my son was under 11, he had me start the game by buying the supplies, then he'd take over. He loved the hunting and fishing. When I played the game I'd call him over to finish it by "riding the rapids" (with his fast reflexes, better than me). If you like making choices in a game this may be the game for you. Remember when gaithering plants the bright red berries are poisonous. If you have them for supper you die, game over. It helps to save your game before that happens, so if a mistake happens, you can exit and return.
"Classic" July 25, 2004
Rivkah Maccaby (Bloomington, IN United States)
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
As much as you can call a CD-ROM game a classic, Oregon Trail is such. It was one of the first extended play CD games to make good use of the computer over the video game console. So far, it has been through five versions. The second was such an improvement over the first, that users may have had extremely high expectations for the next several versions of the game, but there has never been the leap in graphics or play options since the jump from one to two.
However, the smoothness of play, and the speed of the game have improved with each version. While five doesn't have the options that four had, and is in some ways a rehash of the second version, it is still the best. Four had too many bugs and glitches. If you have never played Oregon Trail, or have played only one of the first two versions, I would reccomend five over the other available versions (all are available used through Amazon.com).
If you have never played Oregon Trail, at all, you are missing out; OT is a simulation of the journey made in the 1840's by so many Americans from the Mid-West to California. Even though the game is simple, the harshness and difficulty of the journey communicate unmistakably. It is a wonderful simulation. Kids will play it over and over without realizing it's "educational," and adults won't care.
This is a great game.
Good Solid Game January 16, 2002
R. C. Luther (United States)
51 out of 62 found this review helpful
Wow, when the reviews I'd read said it was an update of Oregon Trail 2, they weren't kidding. It is almost exactly the same, with a few great updates (the fishing and gathering options, as well as the story of the Montgomery family). I really enjoy this game, and always have. I think they probably could have done a bit more improving on the old version 2, but I'll still play with great enjoyment very often.
High Educational Value! December 27, 2001
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
It seems to be true that they didn't put much money on this game, but money isn't everything and I disagree when people talk about lack of creativity. In spite of being "just an upgrade from version 2"- BTW, the best version so far, the new version brings movies that are great. They enhanced the game enormously with a huge amount of historical content. My son loved it, he is playing it all the time, and I know that he is really learning with it; after all, every time you play is a different story!Although some of the art looks kind of old, the game is much bigger and better than most of the games being released now, its new interface functions very well and have some new activities too - besides hunting, you can fish and gather plants! In my opinion, it was money well spent!
THE BEST PC GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! February 16, 2005
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I am a 12 year old girl and I dont really like history so when I played this game last year in school I thought it would be boring. I was by far wrong. It does have realistic events (like the wagon tipping over, choices on how to cross a river and go down hills etc) but it is mainly action and trying to make it to oregon (or where ever else you are going). I was pleasantly surprised with this game and bought it. You can choose the names and ages of your passengers as well as your wagon, job, year and destination. I played an earlier version in school and they arent very different but this one is a little more updated and you can also hunt and fish. It is easy to download and it only takes a few minutes. This game is the best computer game I have ever played and I hope the producers come out with a 6'th one.
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