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The Learning Company - Oregon Trail 5th Edition

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Features

  • Explore the West! Live the Adventure! Survive the Trail! (Age 9 and Up)
  • Create Your Journey. Decide your occupation, who youll take with you, and where youre headed!
  • Talk with & learn from pioneers - Irish, African Americans, Native Americans, and other settlers. Share their dreams, fears, and adventures.
  • Blaze a Trail. Ford raging rivers. Hunt, fish, and forage for food. Be a part of the taming of the wild West. From the banks of the great Mississippi to the sweeping Williamette Valley, youll carve your own trail through an historic adventure.
  • Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 compatible

Description

Product description Explore the West! Live the Adventure! Survive the Trail! Westward, Ho! Are you ready to travel the Oregon Trail? It‘s going to take insight and careful planning to choose the right traveling companions, gear, and supplies. Even then, there are countless unpredictable hazards, like swollen rivers, poisonous creatures, and deadly diseases. You‘ll have to strategize and make quick decisions. And they‘ll have to be right. Create Your Journey Decide your occupation, who you‘ll take with you, and where you‘re headed! Learn From the Pioneers Talk with pioneers - Irish, African Americans, Native Americans, and other settlers. Share their dreams, fears, and adventures. Blaze a Trail Ford raging rivers. Hunt, fish, and forage for food. Be a part of the taming of the wild West. From the banks of the great Mississippi to the sweeping Williamette Valley, you‘ll carve your own trail through an historic adventure. Discover Jed’s Tales Through riveting mini- movies, you‘ll befriend Captain Jed Freedman, an experienced fur trader who is trail-wise and a great story-teller! Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 compatible 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. P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Review Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take one step forward. That holds true for this "new" version of Oregon Trail, which is actually based on the older, more stable second edition of the game; one of the last products produced by the respected Minnesota publisher MECC. Children start their trek westward by typing in their name, profession, and the names of people in their party. They then navigate through a series of complex menus to purchase supplies and stock their wagon. Unfortunately, some of the flaws with version two have also been carried into this edition. Children often overload their wagon, and the program doesn't help them visualize what they have. Kids also have trouble with some new phrases that could be better defined, such as "caulk the wagons" and "ford the river". Along the trail, it is possible to hunt, fish and interact with characters. So what's different? At each main break in the adventure, children can listen to campfire stories about three real life children who actually traveled the Oregon Trail. Our testers loved these vignettes and felt like they helped them better understand what the journey was really like. The children's journal is also on the CD as a PDF file, which makes good reading. Despite its flaws, this edition of Oregon Trail is the best yet, and a great way to experience American history. -- From Children's Software Revue® -- "Subscribe Now!" See more


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Yes


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 0.38 x 5 inches; 3.2 Ounces


Manufacturer recommended age ‏ : ‎ 5 - 20 years


Item model number ‏ : ‎ 380859


Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2000


Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ The Learning Company


Best Sellers Rank: #130 in Software (See Top 100 in Software) #1 in Children's Software Games #4 in Education & Reference (Software) #59 in Mac Software


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    • Westward and adventure!
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As a kid I remember playing this on a Apple II but when you have less than an hour in the computer lab at school there is not much you can do. I finished my first game with the 5th Edition just last night - a four hour game - and felt good for making it, with all the members of my party alive, four out of the six oxen I started out with, some money, some supplies, a wagon still in on piece and even 10 skill points I didn't use when I made my character. And I was a farmer to boot! Course, I also played at the Greenhorn level but I enjoyed it. And learned a lot. Rest before going up or down hills. Go easy - don't rush. Food is more important than anything else but keeping the wagon working and oxen healthy. I plan to pick my own supplies next time and maybe fish and gather more than hunt - you don't waste ammo when you fish. Frankly, I may just leave the rifle and ammo behind, and just bring a few extra fishing rods. Maybe bring more salt, leave the coffee behind and so on. As you can see I am already planning my next game and that's still at the Greenhorn level. The guide in the game seemed very helpful and you should use it as much as you can - it gives you a lot of information on certain campsites and about the trails themselves. I went slow - 8 miles a day - and made sure that everybody, much of the time, had three meals a day. Even with a lot of mistakes - selling my water keg and trying to rush through the mountains - I still made it. Because of that I would suggest it for kids also. Kids hate it when they die. But if they win, even after all the tough decisions and rough terrain, it will make them feel great. And they learn while they play. Hehe! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2009 by Michael Valdivielso Michael Valdivielso
    • Good but annoying video cartoons interrupting game play
I have Win 7, had to adjust the screen resolution in order for it to play correctly. Not a fan of the video cartoon clips telling the same story always playing in between the game, the old school 90s version was better & simpler, for this you have to find & visit a half dozen stores to purchase different items instead of just 1 general store, & hunting is harder in that you have to reset your rifle every time before aiming & the targets are a lot smaller. Still fun, nice bgm & voices for dialogue. Learning Company should make the old 90s version of this & Carmen Sandiego for newer PCs without the weird video clips constantly interrupting gameplay. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2021 by Nhc1
    • Great game
I own the II edition and now the 5th edition. They did make some improvements, like you can now go fishing and gather your own fruit and veggies any time. The hunting is the same. They added a neat story feature that provides some nice history and education with animated characters. You can click to bypass it anytime but it's fun to listen to. They also added a feature where you can watch your wagon cross the river so you can watch and see if it gets stuck or tips over (or, if you're fording the river, you can see it get completely flooded). I still think there is a LOT of room for improvement in the game (better animation, more help and tips, etc) but it's still a fun game to play. I played it on my PC with XP with no problems at all. I also have a Mac OS X and I did have a problem while trying to install. To run on a mac, it requires the "New York" font, which my particular Mac did not have by default. So I actually had to go on a different mac computer, copy the font onto a flash drive, and then copy it onto my mac. Then the game installed just fine. A strange quirk IMO...why can't they just include the font with the game so people don't have to hassle with it? ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2006 by CookieMonster
    • "Classic"
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. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2004 by Rivkah Maccaby
    • Yay Classics! Boo Spamming and mandatory portal usage.
Loved this classic, got it for family play since parents need to be teachers more and more these days and I always enjoyed this game as a kid myself. Hated need for disc at every use (one disc not enough for more than one computer) and auto internet spamming. We have to use the company's opening program that seems set up to use all their programs, so since we only have the one we have to sift through ads for all the others to get to the only one we have. Upsets me its not just the game you download but have to take all the promos for the company too but the game was still worth it. Same as the classic but has a storyline now too which you can click past if you want but the little ones like to hear it. New way to fish, and the gathering option (as in gathering wild edibles) has helped me teach a new aspect of the oregon trail: the need to have knowledge about edibles and poisons. That option was great when tying in walkabouts to discuss whats in our area naturally. we have family in the Northwest so it was fun connecting our kids here with the family there- gave them something to talk about. Other than that its the same old game as it always was- glad they didn try to fix what wasnt broke. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2012 by andreae

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