Product Details
- Binding: CD-ROM
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- Brand: The Learning Company
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- EAN: 0772040808594
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- Features: 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, With countless unpredictable hazards, like swollen rivers, poisonous creatures, unavoidable accidents and deadly diseases; you'll have to strategize and make quick decisions, PC: Pentium 166MHz processor; Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP; 120MB free hard disk space; 32MB RAM; 8x speed CD-ROM drive; 16-bit color; sound card; speakers and mouse, Mac: Power PC 180MHz processor; System 8.6-9.2.2; OSx120MB free hard disk space; 32MB RAM; 8x speed CD-ROM drive; 16-bit monitor; sound card; speakers and mouse, For Mac and PC
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- Format: CD-ROM
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- Label: The Learning Company
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- Manufacturer: The Learning Company
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- Model: 380859
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Platform: Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 95
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- Product Group: Software
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- Publisher: The Learning Company
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- Studio: The Learning Company
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- Title: Oregon Trail 5th Edition Win/Mac [OLD VERSION]
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- UPC: 772040811839
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: 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
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