

The basic goal of your party of adventurers is to successfully cross the entire western half of the United States and reach salvation (and rivers of gold, no doubt) in Oregon's Willamette Valley. If your purpose of playing The Oregon Trail is to achieve a high score, though, something has gone seriously wrong in your life. Occupations like farmers and teachers, on the other hand, provide you with only a bare bones amount of cash but huge score multipliers at the end. For example, bankers and doctors will have no difficulty buying all the items they need but will have lower scores upon completion of the game. After naming your character and four travelling companions and selecting an occupation, your first task is to buy supplies based on which character types you've chosen. Independence, Missouri is the starting point in The Oregon Trail. Anyone expecting some kind of realistic simulation of a settler's life will obviously not find that with this game but, nevertheless, it's a somewhat enjoyable educational romp through the American West. A heavy fog then made us lose one day of travel time." In The Oregon Trail, a light simulation of American Westward expansion in the 1840s, keeping a journal of your daily events inevitably includes entries such as the one depicted above. Shore 'nuff, we all survived unharmed, thanks to the good Lord's providence. "After a couple more weeks 'cross this here Kansas prairie, we made it to the Big Blue River crossing.
