Finally played an Oregon Trail tonight and I've gotta say, the Apple II really makes this game pop. The chunky pixel art vistas, the simple stick-shooter hunting sequences...there's a LOT to love. It's a big part of video game history, and was a pleasure to finally experience. If you've wanted to try a version and have put it off? Let me personally recommend this version.

While this game concept predates the Apple II version; it's this one that just knocked it out of the park. It mixed the strategy, chance, and shooting gallery components together into an addictive formula. I think the only downside was finally beating it since there wasn't much of a reason to replay it after that.

You died of dysentery. 10/10 would die again

I played this on a real Apple IIGS for the first time since maybe the early 90s. The mechanics of it feel more modern than they did back then thanks to all the indie survival games with high levels of randomness out there now.

Those are often classified as rogue-lites, but The Oregon Trail is probably much more responsible for creating an audience for permadeath survival sims than all the @ avatar text-based dungeon crawlers put together.

WHY CAN'T I PLAY THIS GAME WITHOUT DYING :(

This title has a few bumps along the trail (hunting especially), but overall, it's a journey worth experiencing. A lesson in preparation, item and time management and making some very tough decisions.