The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

DOS - 1990

Also available on: Mac - Apple II

Oregon Trail 5th Edition - 2nd version Minimum System Requirements Windows® XP (Home & Pro) SP3/Vista SP1™¹ Intel® Pentium® II 300MHz (800 MHz processor or higher for Vista) 128 MB RAM (512 MB RAM for Vista) 575 MB free hard drive space² 8x (or faster) CD-ROM drive 16-bit color monitor capable of 640 x 480 resolution DirectX® 8.0 or higher. Software PC Mac. For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE. Oregon Trail 5th Edition presents a fun adventure that will test your survival skills. With The Oregon Trail: 5th Edition, you can almost smell the dust from the wagon train. Build problem solving skills as you guide your wagon party through the wilderness. Develop solutions to help your friends and family survive the dangers of the long journey, including raging rivers, buffalo stampedes, sickness, and starvation. Shop The Oregon Trail: 5th Edition Mac/Windows at Best Buy. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Price Match Guarantee.

4.33 / 5 - 226 votes

Oregon Trail Free Download Mac Os X I have a problem with sound working correctly on 'The Oregon Trail' (5th Edition) on my iMac running Mac OS X 10.6.2. The lips on the characters move but about 50% of the words are never heard.

Description of The Oregon Trail

There are few video games more fondly remembered than the Oregon Trail. It has inspired countless gamers and spawned countless memes. Still, it is hard to say how much of the fondness gamers feel towards this storied title is due to the fact that Oregon Trail was literally the first (and in some cases, the only) video game many children played. Much of its exposure came in classrooms, due to its educational nature.

By the standards of the time in which the 1990 “Classic Edition” was released, much less those of today, there's very little actual substance to Oregon Trail, and many will find it either tiresomely repetitive or only good for a brief jaunt down nostalgia lane.

Gameplay in the older versions of Oregon Trail consists mostly of hunting every day to make the most of your food supply (a minigame where you shoot at a variety of game) and waiting for your party to reach the next landmark.

Later versions, including the 1992 Oregon Trail Deluxe and the 1995 Oregon Trail II offer vast improvements on both graphics and gameplay. In fact, many adults in their 30s today are far more likely to have grown up on either of those than the variants of the Ur Oregon Trail.

Still, this remains an artifact for the curious. While this is a step up from the days of having to type “Bang” and “Pow” to shoot game in the earliest versions, a quick play of Oregon Trail: Classic Edition will show kids (and many adults) how lucky they've had it compared to Generation X, who had to walk to school through snow, uphill both ways, to get to their vidya.

Review By P. Alexander

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Screenshots from MobyGames.com / Platform: Apple II

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Comments and reviews

gerald2020-12-030 point

how tf do i run this on dos box idk how computers work

idontknowsomenerdiguess2020-09-170 point DOS version

i play it in school i play in house i play it in bathroom i play it in shower i play it in coffin

Kevin B2020-06-081 point DOS version

If your trying to run this game on a Windows 10 PC, you will need DOSbox to run it as it won't run normally in this version of Windows.

Morbid_Decay2020-05-141 point DOS version

This is my first time playing it. it's sooooooooo good!

vicsar2020-05-092 points DOS version

I had never played the original, only the deluxe version. This is fun :-)

moonbug2019-03-143 points

Bear Vs. Salmon, you can convert one of the mainframe versions, they're pretty small and entirely in BASIC. Otherwise this is almost identical: http://www.atariarchives.org/bca/Chapter02_WestwardHo.php

the only one still using win xp2019-02-23-3 points DOS version

why does it skip when on the trail unless something happens i'm playing on windows xp

Belreyne2019-02-041 point

I remember playing the Classic Oregon Trail on IBM Networking computers as a kid.... That and Primary Editor Plus, Where in the World/USA is Carmen Sandiego, and other 'Educational' classics... Talk about Nostalgia....

OTV12019-01-03-3 points Apple II version

I am looking for a copy of the original version of Oregon trail on 51/4 floppy disk for apple ll

Off topic2018-04-173 points

It's a shame. 'Pg' is using an online platform (likely with a decent device) to ban a generation about their access to technology.
I am a millennial. I remember playing in school. That's why I am on this page in the first place. Just kind of food for thought to those predisposed do decide others morals based on age. At least last millennials are discriminatory by a LARGE margin. But that's numbers not opinion.
I'm glad to see this on here so I can reminisce the days when nothing could go wrong.

Moon2018-03-310 point

this game is awesome even though i just finished it yesterday lol

dfortae2018-01-12-3 points DOS version

Oregon Trail 5th Edition Free Mac Free

I review The Oregon Trail here: http://youtu.be/KHXThZGUWrw

Ted2017-10-271 point Mac version

It works under SheepShaver running 9.04.

Retro Never Goes Out Of Style2017-07-230 point

Works just fine in M.E.S.S. on Ubuntu.

PG2017-06-27-10 points Apple II version

I remember playing this game back in 1990 while I was in the sixth grade. I used to love going to the computer lab with my class each week, just so we could play The Oregon Trail on those Old School Apple computers. Each of us were so enthralled by the game, it was the only time that an instructor didn't have to tell us to be quiet. Kids today (Millenials) will never understand how fun and educational The Oregon Trail was for our generation. Sadly, the main reasons they use computers is to connect on Social Media (which has led to Cyber Bullying),
Hacking/Stealing personal information, and other nonsense. Only Xennials can comprehend how Awesome this game is, was and always will be! We grew up during a time when life was simple, and technology had not overstepped it's boundaries by consuming the entire world, and turning everyone into illiterate zombies that can't function without an Iphone in their hand.

Bear Vs. Salmon2017-04-218 points Apple II version

It won't run on my TI-83! Halp.

Deegshardie2017-03-13-4 points

I can't play it on my iPad

Paperbrain2017-03-104 points

Every public school in America had a copy of this back in the day, even the tiny school in rural Idaho I grew up in. Man