The goal, of course, was to make it to the Free North. The game was presented from a first-person perspective in static screens. Sometimes your character would have a compass or tools, other times you would have to rely on the sun or the growth of moss on trees. Sometimes you would be able to read, sometimes not - in which case all signs appeared as gibberish.
The game randomly generated a character with different starting statistics each time. In it, you played a slave in the south, and the game began with your escape. One thing that I haven't heard mentioned yet, though, is Freedom. I remember playing the Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, Number and Word Munchers, and Storybook Weaver. Part of the whole anti-discrimination movement of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, I think.Īs a Minnesotan student who grew up in the 80s, I got to play a lot of MECC games on our school's computers. People became much more aware of the fact that a lot of hatred is learned, and that there is no place for teaching hatred in our schools. Now, as for Oregon Trail, I think it has to do with the changing attitudes about civil rights and respecting other cultures. Sure, there were people who actually had respect for Native Americans, and the war was never couched that way, but when push came to shove, Native Americans were exterminated or driven from land that settlers wanted. Although, the displacement of Native Americans from the east to parts further west like Oklahoma, Minnesota & Wisconsin (resulting in many deaths) isn't very widely known by most Americans.Īlthough, the displacement of Native Americans from the east to parts further west like Oklahoma, Minnesota & Wisconsin (resulting in many deaths) isn't very widely known by most Americans.I know that the "Trail of Tears" (the largest such forced migration) was reiterated countless times to us in school in the 70s/80s.Ī lot of the history of conflict between Native Americans and European settlers is swept under the carpet now - we, as Americans, don't like to admit that we waged a war of genocide. Is it right to just forget about it? I personally don't think denial is the best way to deal with history. Interesting history to me, haven't heard anyone who's known about these events aside from Native Americans. At the same time, I recognize that there was conflict going on with settlers being killed or wounded at towns like Milford, Acton & Slaughter Slough. I have many Native American friends and thoroughly enjoy Pow Wows & their amazing celebrations. Minnesota's history is ingrained with Native Americans. One thing is for sure-it was never in another version of the Trail. Maybe you don't want your kid thinking that Native Americans were (and still are) like that. Maybe that's really how some Native Americans reacted to settlers. I could see how you could argue either way to keep that in the game. The better you did, the less supplies you lost. He would ride at a random speed in front of you and you had to shoot when he was in the middle of the screen. There were three frames of images with a Native American on horseback and a bow. " or something like that, it said "Indians Attack!" and then you were holding a shotgun from the point of view of the shooter.
Instead of saying, "You have encountered Native Americans. The graphics were worse but I soon realized why this particular version was frowned upon. So I came into the lab after school, got another copy of the disk from where I had found the original (stacks of old disks were common) and popped it in. Now that was curious behavior for a teacher. I distinctly remember playing the very old one only to have the teacher come up to my computer, ask me where I got that & then she took the disc and formatted it. We're all very familiar with the original but before that there was an even older one with crappier graphics. Having grown up in Minnesota, I was raised in a grade school that had many copies of the Oregon Trail.īut something that isn't often mentioned about the Oregon Trail is the controversy that surrounded one of the first releases about it.
#OREGON TRAIL APPLE 2 EMULATOR FULL#
The river is 19 feet deep, is flooding, full of debris, on fire, and has piranhas in it. Jeff came back as a Zombie and killed everyone else, game over. Jeff caught Cholera and died in under 30 seconds, a new record!
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