Oregon Trail II includes far more detail than the original. However, if the player settles at a destination other than the one they had selected at the start of the game, they will not receive a bonus, regardless of their chosen occupation. While some occupations have more money than others, the low income occupations get a greater final bonus, which proves crucial in getting a high score in the end of the game.
Each skill can make good events more likely to happen, and bad events less likely to happen. The more important the skill is, the more it costs. The player chooses skills with a 120-point limit. After selecting an occupation, the player can select various skills. Also, they may select how many others are with them in their wagon, along with their names and ages. When players start a new game, they can choose their name, occupation, level, date of travel, their starting point and destination, and type of wagon. In addition, events such as diseases (including dysentery, measles, cholera, and others), obstacles on the path, accidents while traveling, and even interactions with other groups in one's wagon train involve being directed to choose a course of action from a set of multiple choices. "Some of them will still fall over and die, and many of them might be weird to play in a browser window." He asks users to share their feedback via the "feedback button" in the archives.Oregon Trail II 's graphics are considerably more detailed than those in the original. "I really worked hard to have only fully-functioning programs up," the Internet Archive's historian Jason Scott wrote on his blog. However, there may be a few glitches here and there. Users can play the games on modern computer browsers. Other games in the collection include early versions of Super Solvers, Leisure Suit Larry, Donkey Kong, Prince of Persia, Sim City, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Street Fighter. (The 1992 version is also in the archive and has more than 37,000 views.) It's currently the top-viewed game on the archive with more than 170,000 clicks.
The popular game was often used in schools to teach geography and history.
The 1990 MECC version of The Oregon Trail, where players face various trials and tribulations while trying to make it from east to west, is among them. Hitch up your wagon and hit up the general store for supplies because it's time to head out on The Oregon Trail.Ī collection of more than 2,300 MS-DOS computer programs and games has been made available for free on The Internet Archive, a non-profit library of digital content and programs.