'Edutainment:' The Oregon Trail

Melissa Selleys

Oh, doesn't the game's name bring you back? I remember playing it for the first time in a school computer lab, naming my party members ridiculously, buying a ton of food, and setting out at top speed across 2,000 miles of unforgiving trail, only to drown in a river or die suddenly of dysentery. Yes, the game and all of it's iterations, Oregon Trail II being my all time favorite, remind me of a ... ...more

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20. #dysentery