The Learning Company - Oregon Trail 5th Edition

4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars | 1,187 ratings

Price: 18.82

Last update: 01-11-2025


About this item

Explore the West! Live the Adventure! Survive the Trail! (Age 9 and Up)
Create Your Journey. Decide your occupation, who you‘ll take with you, and where you‘re headed!
Talk with & learn from pioneers - Irish, African Americans, Native Americans, and other settlers. Share their dreams, fears, and adventures.
Blaze a Trail. Ford raging rivers. Hunt, fish, and forage for food. Be a part of the taming of the wild West. From the banks of the great Mississippi to the sweeping Williamette Valley, you‘ll carve your own trail through an historic adventure.
Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 compatible

Top reviews from the United States

911hutch
5.0 out of 5 stars Sadly won't work on windows 10
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020
I love this game. I grew up on it and it is a great learning tool. Although they need up update their stuff because while these will run on Windows 10 they don't let you finish the game. After playing some of the game it cuts out and kicks you off the game. My kids were really bummed because they LOVED this game!
Rivkah Maccaby
5.0 out of 5 stars "Classic"
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2004
As much as you can call a CD-ROM game a classic, Oregon Trail is such. It was one of the first extended play CD games to make good use of the computer over the video game console. So far, it has been through five versions. The second was such an improvement over the first, that users may have had extremely high expectations for the next several versions of the game, but there has never been the leap in graphics or play options since the jump from one to two.

However, the smoothness of play, and the speed of the game have improved with each version. While five doesn't have the options that four had, and is in some ways a rehash of the second version, it is still the best. Four had too many bugs and glitches. If you have never played Oregon Trail, or have played only one of the first two versions, I would reccomend five over the other available versions (all are available used through Amazon.com).

If you have never played Oregon Trail, at all, you are missing out; OT is a simulation of the journey made in the 1840's by so many Americans from the Mid-West to California. Even though the game is simple, the harshness and difficulty of the journey communicate unmistakably. It is a wonderful simulation. Kids will play it over and over without realizing it's "educational," and adults won't care.

This is a great game.
SueAdel
1.0 out of 5 stars New York 18 font - WILL NOT WORK
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2011
Anyone purchases this game to play on a new Mac - system OS10 an above should be aware that this game will be useless to you. The system requires the font New York 18 to run. It is impossible to find and download this font on the internet, and unless you have access to the OS9 system disks, you will be very frustrated and waste much time. I took my laptop to the Apple store and they were able to download the font from an internet site that I have since been unable to find. However, once installed, the game is skippy and the audio sped up. I am sooooo frustrated and unhappy. This was a great game, and I need it for my fourth grade Oregon Trail unit. This information is not stated when you purchase this game - so I hope this post can get moved to the top of the list. IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO FIX THIS ISSUE (please don't say Google New York 18 - been there - done that - for hours) I would appreciate the help so much. [email protected]
Michael Valdivielso
5.0 out of 5 stars Westward and adventure!
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2009
As a kid I remember playing this on a Apple II but when you have less than an hour in the computer lab at school there is not much you can do. I finished my first game with the 5th Edition just last night - a four hour game - and felt good for making it, with all the members of my party alive, four out of the six oxen I started out with, some money, some supplies, a wagon still in on piece and even 10 skill points I didn't use when I made my character. And I was a farmer to boot! Course, I also played at the Greenhorn level but I enjoyed it. And learned a lot. Rest before going up or down hills. Go easy - don't rush. Food is more important than anything else but keeping the wagon working and oxen healthy. I plan to pick my own supplies next time and maybe fish and gather more than hunt - you don't waste ammo when you fish. Frankly, I may just leave the rifle and ammo behind, and just bring a few extra fishing rods. Maybe bring more salt, leave the coffee behind and so on. As you can see I am already planning my next game and that's still at the Greenhorn level. The guide in the game seemed very helpful and you should use it as much as you can - it gives you a lot of information on certain campsites and about the trails themselves. I went slow - 8 miles a day - and made sure that everybody, much of the time, had three meals a day. Even with a lot of mistakes - selling my water keg and trying to rush through the mountains - I still made it. Because of that I would suggest it for kids also. Kids hate it when they die. But if they win, even after all the tough decisions and rough terrain, it will make them feel great.
And they learn while they play. Hehe!
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Michael Valdivielso
5.0 out of 5 stars Westward and adventure!
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2009
As a kid I remember playing this on a Apple II but when you have less than an hour in the computer lab at school there is not much you can do. I finished my first game with the 5th Edition just last night - a four hour game - and felt good for making it, with all the members of my party alive, four out of the six oxen I started out with, some money, some supplies, a wagon still in on piece and even 10 skill points I didn't use when I made my character. And I was a farmer to boot! Course, I also played at the Greenhorn level but I enjoyed it. And learned a lot. Rest before going up or down hills. Go easy - don't rush. Food is more important than anything else but keeping the wagon working and oxen healthy. I plan to pick my own supplies next time and maybe fish and gather more than hunt - you don't waste ammo when you fish. Frankly, I may just leave the rifle and ammo behind, and just bring a few extra fishing rods. Maybe bring more salt, leave the coffee behind and so on. As you can see I am already planning my next game and that's still at the Greenhorn level. The guide in the game seemed very helpful and you should use it as much as you can - it gives you a lot of information on certain campsites and about the trails themselves. I went slow - 8 miles a day - and made sure that everybody, much of the time, had three meals a day. Even with a lot of mistakes - selling my water keg and trying to rush through the mountains - I still made it. Because of that I would suggest it for kids also. Kids hate it when they die. But if they win, even after all the tough decisions and rough terrain, it will make them feel great.
And they learn while they play. Hehe!
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CookieMonster
4.0 out of 5 stars Great game
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2006
I own the II edition and now the 5th edition. They did make some improvements, like you can now go fishing and gather your own fruit and veggies any time. The hunting is the same. They added a neat story feature that provides some nice history and education with animated characters. You can click to bypass it anytime but it's fun to listen to. They also added a feature where you can watch your wagon cross the river so you can watch and see if it gets stuck or tips over (or, if you're fording the river, you can see it get completely flooded). I still think there is a LOT of room for improvement in the game (better animation, more help and tips, etc) but it's still a fun game to play. I played it on my PC with XP with no problems at all. I also have a Mac OS X and I did have a problem while trying to install. To run on a mac, it requires the "New York" font, which my particular Mac did not have by default. So I actually had to go on a different mac computer, copy the font onto a flash drive, and then copy it onto my mac. Then the game installed just fine. A strange quirk IMO...why can't they just include the font with the game so people don't have to hassle with it?
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Works on my Windows 10 machine
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2017
This is not really going to be a review of the game's content. The Oregon Trail franchise is well-known, and I think most people already know whether they want it or not. Instead, I'm going to address the question of whether it will run on newer operating systems.

I ordered this particular version of the game specifically to see if I could get it to run on my Windows 10 machine. Since it's an older game, I was prepared to have to use workarounds, but it worked almost perfectly on installation. I don't even have to use compatibility settings. Hunting and fishing work well, and it doesn't crash when you save a game. The only issue I've run across is that the videos that make up the Montgomery children's story are jittery; there's a black "flash" every few seconds as they play. But those are easily skipped.

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