![]() ![]() ![]() The Oregon Trail was real and so were the many diseases faced by those who traveled it. ![]() What many children may not have realized as they played this game is that the experiences were real. They also likely remember fording the river, hunting buffalo, and losing a family member to dysentery. If you ask anyone who played the game what they learned, however, it was that the Apple II had terrible graphics. By Michelle Forman, Senior Media Specialist, APHLĪnyone who was in grade-school in the mid-1980s and 1990s likely remembers The Oregon Trail, a computer game where you had to navigate the treacherous conditions faced by American pioneers who used this lone passageway to travel from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon. ![]()
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