'' The Oregon Trail 5th Edition: Adventures Along the Oregon Trail'' is a 2001 video game, and the sequel to ''
The Oregon Trail 4th Edition''.
Gameplay
The game design is based on ''
Oregon Trail II
''Oregon Trail II'' is an educational video game released by MECC in 1995. It was published by SoftKey Multimedia. It is a revised version of the original ''The Oregon Trail'' video game. It was redesigned with the help of American Studies Ph ...
'', but adds various new features to the game, such as the fishing and plant gathering features from the
3rd
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system
Places
* 3rd Street (dis ...
and
4th
Fourth or the fourth may refer to:
* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'', a 1972 Soviet drama
...
editions. Updated graphics have been provided for river crossings. There are also added animated segments which follow the fictional journey of the three Montgomery children, Parker, Cassie, and Jimmy, who leave Independence accompanied by an African American trailblazer named Captain Jed Freedman to search for the children's father in Oregon. Various points of the children's story are triggered when the player reaches a certain destination on the trail, which ranges from dangerous experiences (e.g., Jimmy is bitten by a snake) to campfire scenes in which Captain Jed would tell a story that reflects other historically accurate incidents (such as the
Donner Party
The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California interim government, 1846-1850, California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent ...
, the
California Gold Rush
The California gold rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the U ...
, and the
Santa Fe Trail
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, who departed from the Boonslick region along the Missouri River, the ...
). The conversation pictures are no longer animated. The soundtrack of ''Oregon Trail II'' has also been removed, replaced with a single repeating audio loop.
External links
* Broderbund (Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited) page
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2001 video games
Children's educational video games
History educational video games
The Learning Company games
Classic Mac OS games
The Oregon Trail (series)
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Single-player video games
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