Oregon Trail

I remember when I was in 6th grade and had to take a computer class, there were certain time-frames we were allowed to play Oregon Trail. Back then, it was on the Apple computers, the screen was black and the graphics were green and very very basic. You got to choose what time of year to leave, and how much food to eat each day (I think?), and you had zero control over treating sick wagon members. You also had to just buy as much food as possible at the beginning because it was nearly impossible to hunt.

NOW, however, Oregon Trail has come a long way! In the facebook version, if you have enough money, you can buy lots of medicine to dose up sick wagon members and keep everyone happy and healthy. But if you don't have enough money to purhcase the meds you're trying to buy, you get this message:


Notice that the button that SHOULD say "okay" says something entirely different (cracked me up!):


And in this version, it's very very very easy to hunt, so you don't need to waste money BUYING food. But if, for some reason, you run out of food and have no ammo to hunt, you can always eat a wagon member (no joke):


NO, I did not decide to eat Kaci. LOL!!

You can also steal from other wagons you're a member of to try and get money and medicine and bullets, or food. It's no Nintendo Wii (like I'd know, having never played one, but they seem to be all the rage right now!), but Oregon Trail's been keeping a group of us busy the last couple of weeks!!