Life ain’t easy and life on the Oregon Trail ain’t any easier. If you went to grade school in the last 30 years, perhaps you were lucky enough to play this educational game and learn all about the hardships of life. In the game, you assume the role of a wagon leader guiding your party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon’s Willamette Valley by way of the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848. Be sure you pick up plenty of supplies at the general store before you head out. (Don’t worry, you’ll lose most of it later.) If you manage to not get measles, snakebites, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, exhaustion, and diarrhea, you might just drown crossing the river. Good luck!

Play Oregon Trail and relive the feeling of dysentery and perhaps loose an oxen or two. The breathtaking ASCII landmarks are reason enough to play.