
If your purpose of playing The Oregon Trail is to achieve a high score, though, something has gone seriously wrong in your life. Occupations like farmers and teachers, on the other hand, provide you with only a bare bones amount of cash but huge score multipliers at the end. For example, bankers and doctors will have no difficulty buying all the items they need but will have lower scores upon completion of the game. After naming your character and four travelling companions and selecting an occupation, your first task is to buy supplies based on which character types you've chosen. Independence, Missouri is the starting point in The Oregon Trail. Anyone expecting some kind of realistic simulation of a settler's life will obviously not find that with this game but, nevertheless, it's a somewhat enjoyable educational romp through the American West. A heavy fog then made us lose one day of travel time." In The Oregon Trail, a light simulation of American Westward expansion in the 1840s, keeping a journal of your daily events inevitably includes entries such as the one depicted above. Shore 'nuff, we all survived unharmed, thanks to the good Lord's providence. Before you get started make sure that you are using the latest Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox."After a couple more weeks 'cross this here Kansas prairie, we made it to the Big Blue River crossing.

This website was not only setup to try to preserve these games, but also to make them playable for free on modern desktop computers, tablets and phones. There was so much change in the 80’s and 90’s with DOS games and many seem to be all but forgotten, but we have them here! (If there is a game missing shoot us a message and we’ll put it up.) You will notice that many of the games will let you change sounds cards, graphics cards etc.

These games were from a time when there were so many different types of PC's on the market that all had different hardware. There is just something magical about the old DOS games that just brings back memories and takes many of us back to our childhood or a time when things were simpler and just as much fun without all the animation that is the standard these days.

ClassicReload was setup for preservation of 6,000+ old retro abandonware games and abandoned OS/interfaces that you can play DOS games online right in your web browser for education and research purposes.
