I spent a year or two as the computer lab teacher at my kid’s school, back in the late 90s, and as thus was quite familiar with Oregon Trail.  It, along with Math Blasters and Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego?, was one of the key early educational programs, and I must say, it rocked.  No matter how careful you were about picking the right route, and packing some pickles among your provisions (scurvy!), there was always that random element of the unanticipated.  […]