The best bet might be to repaint the keys, or go all out and 3D print new ones with whatever iconography works for your intended purposes. The directional pad (with diagonals) is nice, but not sure what kind of mileage you’ll really get out of a “Wagon” button. The biggest problem I see is the rather limited utility of the keys currently on the game. One of the devices on the board has had the label completely obliterated, but the other two were visible under the microscope. I thought for sure they would at least change the language, but no dice. There are a few solder jumper pads which looked interesting, but after bridging them in different combinations I didn’t notice anything changing the game. There’s a dizzying array of test points, but none labeled to say what they do. Main Board and LCDĪs you might expect, the main board of The Oregon Trail is hiding most of its goodies under black epoxy blobs. It seems exceptionally wasteful from a materials standpoint, but absolutely fantastic if you’re trying to put extra gear inside. I really can’t stress how much open area there is inside the case, you could literally fill the thing with rocks and then easily screw it back together. To put some numbers to it, the inside of the case is about 140 mm long, 82 mm wide, and 40 mm deep. There’s also plenty of space to put a rechargeable battery, which is good because the three AAs that power the device aren’t likely to get you very far. You could easily fit the Pi 3 inside of the case, to say nothing of the Pi Zero. The case must be at least twice as big as it needs to be, the majority of the device is just dead space. So the first thing you notice inside The Oregon Trail is that it’s absolutely cavernous inside. Even though it’s very small by modern standards, everything is perfectly readable and the graphics, such as they are, look great.Īlright, now that we’ve put away our rose-tinted glasses, let’s see what’s hiding inside of this faux-PC. The screen is surprisingly sharp, though a bit dim compared to the smartphones we spend our days staring into. That noise brings me right back to the days of DOS gaming on my 386. The case feels strong, the buttons respond nicely, and I can’t help but love the satisfying “ker-chunk” the power button (the gray bar in the “floppy drive”) makes. I have to say, it’s pretty impressive given how cheap it is. I would be remiss if I tore the thing apart without at least playing it for a bit and commenting on the system as a whole. If there was ever a cheap game system that was begging to be infused with a Raspberry Pi and some retro PC games, this thing is it. No, you’re reading this post because somebody has put out a handheld PC-looking game system, complete with a simplified keyboard and you want to know what’s inside it. Surely, there’s worse things you could geek-out on than interactive early American history.

Naturally there have been versions of the game for mobile devices in the past, but how is that going to help you when you want to make your peers at the coffee shop jealous?īut we’re not here to pass judgement on those who hold a special place for The Oregon Trail in their hearts. Priced at $24.99 USD and designed to look like the classic beige-box computers that everyone of a certain age remembers from “Computer Class”, it allows you to experience all the thrills of dying from dysentery on the go.

Now that those fans are old enough to have disposable incomes, we are naturally seeing a resurgence of The Oregon Trail merchandise to capitalize on one of humanity’s greatest weaknesses: nostalgia.Įnter the Target-exclusive The Oregon Trail handheld game. Thanks to its vaguely educational nature, it was a staple of school computers until the early 2000’s, creating generations of fans.

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