History Trivia / TheOregonTrail

*** "In Power Up Mix-up (Part 1)", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as a result of video games getting their power-ups mixed-up]], the [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} BFG gun]] is delivered to ''The Oregon Trail'', allowing the player to kill every single animal when they shoot them.

*** In "If Video Games Had Improssible Mode", the player shoots at animals, when suddenly, a monster from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' appears out of nowhere. Due to the monster's immunity to bullets, the player cannot kill it and ends up getting killed by it instead.

** Played straight in ''Oregon Trail II'' with alkali sickness. Shortly after 1860 it was discovered that what was then called "alkali sickness" had nothing to do with alkali but ingesting white snakeroot poison. The game treats it as if it was actually alkali..

* ScienceMarchesOn: Inverted, actually, in ''Oregon Trail II'' and its sequels. While you're limited to nineteenth-century medicines, the medical advice from your guidebook and other characters is unrealistically accurate for the period. For example, cholera being airborne was the overwhelming medical consensus of the time. The disease being waterborne was first proposed by John Snow in 1854, and his view was extremely controversial for a while. The game, however, acts like it's already an established fact that cholera is waterborne. Also, bloodletting was a be-all-end-all treatment during the period in which the game takes place, but it's never offered as an option or even mentioned.

* MultiDiscWork: The 5.25'' DOS version has two disks.

* ItsBeenDone: When Target put out a handheld version of the game in 2018, people were crying out for a port of ''Oregon Trail'' for [=iOS=] and Android. That actually happened in 2011 (see Porting Disaster entry in YMMV), but then Gameloft mismanaged the franchise and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed the game over]]...[[note]]Speculation abound that Gameloft only agreed to porting the game because they wanted the license to the franchise to create a "''VideoGame/FarmVille'' clone" based around Oregon Trail. This is mostly supported by the fact that said ''[=FarmVille=]'' clone is still going strong while the actual game ports had been retired several years ago at this point[[/note]]

* ScienceMarchesOn: Inverted, actually, in ''Oregon Trail II'' and its sequels. While you're limited to nineteenth-century medicines, the medical advice from your guidebook and other characters is unrealistically accurate for the period. For example, cholera being airborne was the overwhelming medical consensus of the time. The disease being waterborne was first proposed by John Snow[[note]][[NamesTheSame no, not]] ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Jon]]'' [[Series/GameOfThrones Snow]][[/note]] in 1854, and his view was extremely controversial for a while. The game, however, acts like it's already an established fact that cholera is waterborne. Also, bloodletting was a be-all-end-all treatment during the period in which the game takes place, but it's never offered as an option or even mentioned.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Inverted, actually, in ''Oregon Trail II'' and its sequels. While you're limited to nineteenth-century medicines, the medical advice from your guidebook and other characters is unrealistically accurate for the period. For example, cholera being airborne was the overwhelming medical consensus of the time. The disease being waterborne was first proposed by John Snow[[note]]no, not ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Jon]]'' [[Series/GameOfThrones Snow]][[/note]] in 1854, and his view was extremely controversial for a while. The game, however, acts like it's already an established fact that cholera is waterborne. Also, bloodletting was a be-all-end-all treatment during the period in which the game takes place, but it's never offered as an option or even mentioned.

* BeamMeUpScotty: The line "You have died of dysentery" never literally appears in the original version of ''The Oregon Trail''. The actual phrasing uses the third-person voice: "[[HelloInsertNameHere [Character name the player entered]]] has died of dysentery."