So. You went and did it. You ignored my review of The Oregon Trail Card Game (or more likely didn’t know it existed) and shelled out your hard earned cash for this card game. That’s thirteen bucks that could have been used on more worthwhile pursuits: lighting it on fire and keeping your toes warm, folding the bills into mini paper airplanes, or buying thirteen dollars worth of grass seed, planting it, and watching it grow. You did it, and now you have to live with it: sitting on your game shelf or burning in your garbage can, you have to live with that game. No amount of grass watching will erase that. But does that mean that you have to live with a terrible game? Well, yes unfortunately. But what you can do, with some simple modifications, is live with a better game than you purchased. Here’s how.

I loved playing the Oregon Trail computer game as a kid in elementary school. You were subjected to terrible tortures, rudimentary medicine, and horrendous culinary options. Oh, those things were also present in the Oregon Trail computer game. It was without a doubt one of the more entertaining, if frustratingly difficult, aspects of my elementary education. So it was with no small amount of nostalgic joy that I greeted the recently released The Oregon Trail Card Game by Pressman Toy Corporation. Would my hopes be achieved, as so seldom happened in my computer Oregon Trail endeavors, or would my hopes be crapped upon the ground, much like most of my hapless pioneers dying of dysentery on the digital Oregon Trail? Let’s find out.