Westward Ho! is a 1986 educational game based on the well-known 1970s game The Oregon Trail.
The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley over the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848.
The first version of The Oregon Trail was written in 1971 and it was first published in the July-August 1978 issue of Creative Computing. In 1986, David H. Ahl created Westward Ho! for his book BASIC Computer Adventures.
Screenshots
Title screen
Introduction
On our way…
Hunting for food
Buying more medicine at a nearby fort
Whoops, we've run out of medicine and died!
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Links
- Atari Archives: Westward Ho!
- Westward Ho! at the English-language Wikipedia