If you're someone who thought Little House On The Prairie or Oregon Trail were accurate depictions of settler living...you're half right! A lot of the stuff you saw was true! They just left out all the rampant sex, brutality, and gruesome accidents due to settlers who had never wandered farther than a couple miles from home. Luckily Vox fills us in on some of the more gruesome history with the R Rated version of The Oregon Trail.
The Oregon Trail was a great game - but there were some things they couldn't teach kids. This is the bloody, sexy, drunken trail. For more about the sources, read the full article: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/3/11152436/r-rated-oregon-trail We all loved The Oregon Trail as kids - and the gameplay was pretty accurate.
