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'''''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.
David H. Ahl created ''Westward Ho!'' for the July-August 1978 issue of ''Creative Computing''. In 1986, he also published it in his book ''BASIC Computer Adventures''.
==Screenshots==
<gallery widths="384px" heights="270px">
File:Wh_title.png|Title screen
File:Wh_intro.png|Introduction
File:Wh_trip.png|On our way…
File:Wh_hunt.png|Hunting for food
File:Wh_buy.png|Buying more medicine at a nearby fort
File:Wh_dead.png|Whoops, we've run out of medicine and died!
</gallery>
==Download==
*[[media:Westward_ho.zip|DSK image]]
Start with: <pre>run"disc</pre>
==Links==
* [http://www.atariarchives.org/bca/Chapter02_WestwardHo.php Atari Archives: Westward Ho!]
*{{EnWiki|The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game)}}
[[Category:Games]]
[[Category:Simulation]]
[[Category:Locomotive BASIC games]]
[[Category:Educational]]
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.
David H. Ahl created ''Westward Ho!'' for the July-August 1978 issue of ''Creative Computing''. In 1986, he also published it in his book ''BASIC Computer Adventures''.
==Screenshots==
<gallery widths="384px" heights="270px">
File:Wh_title.png|Title screen
File:Wh_intro.png|Introduction
File:Wh_trip.png|On our way…
File:Wh_hunt.png|Hunting for food
File:Wh_buy.png|Buying more medicine at a nearby fort
File:Wh_dead.png|Whoops, we've run out of medicine and died!
</gallery>
==Download==
*[[media:Westward_ho.zip|DSK image]]
Start with: <pre>run"disc</pre>
==Links==
* [http://www.atariarchives.org/bca/Chapter02_WestwardHo.php Atari Archives: Westward Ho!]
*{{EnWiki|The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game)}}
[[Category:Games]]
[[Category:Simulation]]
[[Category:Locomotive BASIC games]]
[[Category:Educational]]
