Goal	Status
🏆 Finished game	✅
💯 Completionist	✅
📋 High Score	>7000
📺 Video	❌

Bonus Goals

Goal	Status
📋 Top Score	✅
👩‍🌾 Farmer Victory	✅

Review

Like Word Munchers, this is a pretty bad game that has an outsized role in my imagination, because it was a game I got to play in school, and any video game is better than anything else that could be happening in school. This game mostly plays itself. There are only a handful of meaningful decisions to make, and success or failure mostly comes down to random chance. I don't feel like it was very educational, because I never played it as part of a bigger lesson about northwest expansion in the US and didn't have the context to understand why it was important. This goes without saying for a children's game from 1985, but it completely whitewashes the settler colonialism that's occurring and doesn't seem concerned with the genocide of the indigenous population. I don't expect the game to talk about these things, but the total absence of context makes playing it today kind of uncomfortable.

Score

❤️🖤🖤🖤🖤

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