History VideoGame / TheAmazonTrail

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: While the correct solution to the Lope de Aguirre dilemma is give him a few disposable items (like fish) and a plant that will either cause insanity or voniting, you are actually given the option to tell him the truth and say "It makes you throw up" or "It makes you crazy". Granted, you just ''know'' that most players [[SchmuckBait picked the "It's like candy" option]] anyway...

** Later on you also have to trade with someone who says she doesn't have anything to offer. The correct and ButThouMust solution is to give her a map since it will help her find what she's looking for.

* UpdatedRerelease: There are two sequels, ''Amazon Trail II'' and ''Amazon Trail 3rd Edition: Rainforest Adventures''. According to TheOtherWiki, the third game is basically the same as the second with updated graphics and fixed {{Game Breaking Bug}}s.

* AnAesop: Comes with every token you earn for your convenience.
* AnachronismStew: Assuming that when you return to the river, you continue in the same time period to which the blue mist took you, the game has a MisplacedVegetation issue. Bananas are an Old World fruit introduced to the Americas by the Columbian Exchange. You should not be encountering them while you're deep in the Amazon during the sixteenth century.

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* EdutainmentGame

* EvilIsHammy: Lope de Aguirre, appropriately enough. ("Trade?! I do not trade! I TAKE!")
** The first game doesn't use the FullMotionVideo of the sequels, but Aguirre ''still'' comes across as incredibly hammy.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The pirarucu looks like any other fish in the first game, but the guide tells you how huge it supposedly is. In the sequels... well, see LostForever.

* LostForever: You can catch a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirarucu pirarucu]], a fish that's as long as a bus. It only swims by once, but it takes up half the screen and if you don't catch it, that's your problem.

** If you tell him the truth, the jaguar scolds you. If you trick him into consuming it, the jaguar tells you, "There are evil people in this world. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo You did what had to be done.]]" That's right, the game ''encourages'' you to trick the conquistador into throwing up.

* TimeTravel: Throw in a lost TheodoreRoosevelt, Henry Ford, a wily pirarucu, some hunger-crazed pirates, and a greedy oil tycoon throughout several centuries...

** When you find TheodoreRoosevelt, he is sick and injured - you can either give him a medkit or one of the herbs the medicine man gave you earlier.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C%C3%A9sar_Arana Julio Arana]] will actually [[CardCarryingVillain boast about what a horrible piece of shit he is]]. He offers to send you on a mission to round up some more "[[FreudianSlip slaves, er, workers]]" for him. You're supposed to accept the mission in order to find the natives and then warn them to stay away from Arana.

!!Tropes found ''The Amazon Trail'':

* UpdatedRerelease: There are two sequels, ''Amazon Trail II'' and ''Amazon Trail 3rd Edition: Rainforest Adventures''. According to TheOtherWiki, the third game is basically the same as the second with updated graphics and fixed GameBreakingBugs.

!Tropes Used By ''The Amazon Trail'':

* AnachronismStew: Assuming that when you return to the river, you continue on in the same time period which the blue mist took you to, the game has a MisplacedVegetation issue. Bananas are an Old World fruit introduced to the Americas by the Columbian Exchange. You should not be encountering them while you're deep in the Amazon during the sixteenth century.
* ButThouMust: In some versions, if you don't help the locals in their quest, the Jaguar will scold you, you won't earn your badge and you'll be started over on that leg of the journey.

''The Amazon Trail'' is a rather strange computer spinoff of ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail''. Your job is to paddle a canoe up the Amazon River to the lost city of Vilcabamba on the behest of a jaguar spirit, stopping at various places along the river on the way while [[TimeTravel traveling through time]]. In the first game, your job is to deliver medicine to the Incas hiding there, collecting the things the jaguar tells you to; in the sequels, your basic concept is to collect tokens on a medallion by doing the tasks the jaguar gives you. In between, you take hundreds of photographs of local wildlife. It's about as weird as it sounds, although still pretty enjoyable. Although the fishing just isn't as fun as [[VideoGame/TheOregonTrail gunning down buffalo]].

* EvilIsHammy: Lope de Aguirre, appropriately enough ("Trade?! I do not trade! I TAKE!")

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Sure, it might be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential a tad cruel]] to trick that conquistador into consuming your medicine that induces uncontrolled vomiting (or better, insanity)...but come on, dude's a conquistador and a psychopath even by conquistador standards, and he steals whatever you try to trade him, besides. Furthermore, the jaguar will approve of your methods if you do that.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: While the correct solution to the Lope de Aguirre dilemma is give him a few disposable items (like fish) and a plant that will either cause insanity or voniting, you are actually given the option to tell him the truth and say "It makes you throw up" or "it makes you crazy". Granted, you just ''know'' that most players [[SchmuckBait picked the "It's like candy" option]] anyways...

* GetOnWithItAlready: To earn a token, you have to listen to a shaman tell a long-winded story about a ''tapir'' that you can't exit from which takes like 10 minutes to end.

* GreyAndGreyMorality: One stop deals with a real-life issues - an oil company versus a local. The idea behind this detour is to realize that BothSidesHaveAPoint and that there is no "right" or "wrong" in this case. (Granted, the arguments given are somewhat stacked in favor of the anti-oil side, but they don't explicitly come out and say which side is right.)

* GreyAndGreyMorality: One stop deals with a real life - an oil company versus a local. The idea behind this detour is to realize that BothSidesHaveAPoint and that there is no "Right" or "wrong" in this case.

** Averted in one case - you run into a person who doesn't know what year it is (She is a native unfamiliar with the Gregorian calendar).

** Averted in one case - you run into a person who doesn't know what year it is (She is a native unfamiliar with the gregorian calendar).

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sure, it might be [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential a tad cruel]] to trick that conquistador into consuming your medicine that induces uncontrolled vomiting (or better, insanity)...but come on, dude's a conquistador, and he steals whatever you try to trade him, besides.
** ''[[WhatTheHellHero You have to give him your sickness-inducing medicine if you want]] OneHundredPercentCompletion.'' (Or even to stop talking with him once you start.)
** On the contrary, players who are familiar with the history of the conquest of the Americas [[PayEvilUntoEvil will have less of a hard time with the moral dissonance.]]
-->''"So long, sucker!!"''
** Especially since said conquistador is explicitly identified as Lope de Aguirre, who in real life (as well as in [[Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod a famous movie]]) was an evil, brutal madman even by conquistador standards.

''The Amazon Trail'' is a rather strange computer spinoff of ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail''. Your basic concept is to collect tokens on a medallion by doing tasks told to you by a jaguar spirit while [[TimeTravel traveling through time]]. In between, you take hundreds of photographs of local wildlife. It's about as weird as it sounds, although still pretty enjoyable. Although the fishing just isn't as fun as [[VideoGame/TheOregonTrail gunning down buffalo]].

* ButThouMust: If you don't help the locals in their quest, the Jaguar will scold you, you won't earn your badge and you'll be started over on that leg of the journey.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Averted somewhat suprisingly considering it's made by the makers of ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail''. It's really hard to die in this game.

* {{Freemium}}: A free trial version, with fewer options (for example, only two choices of guide instead of four), was released on CD-ROM and distributed with certain packages of breakfast cereal.

* GreenAesop: The driving force behind the whole game.

** ''[[WhatTheHellHero You have to give him your sickness-inducing medicine if you want]] OneHundredPercentCompletion.''

* TheSlacker: If you choose one of the guides for your journey "You can fish, I think I'll just take a nap".
** Some versions had four guides, one of which was te one who would take a nap though.

* TheSlacker: If you choose the guide who's a man for your journey "You can fish, I think I'll just take a nap".