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Title: It was awesome when I was a kid, so why should it change?
Review: I also got my first copy of this game from a cereal box. I figured it was going to be similar to Oregon Trail. It was, or at least as similar as exploring the Amazon River can be to traversing North America.Anyway, it was fun, challenging, and educational, which for a cereal box game is a pretty tall order.The replay value isn't particularly high, since the "native interaction" scenes are fairly static, and the river is the same size and shape no matter how many times you travel it. But be careful not to starve or die of any of the dozens of exotic diseases, or else you WILL be replaying it--several times. And for goodness' sake, try very hard not to hit the riverbanks.The graphics were cool for their time. Now they're fake-looking...but who cares? The gameplay is what's important. And that's still good.
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