Next the player purchases two tickets for a ship to Skagway or Dyea. Each partner has unique advantages over the others. The player must first choose one out of four partners. The game starts in Seattle in August 1897 (right before the actual Klondike Gold Rush). Gameplay Screenshot of conversation with Jack London. The game features the famous author Jack London and authentic 19th-century photographs that show what life was like back then. Players start out in Seattle and must make decisions concerning supplies, a partner, and travel plans as they head to Alaska before boating down a river to Dawson City and staking a claim to mine for gold. The Yukon Trail is a 1994 educational computer game from the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), similar to their previous Oregon Trail series but set during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 19th century.
