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The original game was designed to teach eighth grade schoolchildren about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri , to Oregon 's Willamette Valley via a covered wagon in 1848.
The multiple versions of The Oregon Trail are often combined when discussing the game's legacy, though the 1985 release is considered the main version; Colin Campbell of Polygon, for example, has described it collectively as one of the most successful games of all time and a cultural icon, but said that the 1985 version "is the one most people ...
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror thriller film [1] directed by Jeannot Szwarc and co-written by Carl Gottlieb.It is the sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), and the second installment in the Jaws franchise.
Oregon Trail II gameplay. Oregon Trail II ' s graphics are considerably more detailed than those in the original. In addition, events such as diseases (including dysentery, measles, cholera, and others), obstacles on the path, accidents while traveling, and even interactions with other groups in one's wagon train involve being directed to choose a course of action from a set of multiple choices.
NORTHFIELD, Minn. — "The Oregon Trail," one of the most successful computer games of all time and a staple for children of the '80s and '90s, is currently being developed into a movie project.
The final domestic gross for Jaws 2 was $102,922,376, making it the sixth highest domestic grossing film of 1978. [72] Jaws 2 grossed $208 million worldwide. Jaws 3-D grossed $13,422,500 on its opening weekend, [73] playing at 1,311 theaters at its widest release. It had achieved a total lifetime worldwide gross of $87,987,055. [74]
The Oregon Trail is a text-based strategy video game developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) beginning in 1975. It was developed as a computer game to teach school children about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail.
The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition (full title: The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition: Pioneer Adventures) is the second sequel to the 1985 edutainment video game The Oregon Trail after Oregon Trail II. It was developed by MECC and released in 1997. [2]