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  2. The Oregon Trail (series) - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Trail is a series of educational computer games. The first game was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach eighth grade schoolchildren about the realities of 19th-century ...

  3. Freedom! (video game) - Wikipedia

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    1992. Genre (s) Edutainment, simulation. Freedom! is a 1992 educational video game for the Apple II developed and published by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). Based on similar gameplay from MECC's earlier The Oregon Trail, the player assumes the role of a runaway slave in the antebellum period of American history who is ...

  4. The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player. 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 ...

  5. The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Trail is an educational strategy video game developed and published by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). It was first released in 1985 for the Apple II, with later ports to MS-DOS in 1990, Mac in 1991, and Microsoft Windows in 1993. It was created as a re-imagining of the popular text-based game of the same name ...

  6. MECC - Wikipedia

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    Website. mecc.com (Archive) The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973 best known for developing the edutainment video game series The Oregon Trail and its spinoffs. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to schools in ...

  7. Amazon Trail II - Wikipedia

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    Single-player. Amazon Trail II is a simulation video game developed by The Adventure Company and published by MECC for the Macintosh and Windows. [3] It was released in September 1996. [4] The game is a spin-off of The Oregon Trail. It is the second video game in the Amazon Trail video game series, succeeding The Amazon Trail and preceding ...

  8. MayaQuest: The Mystery Trail - Wikipedia

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    Single-player. MayaQuest: The Mystery Trail (also known as "MayaQuest Trail") is an educational computer game created by MECC and inspired by the actual MayaQuest Expedition. [1] It is a spin-off title of The Oregon Trail series, featuring cities of the Classical Mayan civilization. While travelling across the lands by bicycle, the player ...

  9. The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition - Wikipedia

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    Release. November 1997 [1] Genre (s) Edutainment. Mode (s) Single-player. 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]