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The Oregon Trail is a text-based strategy video game in which the player, as the leader of a wagon train, controls a group journeying down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon in 1847. The player purchases supplies, then plays through approximately twelve rounds of decision making, each representing two weeks on ...
The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy 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 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.
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 Oregon Trail has been described in Serious Games and Edutainment Applications as "one of the most famous ancestors" of the serious game subgenre. [26] The Oregon Trail was a hallmark in American elementary schools in the 1980s and 1990s. [27] [28] Smithsonian magazine observed in 2016 that "The Oregon Trail is still a cultural landmark for ...
The winery's first Pinot noir was produced in 1973. [3] Chardonnay and Riesling were introduced in 1975 and Pinot gris was first produced in 1990. [3] Oak Knoll was the first winery in Washington County to open a tasting room. [5] By 1986, the winery was the second-largest by volume sold in Oregon, [6] but slipped to third by 1988. [7]
Matt Kramer of The Oregonian considers King Estate the benchmark producer of Pinot gris in the country. [2] While the winery also makes Pinot noir and limited amounts of Chardonnay, it is mainly credited with bringing the Pinot gris grape varietal into national consciousness. [3] The winery was founded in 1991 by Ed King Jr. and his son, Ed ...
David Lett, owner-winemaker at The Eyrie Vineyards in Oregon with a bottle of the 1975 Eyrie Vineyards South Block Reserve—the bottle that put Oregon on the world's Pinot noir map. David Lett (1939 – October 9, 2008) was the founder and winemaker for The Eyrie Vineyards in the U.S. state of Oregon. He was a pioneer in the Oregon wine ...