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By the mid-1980s, MECC was selling their educational software to schools around the country, and The Oregon Trail was their most popular product by far. [16] In 1985, MECC produced a fully-graphical version of the game for Apple II computers, redesigned by R. Philip Bouchard as a greatly expanded product for home consumers under the same name. [1]
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.
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.
/ Credit: MECC. Now more than 50 years after the first "Oregon Trail" program, Apple is reportedly developing the game into an action-comedy movie.
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]
Although MECC continued to develop software after its acquisition, including the successful Oregon Trail II in 1995, Softkey (then named The Learning Company) was acquired by Mattel in 1999 in what Businessweek called one of "the Worst Deals of All Time", [20] leading to the a great deal of financial repercussions that year including closing ...
Sep. 20—MYSTIC — A kidney donor riding his bike 1,600 miles from Massachusetts to Wisconsin to raise donor awareness, a trip he calls the "Organ Trail," rode through southeastern Connecticut ...
Pages in category "MECC games" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) ...