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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 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 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 ...
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 held a special place in the hearts of many since it debuted its iconic mix of history, addictive gameplay and dysentery in the 1970s.
Blue Fang Games made two critical hits (but commercial flops) on Facebook, The Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego, before it shut down this summer. The Boston, Mass.-based developers known for PC ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) The Oregon Trail ...
Just about everyone who attended grade school in either the '80s or '90s remembers the infamous phrase, "You died of dysentery." In fact, this has become an Internet meme over the years and ...