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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 ...
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 ...
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 held a special place in the hearts of many since it debuted its iconic mix of history, addictive gameplay and dysentery in the 1970s.
The Sumerian Game: 1964: Mabel Addis, William McKay: The first edutainment game. Unnamed American football game [1] 1968 or before: Unknown: For the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. One of "many games" in library of 500 programs. The Sumer Game: 1968: Doug Dyment: AKA Hamurabi: Highnoon: 1970: Christopher Gaylo: Baseball: 1971: Don Daglow: Oregon ...
In 1983, the founders of Broderbund Software, Gary and Doug Carlston, publicly discussed a plan to make edutainment one of their company's three focus areas. [2] The character of Carmen Sandiego was developed by David Siefkin, who drafted the first script of the game for Broderbund beside the Strawberry Canyon swimming pool of the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
Welcome back to Facebook Game Faceoff, where we pit two similar Facebook games against one another in a battle royale, decided by you, the players. This week, we have The Oregon Trail, Blue Fang ...
Release. April 1, 2001 (Riverdeep, Inc.) 2005? (Selectsoft) Genre (s) Educational. Mode (s) Single-player. The Oregon Trail 5th Edition: Adventures Along the Oregon Trail is a 2001 video game, and the sequel to The Oregon Trail 4th Edition.