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By 1995, The Oregon Trail generated about one-third of MECC's $30 million in annual revenue. [9] An updated version, Oregon Trail Deluxe , was released for DOS and Macintosh in 1992, as well as Windows in 1993 (under the title of simply The Oregon Trail Version 1.2) [ 10 ] followed by Oregon Trail II in 1995, [ 3 ] The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition ...
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 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 life on the Oregon Trail.
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 ...
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) ...
[2] [11] MECC distributed The Oregon Trail and others in its library to Minnesota schools for free, and charged others $10 to $20 for diskettes, each containing several programs. [6] By July 1981 it had 29 software packages available. Projector slides, student worksheets, and other resources for teachers accompanied the software. [15]
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]
Oregon Trail II gameplay. Oregon Trail II 's graphics are considerably more detailed than those in the original. In addition, events such as diseases (including dysentery, measles, cholera, and others), obstacles on the path, accidents while traveling, and even interactions with other groups in one's wagon train involve being directed to choose a course of action from a set of multiple choices.