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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.
The Oregon Trail is an educational 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 Willamette Valley, Oregon, in 1848. The player controls the game via a keyboard, primarily by selecting one of several numbered options.
In 2015, a 5k fun run held in Oregon City (the end of the route of the Oregon Trail) was modeled after the game with choice points along the route. [33] Also that year, Pressman Toy Corporation released The Oregon Trail card game based on the video game. [34] In 2018, a handheld electronic version of the game was produced by the company Basic Fun.
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.
Various points of the children's story are triggered when the player reaches a certain destination on the trail, which ranges from dangerous experiences (e.g., Jimmy is bitten by a snake) to campfire scenes in which Captain Jed would tell a story that reflects other historically accurate incidents (such as the Donner Party, the California Gold ...
This is a chronological list of party video games. The genre features a collection of minigames , designed to be intuitive and easy to control, and allow for competition between many players. Title
Pages in category "High school-themed video games" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The Trail to Oregon! Is a musical with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim, and book by Jeff Blim, Matt Lang, and Nick Lang (additional music by Drew De Four). [1] The musical parodies the video game series The Oregon Trail. The characters' names were picked from suggestions shouted from the audience, and at the end the audience chooses which ...