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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 game begins in Independence, Missouri in 1848, where the player selects two people to form a wagon party. The game ends if both of these partners abandon the player. When a town or landmark is reached, players have the ability to use full-motion video or 3D graphics to explore the location.
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.
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.
The game design is based on Oregon Trail II, but adds various new features to the game, such as the fishing and plant gathering features from the 3rd and 4th editions. Updated graphics have been provided for river crossings.
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.
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