Rating: 81.8%

Platforms: HP 2100 and CDC Cyber 70

Genres: Simulator, Strategy and Adventure

Themes: Historical and Educational

Keywords: western, hunting, exploration, disease, death, horse, management, edutainment, based on - book, pixel art, high score, character select screen, shopping, realism, merchants, linear gameplay, meme origin and random encounter

Perspective: Text

Developer: MECC

The Oregon Trail

Summary:

The Oregon Trail is a computer game 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 school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in 1848.

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