The Oregon Trail

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.

Normal

1 h

Released

1971 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player

Perspective

Text

• MMECCDeveloper

• Educational
• Historical
• based on - book
• character select screen
• death
• disease
• edutainment
• exploration
• high score
• horse
• hunting
• linear gameplay
• management
• meme origin

1. This gameThe Oregon Trail1971
2. Oregon1980 · Remake
3. The Oregon Trail1985 · Remake
4. The Oregon Trail: Classic Edition1990
5. The Oregon Trail1990 · Remake
6. The Oregon Trail Deluxe1992 · Remake
7. Oregon Trail II1995
8. Africa Trail1995
9. The Oregon Trail: 3rd Edition1997
10. The Oregon Trail: 4th Edition1999
11. The Oregon Trail: 5th Edition2001 · Remake
12. The Oregon Trail2009

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