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…
The Oregon Trail is an adventure developed by MECC, released 3 December 1971 on CDC Cyber 70 and HP 2100. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What The Oregon Trail is
The Oregon Trail is an adventure game developed by MECC and released in 1971. It is available on CDC Cyber 70 and HP 2100.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are educational and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
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Quick answers
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