1971 · Current Era
The Oregon Trail
MECC · Adventure · Strategy · Simulator
Overview
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.
Releases
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HP 2100
03 dic 1971 Original
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CDC Cyber 70
31 dic 1974
Screenshots
Developed by
1971 — A year in gaming
Il catalogo di quell’anno, distinto dalla pagina editoriale su Generazioni.
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2020–oggi
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Game data
- Original title
- The Oregon Trail
- Developer
- MECC
- First release
- 03 dicembre 1971
- Genres
- Adventure · Strategy · Simulator
- Era
- Current Era