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The Oregon Trail

Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure

Released on: HP 2100, CDC Cyber 70

Developer: MECC

Themes: Historical, Educational

Game Modes: Single player

Perspective: Text

Platform Release Dates:
Platform Release Date
HP 2100 December 03, 1971
CDC Cyber 70 December 31, 1974

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About:

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.

Story:

No storyline available