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 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 party of settlers fromIndependence, Missouri, to Oregon’s Willamette Valley over the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848. The game has been released in many editions since the original release by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to the game.

5 Comments to The Oregon Trail

1. 

   Oh man! I remember this game when we used to play it at work. It was played on an Apple IIe and I had to boot it up from a disc. What a trip, haven’t seen or heard of this game for years (yeah you guessed it I’m in my late 50′s) and just forgot about it. Hard to believe it’s still around in some shape or form.
Mark the Shark on April 7th, 2011
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   I remember playing this game and Swashbuckler and my friends Apple II
MOE DIRT on April 8th, 2011
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   lol We’d play this in class all the time and didn’t get caught. It was addicting!
Kendall on April 25th, 2011
4. 

   I absoutly loved playing this game when I was in Elementary School.
Dawn on June 22nd, 2011
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   Oh god memories of hours in the library, managing to kill everyone off one way or another.
Apooh on November 28th, 2011

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