Video game · 1971
The Oregon Trail
Released 3 December 1971 on HP 2100, CDC Cyber 70, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Mac and 2 more
- Developer
- Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
- Publisher
- Broderbund
- Made in
- Brooklyn Center, United States
- Genre
- Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
- Themes
- Historical, Educational
- Series
- The Oregon Trail
IGDB PLAYERS8230 ratings
About 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.
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| HP 2100 | 3 December 1971 |
|---|---|
| CDC Cyber 70 | 1974 |
| Apple II | later, date unknown |
| Atari 8-bit computers | later, date unknown |
| Commodore 64 | later, date unknown |
| Mac | later, date unknown |
| MS-DOS | later, date unknown |
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The Oregon Trail series
The Oregon Trail is game 1 of 9. All 9 in order ›
- The Oregon Trail 1971
- The Oregon Trail 1985
- The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition 1997
- The Oregon Trail 4th Edition 1999
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