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The Oregon Trail Series

The Oregon Trail

Main Game
Simulator Strategy Adventure Historical Educational

The Oregon Trail is a Simulator / Strategy game released on December 3, 1971 for HP 2100, CDC Cyber 70. 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. T…

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29 ratings
December 3, 1971
Released 19933 days ago
HP 2100 CDC Cyber 70

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.

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Release Dates by Platform

HP 2100 Worldwide
Dec 3, 1971
CDC Cyber 70 Worldwide
Dec 31, 1974

Game Info

Developer
MECC
Game Modes
Single player
Perspective
Text
Genres
Simulator Strategy Adventure
Themes
Historical Educational

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