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.
IGDB / 11325
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 Indepen Show full summary
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.
World design
Linear
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GameplayExploration
GenreAdventure
GenreSimulator
GenreStrategy
ThemeEducational
ThemeHistorical
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Traitbased on - book
Traitcharacter select screen
Traitdeath
Traitdisease
Traitedutainment
Traitexploration
Traithigh score
Traithorse
Traithunting
Traitlinear gameplay
Traitmanagement
Traitmeme origin
Traitmerchants
Traitpixel art
Traitrandom encounter
Traitrealism
Traitshopping
Traitwestern
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The Oregon Trail: release, platforms, and facts
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Studios & ownership
Studio & publishing
- Developer
- MECC
- Publisher
- Nicht angegeben
- Franchise
- Standalone
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Spielprofil
- Modi
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Themes
- Educational, Historical
Wo & wann
Platform releases
- CDC Cyber 70 1974
- HP 2100 Dec 03, 1971
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