The Oregon Trail (1971)

MECC

CDC Cyber 70 · HP 2100

3.52 from 331 ratings

597 members have it in their collection · 3 playing now · 26 backlogged · 43 wish listed

How long? Main story 2h · 100% 1h (from 4 logged playthroughs)

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 … Read more
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. Read less
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Details

Developers
MECC
Genres
Adventure, Simulator, Strategy
Themes
Educational, Historical
Series
The Oregon Trail

Release dates

  • Dec 03, 1971 (North_America) HP 2100
  • 1974 (North_America) CDC Cyber 70

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5 stars
43
4 stars
125
3 stars
130
2 stars
27
1 star
6
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Status scoopings Oct 27, 2021

the different versions have quite considerably different gameplay. i've been doing some reading before starting this and it seems the earliest version had text-only for, say, the hunting parts, as opposed to the graphic version of hunting. tough to find the original version, even the visitoregon website has the one of the later graphic versions