| The Oregon Trail | |
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| Genre(s) | Edutainment |
| Developer(s) | MECC |
| Publisher(s) | Broderbund The Learning Company Gameloft |
| Creator(s) | Don Rawitsch Bill Heinemann Paul Dillenberger |
| First release | The Oregon Trail December 3, 1971 |
| Latest release | The Oregon Trail April 2, 2021 |
| Spin-offs | The Amazon Trail The Yukon Trail MayaQuest: The Mystery Trail Africa Trail |
The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy computer games. The first game was 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 eighth grade schoolchildren about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley via a covered wagon in 1848.