The Oregon Trail

released on Dec 03, 1971
by MECC

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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The Oregon Trail 1971 || Pc

1-interacción: 5
2-mundo/apartado artístico: 6.8
3-concepto: 7.5
4-puesta en escena: 7
5-narración: 4
6-sonido/apartado sonoro: 4
7-jugabilidad: -
8-historia: 7
9-duración/ritmo: 4
10-impacto: 7

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A landmark of American video games, and also of white supremacy. While the gameplay is fun, by removing the natives from the story of the West entirely, it reduces an entire peoples to a footnote.

I was absolute dog buns at this game but damn did it slingshot an entire lifetime of games being made. I recognize its' icon status for sure. I think living in oregon is just like that.