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for the classroom, hired Rawitsch. He retyped the game from a printout of the 1971 BASIC code into the organization's time-sharing network. Then, he modified the frequency and details of the random events that occurred in the game, to more accurately reflect the accounts he had read in the historical
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guns at college students wearing wigs and cloth antlers, while carrying 200 pounds (91 kg) of meat became pulling a 200-pound man up a hill in a child's red wagon while he recited historical meat facts and pointed out choice cuts. Independence, Missouri, was at one end of the grounds, and the
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The original core gameplay concepts that have been included in every subsequent version are initial supply purchase, occasional food hunting, occasional supply purchase at forts, inventory management of supplies, variable travel speed depending upon conditions, frequent misfortunes, and game over
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attempts to "better depict Native American perspectives" and to acknowledge that for Indigenous peoples colonization "was not an adventure but an invasion." Newer versions of the game offer new Native American characters and storylines.
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In 2018, a handheld electronic version of the game was produced by the company Basic Fun. This battery-powered version featured a small TV monitor that replicated the look and sounds of one of the older PC/Apple versions of the game.
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under the same title, with substantially improved graphics and expanded gameplay, in 1985. The new version was also updated to more accurately reflect the real Oregon Trail, incorporating notable geographic landmarks as well as human
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created Oregon Trail Live as a live-action event. Teams competed through ten challenges on the grounds of the WHC. Challenges were based loosely on the game: hunting for game was done by shooting
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The game was popular among American elementary school students from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, as many computers came bundled with the game. MECC followed up on the success of
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minicomputer to write a computer program to help teach the subject. Rawitsch recruited two friends and fellow student teachers, Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, to help.
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and paper tape terminals that predate display screens were awkward to children, the game was immediately popular, and he made it available to users of the minicomputer
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The cell phone version of the game is similar to the original, but varies in that the player can choose one of three different wagons: a basic wagon, a
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available to all the schools on the timeshare network. The game became one of the network's most popular programs, with thousands of players monthly.
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was released by the Men Who Wear Many Hats for browsers, iOS, and Android, with the setting changed to human survivors fleeing a zombie apocalypse.
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closed. A new version of the game was also released for the Wii and 3DS that year, and received a negative critical response.
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creative director Jarrad Trudgen, a white Australian, consulted with several Indigenous scholars in an attempt to remove
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diaries of people who had traveled the trail. In 1975, when his updates were finished, he made the game titled
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was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the
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Facebook Oregon Trail Application: Social Networking Website's Version of the Original Educational Game
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Willamette Valley was at the other end. The WHC received the 2014 Outstanding Educator Award from the
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critics have viewed the game as culturally insensitive or racist. The 2021 version of the game for
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generated about one-third of MECC's $ 30 million in annual revenue. An updated version,
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was adapted in June 1978 by J.P. O'Malley. The game was further released as part of MECC's
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MECC (Port of Oregon Trail Deluxe 1992, First Game in the 1990s Oregon Trail Subseries)
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microcomputer. John Cook adapted the game for the Apple II, and it appeared on
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in 1997, and 4th and 5th editions. As of 2011, more than 65 million copies of
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s May–June 1978 issue. That year, MECC began encouraging schools to adopt the
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Because the theme of the game is the colonization of the American West, some
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debuted to Rawitsch's class on December 3, 1971. Although the minicomputer's
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created an updated version for cell phones. A new release for the
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In February 2011, a new version of the game was released on the
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version was released to the Palm App Catalog on January 7, and
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The Oregon Trail: 3rd Edition for Windows (1997) – MobyGames
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was also available from Gameloft. The game went live in the
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site Facebook. This version was removed from Facebook when
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Games in the series were released with varying titles.
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Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger
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Edutainment
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MECC
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Brøderbund
The Learning Company
Gameloft
The Oregon Trail
Spin-offs
The Amazon Trail
The Yukon Trail
MayaQuest: The Mystery Trail
Africa Trail
The first game
Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
Oregon Trail
wagon
Independence, Missouri
Oregon
Willamette Valley
Carleton College
Northfield, Minnesota
HP Time-Shared BASIC
HP 2100
teletype
time-sharing
Minneapolis Public Schools
source code

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