http://macintoshgarden.org/taxonomy/term/302/0 en http://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-oregon-trail <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_screenshot" width="500" height="334" title="The Oregon Trail in color." alt="Game screenshot" src="http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/screenshots/2468146085_b65427becd.jpg?1239204328" /><p>The Oregon Trail is an educational computer game developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by MECC in 1974. The game was inspired by the real-life Oregon Trail and was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley by way of the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848.</p> <blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="http://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-oregon-trail" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://macintoshgarden.org/games/the-oregon-trail#comments Educational Simulation 1992 Point & Click Bill Heinemann Don Rawitsch MECC Paul Dillenberger Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:44:08 +0000 Mattscott251 13 at http://macintoshgarden.org