The Oregon Trail (computer game)
| The Oregon Trail | |
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DOS Cover art
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| Developer(s) | MECC |
| Publisher(s) |
Brøderbund The Learning Company Gameloft |
| Platform(s) | Android, Apple II, Atari 8-Bit, iOS, Macintosh, BlackBerry, Commodore 64, DOS, Facebook, Java ME, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Windows, Mobile, Phone 7 ,TI-99/4a, ColecoVision |
| Release | December 3, 1971 |
| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) |
single-player video game 
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| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 66/100 (iOS) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| AllGame |    |
| GameSpot | 3/10 (Wii) |
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 a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley via a covered wagon in 1848.
The game is the first entry in the Oregon Trail series, and has since been released in many editions by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to it, as well as inspiring a number of spinoffs (such as The Yukon Trail and The Amazon Trail) and the parody/homage The Organ Trail.
The game includes several landmarks along the trail where players can make decisions, shop for supplies or rest. These landmarks include: Kansas River, Big Blue River, Fort Kearney, Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie, Independence Rock, South Pass, Fort Bridger, Green River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Snake River, Fort Boise, Grande Ronde Valley in the Blue Mountains, Fort Walla Walla, and The Dalles. When approaching Oregon's Willamette Valley, travelers can either float a raft through the Columbia River Gorge or take the Barlow Road.
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