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This is Oregon Trail Game History have fun checking out the best game.īut did you know that the 1985 version isn’t the original one? We’re going to take you through a trip down memory lane and explore the origins of this beloved video game classic. In 1971, three seniors from Carleton College came up with the core concept for what would be one of the most successful educational computer games for decades to come. The trio of Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberg was about to start their work as student teachers. Rawitsch was tasked to teach American history to 8th graders and wanted to come up with a way to make the class more interesting rather than go with the usual chalk talk lecture. Rawitsch originally wanted to come up with a tabletop game for his class. But Dillenberger and Heinemann suggested a better idea – to develop the concept into a playable computer program. While none of them was an expert computer programmer, they were able to come up with the program in two weeks. The trio’s original 1971 version was played on a teletype computer (which means players just played a text game). The game became popular with students, coming in early and staying late at school just to play the game. For students at that time, not only was it their first time to play a computer game, but it was also their introduction to computers. When Rawitsch’s stint as a student teacher came to an end, Oregon Trail was almost lost forever because he deleted the program from the computer system. In 1974, he joined the Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium (MECC). He typed an updated version of the program into MECC’s computer system and became accessible via teletype throughout the state’s school districts.

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