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Game info:

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Game title:The Oregon Trail
Platform:MS-DOS
Author (released):MECC (1990)
Genre:Adventure, SimulatorMode:Single-player
Design:R. Philip Bouchard, Greg S. Johnson, Charolyn Kapplinger, ...
Music:Lon Koenig, Larry Phenow
Game manual: not available
Download:OregonTrail.zip

Game size:

359 kB
Recommended emulator:DOSBox
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

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. The game has been released in many editions by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to it, as well as inspiring a number of spinoffs and parodies.
The player can choose to be a banker from Boston, a carpenter from Ohio, or a farmer from Illinois. Each profile starts with a specified amount of money to spend at the supply store (the banker has the most, the farmer the least), before beginning their journey. After the player sets off from Independence, Missouri, there are several landmarks along the trail where players can make decisions, shop for supplies or rest. Players can purchase supplies such as oxen to pull the wagon, food to feed their party, clothing to keep their party warm, ammunition for hunting, and spare parts for the wagon. 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.
An important aspect of the game was the ability to hunt. Using guns and bullets bought over the course of play, players select the hunt option (#8) and hunt wild animals to add to their food reserves. In the original version, players controlled the wagon leader who could aim a rifle in one of eight directions and fire single shots at animals. In later versions, players hunted with a cross-hair controlled by the mouse or touchscreen. While the player can shoot as many wild games as they have bullets, only 100 pounds of meat can be carried back to the wagon at once in early versions of the game. In later versions, as long as there were at least two living members of the wagon party, 200 pounds could be carried back. Also in later versions, players could hunt in different environments (hunting during winter showing snow-covered grass, for example), and the over-hunting of animals would result in 'scarcity' that reduced the number of animals appearing later in the game. Some versions also allow the player to go fishing.
Throughout the course of the game, members of the player's party can fall ill and not rest, which causes further harm to the victim. The party can die from various causes and diseases, such as measles, snakebite, exhaustion, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery, as well as from drowning or accidental gunshot wounds. The player's oxen are also subject to injury and death.
At the conclusion of the journey, a player's score is determined in two stages. In the first stage, the program awards a 'raw' or the unscaled number of points for each remaining family member (weighted by party health), each remaining possession (weighted by type), and remaining cash on hand (one point per dollar). In the second stage, the program multiplies this raw score depending on the party's initial level of resources determined by the profession of the party's leader; for example, in the Apple II game, a banker starting with $1600 receives no bonus, the score of a carpenter starting with $800 is doubled, and the score of a farmer starting with $400 is tripled. The player's score is added to a high-score list.

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This ver­sion of The Oregon Trail was de­sig­ned for per­so­nal com­pu­ters with o­pe­ra­ting sys­tem MS-DOS (Mi­cro­soft Disk O­pe­ra­ting Sys­tem), which was o­pe­ra­ting sys­tem de­ve­lo­ped by Mi­cro­soft in 1981. It was the most wi­de­ly-used o­pe­ra­ting sys­tem in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS was sup­plied with most of the IBM com­pu­ters that pur­cha­sed a li­cen­se from Mi­cro­soft. Af­ter 1995, it was pu­s­hed out by a gra­phi­cal­ly mo­re ad­van­ced sys­tem - Win­dows and its de­ve­lop­ment was ce­a­sed in 2000. At the ti­me of its grea­test fa­me, se­ve­ral thou­sand ga­mes de­sig­ned spe­ci­fi­cal­ly for com­pu­ters with this sys­tem we­re cre­a­ted. To­day, its de­ve­lop­ment is no lon­ger con­ti­nue and for e­mu­la­tion the free DOSBox e­mu­la­tor is most of­ten used. Mo­re in­for­ma­ti­on about MS-DOS operating system can be found here.

Available online emulators:

5 different online emulators are available for The Oregon Trail. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game The Oregon Trail are summarized in the following table:

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Game walkthroughs, playthrougs, let's plays catalogue. 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 Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by 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 trail explodes with adventure as you face the rugged challenges and experience real-life events. Plus, The Oregon Trail 5th Edition introduces players to the Montgomery kids and trail guide Captain Jed, who are heading West from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, to meet Pa Montgomery. The Montgomery's story is brought to life.
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The Oregon Trail
Genre(s)Edutainment
Developer(s)MECC
Publisher(s)Brøderbund
The Learning Company
Gameloft
Creator(s)Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger
First releaseThe Oregon Trail
December 3, 1971
Latest releaseThe Oregon Trail
April 2, 2021
Spin-offsThe Amazon Trail
The Yukon Trail
MayaQuest: The Mystery Trail
Africa Trail

The Oregon Trail is a series of educational computer games. The first game was 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 8th grade 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.

History[edit]

In 1971, Don Rawitsch, a senior at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, taught an 8th grade history class as a student teacher.[1][2] He used HP Time-Shared BASIC running on a HP 2100 minicomputer to write a computer program to help teach the subject.[3] Rawitsch recruited two friends and fellow student teachers, Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, to help.[4]

These are the original core gameplay concepts which have endured in every subsequent version: 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 upon death or successfully reaching Oregon.[5]

The game that would be later named The Oregon Trail debuted to Rawitsch's class on December 3, 1971. Although the minicomputer's teletype 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 time-sharing network owned by Minneapolis Public Schools. When the next semester ended, Rawitsch printed out a copy of the source code and deleted it from the minicomputer.[5][4]

MECC[edit]

In 1974, the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), a state-funded organization that developed educational software for the classroom, hired Rawitsch. He uploaded the Oregon Trail game into the organization's time-sharing network by retyping it, copied from a printout of the 1971 BASIC code. 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 diaries of people who had traveled the trail. In 1975, when his updates were finished, he made the game titled OREGON 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.[5][4][6]

Rawitsch published the source code of The Oregon Trail, written in BASIC 3.1 for the CDC Cyber 70/73-26, in Creative Computing's May–June 1978 issue.[7] That year MECC began encouraging schools to adopt the Apple II microcomputer.[4] John Cook adapted the game for the Apple II, and it appeared on A.P.P.L.E.'s PDS Disk series No. 108. A further version called Oregon Trail 2 was adapted in June 1978 by J.P. O'Malley. The game was further released as part of MECC's Elementary series, on Elementary Volume 6 in 1980. The game was titled simply Oregon, and featured minimal graphics. It proved so popular that it was re-released as a standalone game, with substantially improved graphics, in 1985. The new version was also updated to more accurately reflect the real Oregon Trail, incorporating notable geographic landmarks as well as human characters with whom the player can interact.[8]

By 1995, The Oregon Trail comprised about one-third of MECC's $30 million in annual revenue.[9] An updated version, Oregon Trail Deluxe, was released for DOS and Macintosh in 1992, as well as Windows in 1993 (under the title of simply The Oregon Trail Version 1.2)[10] followed by Oregon Trail II in 1995,[4]The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition in 1997,[11] and 4th[12] and 5th editions.[13] As of 2011, more than 65 million copies of The Oregon Trail have been sold.[4]

Editions[edit]

Various games in the series were released with inconsistent titles.

The Oregon Trail games
TitleYearDeveloperPublisherPlatform
The Oregon Trail1971Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul DillenbergerNot publishedHP 2100
OREGON1975Modified by Don RawitschMECC (on timeshare system)CDC Cyber 70
OREGON1978John Cook (ported from timeshare version)MECC (as download)Apple II
OREGON (part of Elementary Volume 6)1980Unchanged from 1978 versionMECC (on floppy disk)Apple II
Oregon (part of Expeditions)1983MECC (ported from 1980 Apple II version)MECCAtari 8-Bit
Oregon (part of Expeditions)1984MECC (ported from 1980 Apple II version)MECCCommodore 64, Radio Shack TRS-80
The Oregon Trail1985R. Philip Bouchard (designer), MECCMECCApple II
The Oregon Trail1990MECC (direct copy of 1985 Apple II version)MECCDOS
The Oregon Trail1991MECCMECCMacintosh (B&W)
The Oregon Trail Deluxe1992MECCMECCDOS (with mouse support)
The Oregon Trail1993MECCMECCWindows 3.x, Windows
Oregon Trail II1995Wayne Studer (designer), MECCSoftKeyDOS, Windows 3.x, Windows, Macintosh
The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition1997The Learning CompanyThe Learning CompanyWindows, Macintosh
The Oregon Trail 4th Edition1999The Learning CompanyThe Learning CompanyWindows, Macintosh
The Oregon Trail 5th Edition2001The Learning CompanyThe Learning CompanyWindows, Macintosh
The Oregon Trail2009Gameloft Shanghai, Gameloft New YorkGameloftDSiware
The Oregon Trail: Gold Rush2010GameloftGameloftJ2ME
The Oregon Trail HD[14]2010GameloftGameloftWindows Phone, Android, iOS
The Oregon Trail: American Settler2011GameloftGameloftiOS, J2ME
The Oregon Trail2011DoubleTapGames LLCCrave EntertainmentWii, 3DS
The Oregon Trail Card Game[15]2016Pressman Toy CorporationPressman Toy CorporationCard game
Handheld Oregon Trail2018Basic Fun!Handheld device
The Oregon Trail: Journey to Willamette Valley[16]2018Pressman Toy CorporationPressman Toy CorporationBoard game
The Oregon Trail2021GameloftAppleApple Arcade

Legacy[edit]

The game was popular among American elementary school students from the mid-1980s to mid-2000s, as many computers came bundled with the game.[citation needed] MECC followed up on the success of The Oregon Trail with similar titles such as The Yukon Trail and The Amazon Trail.[17]David H. Ahl published Westward Ho!, set on the Oregon Trail in 1848, as a type-in game in 1986.[18]

The phrase 'You have died of dysentery' has been popularized on T-shirts[4] and other promotional merchandise. Another popular phrase from the game is 'Here lies andy; peperony and chease,' which is a player-generated epitaph featured on an in-game tombstone saved to a frequently bootlegged copy of the game disk,[19] and likely a direct reference to a popular Tombstone pizza television commercial from the 1990s.

The game resurfaced in 2008 when Gameloft created an updated version for cell phones.[20][21][4] A new release for the iPhone and iPod Touch is also available from Gameloft.[22] The game went live in the iTunes App Store on March 11, 2009.[23] On January 7, 2010, the Palm webOS version was released to the Palm App Catalog. On November 11, 2010, an Xbox Live version was released on Windows Phone 7.

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 prairie schooner or a Conestoga wagon. The player can also choose to become a banker, a carpenter, or a farmer, each of which has unique benefits. Unlike the computer version of the game, players in the iPhone and iPod Touch version do not need to buy guns and bullets. The game has received a major update, which had the player using trading and crafting to upgrade their wagon, buy food, and cure ailments.

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In 2011 the 1975 and 1978 BASICsource code versions of the game were reconstructed.[24]

On February 2, 2011, a new version of the game was released on the social networking site Facebook.[25] This version was removed from Facebook when Blue Fang Games closed.[26] A new version of the game was also released for the Wii and 3DS that year, and received a negative critical response.[27]

In 2012, a parody called Organ Trail 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.[28]

In 2012, the Willamette Heritage Center (WHC) and the Statesman Journal newspaper in Salem, Oregon created Oregon Trail Live as a live-action event.[29] 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 Nerf guns at college students wearing wigs and cloth antlers, while carrying 200 pounds 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 Willamette Valley was at the other end. The WHC received the 2014 Outstanding Educator Award from the Oregon-California Trails Association for this event.

In 2013, a dark comedy entitled Oregon Trail: The Play! received its first professional production by New Orleans-based theatre company The NOLA Project, and was subsequently published in 2016 by Alligator Pear Publishing, LLC. The play closely parodies the game, following a westward-headed family as they stock up on provisions for their oxen-led wagons and do their best to survive river crossings, illnesses, hunting, highway robbery, and a host of other mid-nineteenth century dilemmas. Audience members are asked to help provide food for the family in a mid-play Nerf shooting gallery.

In 2014, a parody musical called The Trail to Oregon! was made by the musical theater company StarKid Productions, with several references being made towards the game.[30]

In 2015, a 5k fun run held in Oregon City (the end of the route of the Oregon Trail) was modeled after the game with choice points along the route.[31]

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In 2016, the game was parodied in an episode of Teen Titans Go! entitled 'Oregon Trail' (Season 3, Episode 48).[citation needed]

Also in 2016, Pressman Toy Corporation released The Oregon Trailcard game based on the video game.[32]

The game was referenced on the May 15, 2020 edition of WWE Smackdown. On that episode Otis told both John Morrison and The Miz that his usual tag team partner Tucker couldn't make it to the tag team match that night, 'because he got dysentery on The Oregon Trail.'[33][34]

References[edit]

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  1. ^Lipinski, Jed (July 29, 2013). 'The Legend of The Oregon Trail'. mental_floss. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
  2. ^Shea, Jeremy (February 24, 2014). 'An Interview With the Teacher-Turned-Developer Behind 'Oregon Trail''. Yester: Then For Now. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  3. ^Veeneman, Dan. 'Hewlett-Packard HP 2000 Time Shared BASIC'. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
  4. ^ abcdefghLussenhop, Jessica (January 19, 2011). 'Oregon Trail: How three Minnesotans forged its path'. City Pages. Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
  5. ^ abcBouchard, R. Philip (June 29, 2017). 'How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time'. The Philipendium. Medium. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  6. ^Grosvenor, Emily (September 25, 2014). 'Going West: The World of Live Action, Competitive Oregon Trail'. The Atlantic. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  7. ^Rawitsch, Dan (May–June 1978). 'Oregon Trail'. Creative Computing. pp. 132–139. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  8. ^'You Have Died of Dysentery: Exploring The Oregon Trail's Design History'. format.com. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
  9. ^Interview with Dale Lafrenz. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (accessed July 1, 2012)
  10. ^Oregon Trail GameArchived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^The Oregon Trail: 3rd Edition for Windows (1997) – MobyGames
  12. ^Amazon.com: Oregon Trail 4th Edition: Software
  13. ^Amazon.com: The Oregon Trail, 5th Edition: Software
  14. ^'Gameloft primes five HD games for Windows Phone 7 US launch'. pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  15. ^'The Oregon Trail Card Game'. pressmantoy.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  16. ^'The Oregon Trail: Journey to Willamette Valley'. pressmantoy.com. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  17. ^Coventry, Joshua. 'Educational computing for the masses'. SiliconUser. Archived from the original on June 28, 2007. Retrieved June 12, 2007.
  18. ^Ahl, David H. (1986). 'Westward Ho!'. David H. Ahl's BASIC Computer Adventures. Microsoft Press. ISBN0-914845-92-6.
  19. ^Stacy Conradt (May 11, 2009). 'The Quick 10: The Oregon Trail Computer Game'. Mental floss. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  20. ^Ericson, Tracy. 'The Oregon Trail: Contracting dysentery has never been so much fun'. PocketGamer. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
  21. ^Beidler, Aurae (January 31, 2008), Facebook Oregon Trail Application: Social Networking Website's Version of the Original Educational Game, Suite 101
  22. ^Buchanan, Levi (February 25, 2009). 'Oregon Trail iPhone Hands-On'. IGN. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
  23. ^Alaburda, Bob (March 11, 2009). 'The Oregon Trail Out Now-On'. ThePortableGamer. Archived from the original on March 14, 2009. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
  24. ^On the Trail of the Oregon Trail by Jimmy Maher on filfre.net (source code: oregon1975.bas and oregon1978.bas, March 27, 2011)
  25. ^Jackson, A. Diallo (January 28, 2011). 'Classic games coming to Facebook'. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  26. ^Osborne, Joe (December 19, 2011). 'Carmen Sandiego, Oregon Trail on Facebook will be no more next year'. games.com news. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
  27. ^'Oregon Trail Review'. GameSpot. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  28. ^'Organ Trail'. hasproductions. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  29. ^'Oregon Trail Live'. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  30. ^'The Trail To Oregon!'.
  31. ^'The Oregon Trail Game 5K'. Archived from the original on July 16, 2015.
  32. ^Krol, Jacob (July 29, 2016). 'The Oregon Trail is back, but this time it's a card game'. CNET. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  33. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0857332/movieconnections?ref_=tt_ql_trv_6
  34. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12126764/movieconnections?ref_=tt_ql_trv_6

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External links[edit]

  • The Oregon Trail series at MobyGames
  • The Oregon Trail 1990 DOS edition at the Internet Archive

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