{"id":2753,"date":"2024-04-13T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2024-04-13T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T07:53:39","slug":"fascinating-look-back-at-the-oregon-trail-game-and-how-it-all-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalpulse.net\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Look Back at The Oregon Trail Game and How it All Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-176420\">\n<p>\t<!-- .post-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content description cf entry-content content-spacious\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/13003413\/the-oregon-trail-game-retrospective-documentary.jpg\" alt=\"The Oregon Trail Game Retrospective Documentary\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><br \/>Remember The Oregon Trail? The educational strategy video game that was first released on the Apple II in 1985? If so, then you might be surprised to know that the story dates all the way back to 1971, when Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger developed a text-only version of the game.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-176420\"\/><br \/><iframe title=\"The Story of The Oregon Trail\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QbjlHeoLdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"The Story of The Oregon Trail\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QbjlHeoLdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>The original 1971 text game was coded in around 800 lines of HP Time-Shared BASIC for the Minneapolis school district\u2019s HP 2100 minicomputer. Schools could connect to that minicomputer with a teleprinter. It wasn\u2019t until 1985 did the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), led by game designer R. 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