When Rawitsch joined the Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium (MECC) in 1974, he brought along the code for the game and MECC developed a version for distribution to schools�first in Minnesota and then around the United States.
Players had to choose which items to bring, how fast to travel, and what to do when food ran low or disease struck. First programmed on a primitive teletype printer, the game challenged students to assume the role of Western settlers crossing the continent on the way to the Pacific coast. Three student teachers, Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger, created The Oregon Trail in 1971 to help Minnesota schoolchildren learn American History.
As the longest-published, most successful educational game of all time, The Oregon Trail has blazed a path for the use of video games in learning.
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