Oregon Trail is a computer game developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). The game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail.

Players assume the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The game is played from a top-down perspective, with players controlling the movement of their wagon and the actions of their party members. Along the way, players must make choices about which goods to bring, …