The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail
Developer	Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger
Publisher	MECC
Platforms	As noted below
Released	December 3, 1971-present
Added to Museum	As noted below

The Oregon Trail is a series of educational video games, originally designed by Dan Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 before being published by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium in 1975, in which a wagon train attempts to make the dangerous trek along the Oregon Trail.

The historical Oregon Trail was a large-wheeled wagon route in the United States that ran east to northwest, connecting Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon. The trail was laid by fur trappers from around 1811 to 1840 and became a highly publicized emigrant route for wagon trains until the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.

Video games

Title	Developer	Release	System	Notes
The Oregon Trail	Don Rawitsch Bill Heinemann Paul Dillenberger	1971	Apple II, Atari 8-bit, CDC Cyber, C64, HP 2100	Text
The Oregon Trail	MECC	1985	Apple II, Basic Fun (NES), DOS, Mac OS, Windows	Graphical
The Oregon Trail II	MECC	1995	DOS, Mac OS, Windows
The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition	The Learning Company	1997	Mac OS, Windows
The Oregon Trail 4th Edition	The Learning Company	1999	Mac OS, Windows
The Oregon Trail 5th Edition	The Learning Company	2001	Mac OS, Windows
The Oregon Trail	Gameloft Shanghai Gameloft New York	2009	Nintendo DSi
The Oregon Trail: Gold Rush	Gameloft	2010	Feature phone (J2ME)
The Oregon Trail HD	Gameloft	2010	Android, iOS, Windows Phone
The Oregon Trail: American Settler	Gameloft	2011	iOS, Feature phone (J2ME)
The Oregon Trail	DoubleTapGames	2011	Nintendo 3DS, Wii
The Oregon Trail	Gameloft	2021	Apple Arcade (iOS, Mac OS, tvOS), Switch, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S