Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation

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Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation
Type Public
Founded 1971 (Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium)
1991 (Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation)
Closed October 1999
Headquarters Brooklyn Center, MN, United States
Key people Not disclosed
Industry Educational computer games
Products Educational computer games
Number of people Not disclosed
Website N/A

Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation (MECC) was an educational computer game company.

Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium

Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium was founded in 1971.

Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation

MECC was spun out to Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation in 1991 to North American Fund II for $5.21 million USD.

Acquisition and closure

MECC was acquired by SoftKey in 1995, then was closed in October 1999.

Video games by MECC

Title System Released Notes
The Oregon Trail 1971 Apple II, Atari 8-bit, CDC Cyber, C64, HP 2100 Original text version developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger.
The Oregon Trail 1985 Apple II, Basic Fun (NES), DOS, Mac OS, Windows
The Oregon Trail II 1995 DOS, Mac OS, Windows