Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Decades later, the title remains perhaps the most influential educational video game ever created, one that endures today as its influence is still being felt across the gaming industry. Despite more than 65 million copies sold, they never saw a dime.ĭo you want to eat (1) poorly (2) moderately or (3) well?Ī long, long time ago in Minneapolis, this question loomed over a small group of eighth-graders.Īppearing on a teletype machine - basically a primitive computer keyboard connected to a printer - at Jordan Junior High School, the strange question broke open the world of The Oregon Trail. In 1971, a trio of Minneapolis educators, using a hulking teletype machine connected to a mainframe miles away, designed the legendary game of westward expansion (and dysentery) that would help revolutionize personal computing.
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