There have been subsequent updates all the way up to 2021, but the original is still the most nostalgic for many people. He wanted a learning aid to teach his class about what life was really like on the trail from Independence, Missouri to The Dalles, Oregon in the 1850s.īy 1984 the version that I knew and loved as a kid was published, and a year later it was developed for the Apple II computer. A Brief History of The Oregon Trail GameĪs early as 1971 there was a very early version of the game developed by an 8th-grade teacher in Minnesota. When I found out that you can actually play an online emulated version of the original game my adult heart leaped for joy. Our classroom had a Commodore 64 computer, and I spent hours upon hours playing The Oregon Trail game with its beautiful 8-bit graphics. Let’s ford the river! I was in fifth grade at my school in Forest Grove, Oregon, and the memories are so fond.
