Games of the 8-, 16- & 32-bit era

The Oregon Trail

Title	The Oregon Trail
First release	1971
Developer	Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
Publisher	Broderbund
Platforms	Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, DOS
Genres	simulation video game, text-based video game
Wikidata ID	Q1574053

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Box art (1): Source: libretro-thumbnails (upstream libretro-thumbnails (art by developers/publishers; see repo README)) · © Broderbund · internal use only.

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Videos

The Oregon Trail (1971) - Commodore 64 Program Start and Gameplay - With Commentary

Tekgamer's World · Commodore 64 version · gameplay · 14:47auto-matched
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Number Munchers

1986 · Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium

Home computer

Apple II, DOS