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The Oregon Trail

1971 · Strategy, Simulation, Adventure · HP 2100, CDC Cyber 70 · MECC

The Oregon Trail is ranked no. 2,715 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,464 and 38% of duels won.

World rank

no. 2,715

ELO score

1,464

Wins

38%

Duels played

29

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About The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in 1848.

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Score moved from 1,500 to 1,464 ELO points over the last 123 days.

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