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Game entry

The Oregon Trail

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

After 82 duels settled by the community, The Oregon Trail stands no. 4,533 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,373 ELO points and 35% of wins. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 310 out of 342 (Strategy).

World rank

no. 4,533

ELO score

1,373

Wins

35%

Duels played

82

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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.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,373 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games The Oregon Trail sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 4,530 Sheepy: A Short Adventure 1,373
  2. 4,531 Dysmantle 1,373
  3. 4,532 Post Mortem 1,373
  4. 4,533 The Oregon Trail 1,373
  5. 4,534 Aven Colony 1,373
  6. 4,535 Loadout 1,373
  7. 4,536 Offworld Trading Company 1,373

Released in 1971

The standing

Where The Oregon Trail ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where The Oregon Trail stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 310 out of 342 (Strategy).

Where The Oregon Trail ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 4,533 5,110
Strategy 310 342

The community

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