Oregon Trail: How three Minnesotans forged its path (2011)

jarcane · on Feb 18, 2015

I wrote a short piece on the history of the MECC, complete with instructions on how to setup to play Apple II Oregon Trail in your browser some years ago for a gaming site.

It's still up here: http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=145...

mark-r · on Feb 18, 2015

This brought back lots of memories for me, but not for the reasons you might think - I never played Oregon Trail myself. I was in one of those 20 school districts that got a Teletype, which is how I learned how to program. I've met Don Rawitsch, Dale LaFrenz, and Ken Brumbaugh back in the day, and worked for John Krenz later in life.

strictnein · on Feb 19, 2015

During time in our computer lab, it typically came down to one of four games: Oregon Trail

Odell Lake - Also from MECC - https://archive.org/stream/a2_Odell_Lake_v1.2_1986_MECC_US/O...

Number Munchers - another MECC game and possibly my favorite (if you haven't played it, give it a shot - https://archive.org/stream/Number_Munchers_v1.2_1986_MECC/Nu... - takes a minute or so to load. move with the arrow keys, munch with the spacebar)

The Carmen Sandiego games