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Target Stores Selling Handheld Oregon Trail Game

Bill Martens
Posted by: Bill Martens Date: March 1, 2018
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Target Stores are now apparently getting into the Realm of the Retro Machine.   A new hand held game being sold exclusively  at Target emulates the original 1984 version of The Oregon Trail.  While most games related to the property in recent years have focused on renewing the property, this one plays squarely on the original.   In a form factor that looks a lot like some of the Akalabeth emulators for iPhone, The Oregon Trail hand held has all of the…

The history of The Oregon Trail Game

Bill Martens
Posted by: Bill Martens Date: January 20, 2011
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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Oregon Trail Game, Jessica Lussenhop has written what is likely the most thorough history of the game and the three men who created it. While the game started out as just a lowly text type mainframe based game, it became an icon of American Education over the past 30 or so years of its history once the graphical version was produced by MECC in 1985.  You can read…