0001 - The Oregon Trails - 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

Follow Us On Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/@HisNHerLP The First of a new series (and hopefully 1000 more videos to follow) of a 1001 Video Games you must play before you die. The idea of this series come from a book recently purchased by us, and decided to give it a shot, alot of the games on the list we remember growing up, but alot we haven't heard of before, or was never lucky enough to play, now, thanks to the internet, E bay, Amazon and other sites, we maybe able to get the list done. Info below on the book used, and the game played in this video. BOOK 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die is a video game reference book first published in October 2010.It consists of a list of video games released between 1970 and 2010, arranged chronologically by release date.Each entry in the list is accompanied by a short essay written by a video game critic, with some entries accompanied by screen shots.It was edited by Tony Mott, longtime editor of Edge magazine.The book's preface was written by video game designer Peter Molyneux. It is written in a similar manner to 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, also published by Universe Publishing. GAME 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. The game has been released in many editions by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to it, as well as inspiring a number of spinoffs and parodies. In 1971 Don Rawitsch, a senior at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, taught a grade 8 history class as a student teacher.He used HP Time-Shared BASIC running on an HP 2100 minicomputer to write a computer program to help teach the subject.Rawitsch recruited two friends and fellow student teachers, Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, to help. The Oregon Trail debuted to Rawitsch's class on 3 December 1971. Despite bugs, the game was immediately popular, and he made it available to others on Minneapolis Public Schools' time-sharing service. When the next semester ended, however, Rawitsch deleted the program, although he printed out a copy of the source code. MECC In 1974 Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), a state-funded organization that developed educational software for the classroom, hired Rawitsch. He added many historically accurate features and uploaded The Oregon Trail into the organization's time-sharing network, where it could be accessed by schools across Minnesota. The game became one of the network's most popular programs, with thousands of players monthly. In 1978 MECC began encouraging its schools to adopt the Apple II microcomputer.[4] The first published version of The Oregon Trail was in Creative Computing's May--June 1978 issue. It was written in BASIC 3.1 for the CDC Cyber 70/73-26. The program was then adapted by John Cook for the Apple II, and provided on A.P.P.L.E.'s PDS Disk series #108. A further version called Oregon Trail 2 was adapted in June, 1978 by J.P. O'Malley. The game was further released as part of MECC's Elementary series, on Elementary Volume 6 in 1980. The game was titled simply Oregon, and featured minimal graphics. It proved so popular that it was re-released as a standalone game, with substantially improved graphics, in 1985. By 1995 The Oregon Trail comprised about one third of MECC's $30 million in annual revenue.An updated version, Oregon Trail Deluxe, was released for DOS in 1992,followed by Oregon Trail II in 1995,The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition in 1997,and 4th and 5th editions.As of 2011, more than 65 million copies of The Oregon Trail have been sold. If you would like to play this game, it has been released on the following formats. The version played in this video is the 1992 The Oregon Trail Deluxe (DOS) edition Editions 1981--85 The Oregon Trail (Apple II) 1990 The Oregon Trail: Classic Edition (Macintosh) 1992 The Oregon Trail Deluxe (DOS) 1993--96 The Oregon Trail Ver 1.2 (Windows) 1996 Oregon Trail II (Windows) 1997 The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition (Windows) 2001 The Oregon Trail 4th Edition (Windows) 2002 The Oregon Trail 5th Edition (Windows) 2009 The Oregon Trail (DSiware) 2011 The Oregon Trail (Wii) 2011 The Oregon Trail (3DS) 2011 The Oregon Trail: American Settler (iOS, Android) 2012 The Oregon Trail (Windows Phone)