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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 version of Oregon Trail released in 1992 for DOS and Mac, published by Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC).
Oregon Trail II is an educational video game and a revised version of the original 'The Oregon Trail'. It was redesigned with the help of American Studies PhD Wayne Studer. In contrast to the original version of the game, Oregon Trail II made an effort to include greater roles for women and racial minorities.
The famous and iconic 1980s graphical version of the game where settlers travel west, featuring dysentery, river crossings, and an entire family of characters.
Murphy's Minerals is a menu-driven, logic based educational game designed to teach players where to find and how to identify different types of minerals.
Fraction Munchers is the second math based game in the Munchers series of educational games. Aside from the subject matter, the basic concept is the same as other games in the series. It is played on a grid where the player controls a creature called the Fraction Muncher who has to eat the numbers or fractional expressions that correspond to the statement that is written above the grid. Other creatures known as troggles roam the grid and try to get to the muncher. There are five different ones and they all have their own behaviour and movement patterns. Eating wrong answers or getting caught by a troggle leads to a life being lost. There are four different game modes which decide what kind of statements should appear: fraction types, equivalents, comparing and expression. Additionally there is a combined mode that mixes all.
"Storybook Weaver" is a 1990 educational program for the Apple IIGS developed by Charolyn Kapplinger, Patricia Korn, John J. Krenz, Brian S. Nesse, Jean Sharp, and Steve Zehm, and distributed by MECC. The program allowed children to create their own stories using provided images, sound effects, and music. It was later released in 1992 for DOS with some graphical upgrades, and for Windows in 1995 as "Storybook Weaver: Classic Edition". It was followed by an enhanced version, called Storybook Weaver Deluxe, released in 1994.
MECC released a DOS version of The Oregon Trail that was essentially identical to the Apple II version. However, the graphics had to be redrawn for the DOS version, using a different color palette and a slightly different resolution – and therefore screen shots of the DOS version are slightly different than the corresponding Apple II screen shots.