Games like "The Oregon Trail," "Number Munchers," and "Lemonade Stand" were all created by one group — MECC — that no longer exists. But the games have managed to live on, and they're ...

The 1990 MECC version of The Oregon Trail, where players face various trials and tribulations while trying to make it from east to west, is among them. The popular game was often used in schools ...

Oregon Trail. MECC also did Lunar Greenhouse which, like Odell Lake, put the student in the middle of the action by doing little experiments and deciding what to grow.

MECC. An updated version, Oregon Trail II, debuted on CD-ROM in 1995.MECC would change hands a few times, being acquired by venture capitalists and then by the Learning Company, and was even owned ...

A perfect example of this notion is 1971's The Oregon Trail, a text-based strategy title centred around 19th-century pioneers ...

From 1975 to 1995, MECC sold millions of copies of more than 300 different products, but it was always The Oregon Trail series that brought the most attention and profit.It went through four ...

What's included: (Almost) every standalone edition of The Oregon Trail which received an individual release, plus one wildcard. What's not included: Games across different systems (several ...

After graduation, Rawitsch got a job with the Minnesota Education Computing Consortium (MECC), a statewide program to expand computer access, and upgraded “Oregon Trail.” When MECC licensed ...

I still remember playing Oregon Trail back in 7th grade on an Apple IIe computer, hoping not to die too soon from seemingly random calamities like snakebites, or catching cholera or dysentery! First ...

MECC soon relented, putting The Oregon Trail in front of millions of children in the United States. Myself included. The Oregon Trail gets a glow-up.

At one point, Rawitsch says, "The Oregon Trail" accounted for one-third of MECC's revenue, standing out among the hundreds of pieces of software that the company published.

Apple has been connected to “Oregon Trail” since the game’s early days, when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak won MECC’s bid to put their new personal computers in schools.