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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Oregon Trail, the massively popular series of educational games from developer MECC, has been a mainstay in many schools with computer labs from the 1970s and beyond.

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.

Even though the Oregon Trail is one of the oldest games ever created, it's still just as important today as it was over 50 years ago. Providing a great source of historical events that can often ...

The Oregon Trail is a computer game from 1974 whose 1985 iteration is the most popular on the Apple II. It wouldn’t be hard to assume that Apple is trying to market its nostalgia more. As we ...

MECC. Oregon Trail was educational for students to learn about the actual Oregon Trail that 19th-century emigrants would use to get to present-day Oregon.