Name: Dysentery, Typhoid and Snakebites: The Early Days of "Oregon Trail"
Uploaded: 2019-10-14T06:31:15.000Z
Duration: 1 min 46 s
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The wagon, the river, dying of dysentary.

that this iconic game started as a board game?

It was 1971, three guys, Don, Bill, and Paul

Don, who would often dress up as historical figures

to captivate his students, needed a creative way

He started by using a map of the American frontier

and wrote flash cards for the hardships pioneers faced,

like dysentery, broken wagon wheels, and snake bites.

As soon as his roommates got wind of the board game,

Over the next two weeks, the three men put together

But, small problem: they didn't have a computer,

so they used this wacky machine, a teletype,

onto these huge pieces of paper and then print them out.

Kids were staying late and arriving early

with the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortion,

and he pitched them Oregon Trail as a program idea.

As soon as Apple 2s were launched in the late '70s

and sent out to classrooms all over Minnesota,

Such a big hit that other states began licensing the game.

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