The Carleton Trail
June 14th, 2007 by owenamHoly cow, is this teh serious?
MECC introduced their first game, Oregon, in 1974. It was accessible through the MECC Timeshare system library and was entirely text based. Oregon was originally developed in 1971 by Don Rawitsch and two other college students (Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann) at Carleton College in Minnesota. The first Oregon Trail was developed using a teletype and mainframe computer, and lacked sound and graphics. It was simultaneously used by 16 students on separate terminals. In 1974, Rawitsch joined MECC and installed Oregon onto the statewide computer system. Since all schools with computers in Minnesota were capable of accessing the system, soon the game was being widely used across the state by children of many ages.
Via Teague, who is not flipping out nearly enough. Why isn’t this in the brochure? Why doesn’t the college seal include a pixellated covered wagon? Why didn’t I receive one of these t-shirts during orientation?