This weekend, perhaps due to an influx of Animal Crossing screenshots flooding my social media feeds, I felt like I wanted to play a game. Specifically, I felt an unexplainable urge to play The Oregon Trail, the classic computer game that puts you in the shoes of a pioneer heading out West.
I remember playing The Oregon Trail as a kid, as it was the only computer game available on my school computers growing up. Apparently this wasn’t an accident; The Oregon Trail was distributed by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium which, along with Steve Jobs, helped push computers into the Minnesota public school system in the 1970s, bundling Macintosh computers with the game. It got so popular that the MECC began distributing it to public schools via subscription, and the game became tied to school computers well into the 1990s.
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