The idea sprouted when Heinemann's friend, Don Rawitsch, came up with a board game for students he was teaching that simulated 1800s settlers going west on the Oregon Trail. Computers were in ...

The game mechanics of this game are similar to that of the other The Oregon Trail games. It requires careful resource management in order to successfully travel across America toward the Western ...

You may not know the game if you grew up outside the US, but you've felt its impact. Some say The Oregon Trail launched the entire category of educational gaming. Its innovations became video ...

"The Oregon Trail," an educational computer game for grade schoolers, which later spawned memes, is now being turned into a movie. Based on the actual Oregon Trail, a perilous path between ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – One of the most successful computer games may soon make its way to the big screen. Bill Heinemann, the creator of “The Oregon Trail,” said it is hard to find someone ...