
Of spinoffs (such as The Yukon Trail and The Amazon Trail) and the parody The Organ Trail. Publishers who have acquired rights to it, as well as inspiring a number Has since been released in many editions by various developers and The game is the first entry in the Oregon Trail series, and The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in 1848.

The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974.
