What corporation created the game developed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life?
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The Oregon Trail (card game) The Oregon Trail is a card game based on the video game of the same name. It was created by Pressman Toy Corporation and released on 1 August 2016. The game is exclusively distributed through Target, although copies are also available via Amazon.com. The game components are in the style of 8-bit video games to emulate the look and feel of the original releases.
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The Oregon Trail (video game) 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. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley via a covered wagon in 1848.
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Wyatt Earp's Old West Wyatt Earp's Old West is a computer game developed by Grolier Electronic Publishing in 1994 for the IBM PC.
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Colobot Colobot (Colonize with Bots) is an educational real-time strategy video game featuring 3D graphics. The objective of the game is to find a planet for colonization by the human race by establishing a basic infrastructure on the surface and eliminating any alien life forms endangering the expedition. The game takes place on the Earth, Moon, and 7 fictional planets. The main feature of the game, which makes it educational, is the possibility for players to program their robots using a programming language similar to C++ or Java.
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Northwest Fur Trader Northwest Fur Trader was an educational software program for the Unisys ICON computer. It simulated a fur trading expedition in northern Canada. It was one of the most popular programs on the ICON, and often used as a demo during sales efforts. Unlike most contemporary resource allocation simulations, like Hamurabi or "The Oregon Trail", Northwest Fur Trader was primarily graphical, based on a map drawn using the built-in NAPLPS graphics system and the trackball for moving the icon representing the party's canoes. The player could stop at any point and then select from a number of commands, such as hunting for food, trapping for furs, etc.
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Babyz Babyz is a computer game in which one can play with and take care of a group of babies who live in a virtual house on the computer. The game was released in 1999 by The Learning Company, developed by members of PF Magic working there at the time.
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New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers is a farming simulation video game developed and published by Arc System Works, and is a sequel to the 2015 Nintendo 3DS eShop title "Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers". It was released in Japan on March 3, 2017 and in North America on March 27, 2017 for the Nintendo Switch and on June 7, 2017 for the Steam platform. It received mixed or average reviews according to Metacritic.
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Stars! Stars! is a turn-based strategy, science fiction 4X game. "Stars!" was developed by Jeff Johnson and Jeff McBride ("the Jeffs") for their own use, and initially released as shareware in 1995. A retail version was later produced for, and published by Empire Interactive, although the shareware version continued.
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La Terre (video game) La Terre is an educational video game released in 2003, developed and published by Microïds. It is designed to allow the user to discover and understand the planet Earth.
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Scruples (game) A Question of Scruples is a card game based on ethical dilemmas. The game was invented by Henry Makow in 1984 and developed by High Game Enterprises.
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MayaQuest: The Mystery Trail MayaQuest: The Mystery Trail (also known as "MayaQuest Trail") is an educational computer game created by MECC and inspired by the actual MayaQuest Expedition. It is a spin-off title "The Oregon Trail" series, featuring the lands of Mexico where the Mayan People once lived. While travelling across the lands by bicycle, the player learns all about the ancient culture and history of the indigenous people. The game also contains some Spanish language for additional learning.
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Gamestar Mechanic Gamestar Mechanic is an online game and community designed to teach the guiding principles of game design and systems thinking. The game is published by E-Line Media and supported by a partnership between E-Line Media and the Institute of Play.
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Midway Campaign Midway Campaign is a strategy game developed by Avalon Hill in 1980 (released across multiple platforms through 1983). It is a wargame using ASCII text for the visuals and is written in BASIC.
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Country Life (video game) Country Life is a farming simulation social network game developed by the Country Life development team and released on October 10, 2009. It has been inspired by the seminal "Story of Seasons" series and shares similarities with "FarmVille". Gameplay involving various aspects of farm management such as plowing land, planting, growing, and harvesting crops, harvesting trees, and bushes, and raising livestock.
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Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game is a real-time business simulation game developed by David Mullich in 1980 for the Apple II. Based upon queuing theory and released after the 1979 energy crisis, the game puts the player in the role of chief executive of Engulf Oil, setting gas prices and worker salaries, monitoring gas station lines, scheduling oil tanker arrivals, and negotiating oil prices with OPEC countries in a race against the clock to maximize profits. As with most Edu-Ware games, "Windfall" has an educational aspect, demonstrating the delicate balance in complex systems.
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The Farming Game The Farming Game is a board game simulating the economics of a small farm. Published in 1979, it was designed by George Rohrbacher, a rancher in Washington State. "The Farming Game" painfully reflects the real-life difficulties of running a farm. Also, the names and places in the game are the names of families farming for generations in Yakima Valley and other parts of Central Washington. When Rohrbacher invented the game, it was a desperate time for his failing farm and small family, which is reflected in the difficulty of the game, and the multitude of points taken into consideration in farming that are often left up to chance. It is considered a board game which has educational value.
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Trek-80 Trek-80 is a computer game developed by Judges Guild in 1979 for the TRS-80.
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Airline Tycoon Airline Tycoon is a business simulation game by Thomas Holz and Robert Kleinert, in which the player must successfully manage an airline. The original was developed by Spellbound, and published by Infogrames, however, the succeeding versions were published by a variety of publishers. The original "Airline Tycoon" was created for Windows, however, the later "Deluxe" version was also ported to Linux, Mac OS X, MorphOS, ZETA, iOS and Android. In this game, like all Tycoon computer games, the objective is to become a tycoon, and in this case, an “Airline Tycoon.” This is achieved through the balance of income and expenditures.
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Civilization (1980 board game) Civilization is a board game designed by Francis Tresham, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil (later by Gibsons Games), and in the US in 1981 by Avalon Hill. The game typically takes eight or more hours to play and is for two to seven players. The "Civilization" brand is now owned by Hasbro, but it is no longer published in the US.
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Survival Island 3 Survival Island 3: Australia Story was an iOS and Android game created by Kristina Fedenkova of NIL Entertainment, notorious for its blatant violence and racism against Australian Aboriginals. The game was released onto the App Store and Google Play in December 2015. The game is a 3D first-person survival-action game in which the player is able to ally with or fight against Indigenous Australian people as well as a variety of Australian fauna while trying to survive. It attracted strong criticism in Australia for its allegedly racist presentation of Indigenous Australians, which were presented as "real Aboriginals" and a threat to the fair-skinned player's survival. The game was also criticised for allegedly encouraging the player to perpetrate violence against Indigenous Australians. Apple rated the game PG for ages 12 and up.
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FutureU futureU is an educational video game developed and published by Aspyr Media on November 5, 2008 for Windows, Mac OS X, and the Nintendo DS, and created in association with test preparation company Kaplan, Inc.
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BattleLore (board game) BattleLore is a strategy board wargame for two players, created by Richard Borg and initially published by Days of Wonder in 2006 (and later by Fantasy Flight Games). The game is based on the same mechanics as "Battle Cry", "Memoir '44" and "", but has a fantasy and medieval theme.