Ummm... > [Oregon Trail] was in fact first written in 1971 by three educators at Carleton College, a small liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Don R

Ummm... > [Oregon Trail] was in fact first written in 1971 by three educators at Carleton College, a small liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann — no relation to the “Burger Bill” Heineman who worked on The Bard’s Tale series among other games — and Paul Dillenberger wrote the game in BASIC on an HP-2100 series minicomputer. - http://www.filfre.net/2011/03/on-the-trail-of-the-oregon-trail-part-1/ http://www.filfre.net/2011/03/on-the-trail-of-the-oregon-tra... Source code for a version from 3/27/75 at http://www.filfre.net/misc/oregon1975.bas http://www.filfre.net/misc/oregon1975.bas . See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_%28video_game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_%28video_game%... for the 1971 creation date.