11 votes

He created The Oregon Trail and he didn’t make a penny

Posted by cfabbro
Tags: the oregon trail, don rawitsch, gamedev, history, usa, westward expansion, minnesota educational computing consortium, education, 1970s, author.robert whitaker, source.slate, paywall
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/oregon-trail-game-history-inventor-don-rawitsch.html

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Title
Let Us Now Enjoy the Incredibly Pure Tale of the Teacher Who Invented The Oregon Trail
Authors
Robert Whitaker
Published
Nov 17 2021
Word count
1556 words

3 comments

  1. AugustusFerdinand
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    ...because he specifically gave it away for free.

    He created The Oregon Trail and he didn’t make a penny

    ...because he specifically gave it away for free.

    7 votes
  2. [2]
    Eric_the_Cerise
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    Has anyone ever done this in a tabletop RPG style? That could be interesting, no? One campaign, one wagon(-train), one group of players all battling dysentery.

    Has anyone ever done this in a tabletop RPG style? That could be interesting, no? One campaign, one wagon(-train), one group of players all battling dysentery.

    2 votes