“The Oregon Trail,” first released in 1974 before making it big in 1985 on the Apple II, was designed as an educational computer game for students to learn the circumstances of 19th-century ...

Oregon Trail went from humble beginnings to cult-like status over the years as it entered classrooms across the nation, ...

By Mia Galuppo Film Writer Grab your wagons and oxen, and get ready to ford a river: A movie adaptation of the popular grade school computer game Oregon Trail is in development at Apple.

This has never happened to me before!'" he said. Now more than 50 years after the first "Oregon Trail" program, Apple is reportedly developing the game into an action-comedy movie. "Surprising to ...

As first revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, Apple is developing a film based on “Oregon Trail.” The original computer game is set in 1848, giving players the opportunity to channel the ...

Still, part of the joy of Oregon Trail—which has been updated about a million times since its original release in 1971, but which will always be synonymous with blocky Apple II graphics in our ...

"The lasting fame of the game is a fascinating puzzle," says R Philip Bouchard, team leader and designer of the classic 1985 version of The Oregon Trail, released on the Apple II computer.

Many of today’s franchises had their starts on humble machines such as the NES or the Apple II. Gamers who remember playing The Oregon Trail on the Apple II (or its later DOS and Windows ...

The Oregon Trail is a computer game from 1974 whose 1985 iteration is the most popular on the Apple II. It wouldn’t be hard to assume that Apple is trying to market its nostalgia more.

Ron Wyden (D-OR) (R) shows off a current version of the computer game “Oregon Trail” on his iPhone while playing the the original version on an Apple IIGS with his Communications Director ...

Dysentery is coming to the big screen! Apple Original Films is officially set to develop “Oregon Trail,” an action/comedy feature that will be produced by EGOT-winners Benj Pasek and Justin ...