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

"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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...