![]() Later it grew into a real game for a computer with a monitor-legitimately fun, as anyone with foggy memories of the First Gulf War can tell you, and maybe even educational. The Oregon Trail was basically a receipt, and a strange one at that. Created in 1971, the first version was played on a teletype-a rudimentary computer with no monitor-that spat out commands like "How much do you want to spend on your oxen team?" and the results of your decisions on a roll of paper. ![]() This week's profile of the creators behind The Oregon Trail describes how the game was created by a history teacher for his classroom. ![]() They were fun-not the blood-splattering, rocket-launching, hooker-beating type of fun-but the type of fun that even a mother could get behind and be convinced was educational. Before video games were more addicting than hard drugs, they were once designed for children. ![]()
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