The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. It was designed to teach schoolchildren about the life of 19th-century pioneers. The game was highly successful and was released on several other platforms, including Apple II in 1985 and PC MS-DOS in 1990.
The Oregon Trail incorporates simulation elements, planning, discovery and adventure, and mini-game-like activities (hunting and floating down the Dalles River).
GamesNostalgia offers the 1992 version, officially released for Windows 3.1, but working on MS-DOS. This version provides much better graphics than the original MS-DOS version of The Oregon Trail released in 1990.