{"id":14448,"date":"2025-09-06T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:38:50","slug":"oregon-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14448","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three student teachers in Minneapolis created a computer game. 50 years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)\">The Oregon Trail<\/a> series was known by just about every kid in the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QbjlHeoLdc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topherPedersen\/OregonTrail1978\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topherPedersen\/OregonTrail1978\">1978 BASIC code for the Oregon Trail<\/a> as published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/creativecomputing-1978-05\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/creativecomputing-1978-05\">Creative Computing Magazine here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/creativecomputing-1978-05\/Creative_Computing_v04_n03_1978_May-June.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/creativecomputing-1978-05\/Creative_Computing_v04_n03_1978_May-June.pdf\">here<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/clintmoyer\/oregon-trail\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/clintmoyer\/oregon-trail\">another github<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 1985 version and many others (including the original text version) can be played here online: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.died-of-dysentery.com\/resources.html\">https:\/\/www.died-of-dysentery.com\/resources.html<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try it using a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Swordfish90\/cool-retro-term\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Swordfish90\/cool-retro-term\">retro terminal emulator<\/a> for a real retro feel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three student teachers in Minneapolis created a computer game. 50 years later, The Oregon Trail series was known by just about every kid in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3L2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14451,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions\/14451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}