
Later in 2009 a mobile and more cartoonish version would come out yet stay somewhat true to the strategic and educational goals of the series however, in 2011 The Oregon Trail: American Settler would come out as a mobile, freemium game with mostly no relation to the original series gameplay and style, and deserves no further mention.

The 3rd edition would come out in 1997, the 4th in 2000, and the 5th in 2001. It wasn’t for another decade until they released the version of the game I’m familiar with The Oregon Trail II in 1995.

Over a decade later, in 1985, they would go on to release The Oregon Trail, this time with primitive pixel art graphics of the time. It was developed by Gameloft and the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium or MECC as an educational text-based strategy game. The Oregon Trail series started all the way back in 197!. Much like Red Dead Redemption, The Oregon Trail series is an idealized look at the exploration of the American West. The Oregon Trail is a classic bit of Americana, and while the actual event was grim, dark, and steeped in the mistreatment of Native Americans, it did launch a rather fun series of games named after it.
