Thursday, March 31, 2011

Oregon Trail: How three Minnesotans forged its path

It's one of the most popular educational games of all time

Some great links a well

FORTY YEARS AND TEN iterations later, the Oregon Trail has sold over 65 million copies worldwide, becoming the most widely distributed educational game of all time. Market research done in 2006 found that almost 45 percent of parents with young children knew Oregon Trail, despite the fact that it largely disappeared from the market in the late '90s.