Foundations
These companies created OS/2
What is IBM and Microsoft
What are ATMs?
This is the ultimate destination players strive to reach in The Oregon Trail.
What is Oregon?
The Oregon Trail was developed by this organization, known for its educational computer programs.
What is the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC)?
Players must carefully manage these, which represent how much food they eat per day.
What are rations?
After several disagreements on the direction of OS/2 this company departed from the project.
What is Microsoft?
Several generations of these machines ran off OS/2.
What is IBM Personal Computers?
Players must make decisions about these three critical resources: food, clothing, and this.
What is Ammunition?
The game was officially released in this year, bringing history and survival mechanics to classrooms.
What is 1985?
If a family member falls ill, the game warns players that they have this infamous disease.
What is dysentery?
This year was the latest release of OS/2 which still sees limited use today.
What is 2001?
OS/2 avoided many of these malicious programs compared to other systems.
What are Viruses?
In the game, this classic patriotic tune plays in an 8-bit style.
What is Yankee Doodle?
The game helped shape this generation’s understanding of westward expansion.
What is Generation X or Millennials?
This common challenge can result in the loss of oxen and supplies, often leaving players stranded.
What is a broken wagon wheel or axle?
This man was the lead on the OS/2 project.
Who is Ed Iacobucci?
This key feature set OS/2 apart from DOS giving users the ability to run multiple programs at the same time.
What is preemptive multitasking?
A major part of gameplay involves crossing these natural obstacles, sometimes requiring players to ford or float.
What are rivers?
The game’s original purpose was to teach this subject to students.
What is history?
Players often hunt for food, aiming for this large, slow-moving animal for the biggest reward.
What is a buffalo?
OS/2 was created to be the successor of this operating system.
What is DOS?
The processor for which OS/2 was made.
What is the Intel 80286 processor?
Players learn about history and geography while making choices about their pace and rationing on this famous 19th-century route.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Many modern versions and reimaginings of The Oregon Trail exist, proving its influence on this genre of video games.
What is educational games?
Reaching certain milestones along the way, such as forts and river crossings, triggers these in the game
What are celebratory tracks or music cues?