A City Pages cover story on “Oregon Trail” recounted how Don Rawitsch hoped to teach his history class about westward expansion by mocking up a board game. Roommates Bill Heinemann and Paul ...

The idea sprouted when Heinemann's friend, Don Rawitsch, came up with a board game for students he was teaching that simulated 1800s settlers going west on the Oregon Trail. Computers were in ...

The game mechanics of this game are similar to that of the other The Oregon Trail games. It requires careful resource management in order to successfully travel across America toward the Western ...