ANTIC Interview 369 - Philip Bouchard, The Oregon Trail
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Philip Bouchard - MECC, The Oregon Trail
Philip Bouchard spent over 30 years designing computer software, 18 of which were focused on educational software. He was the principal designer for the Apple II games The Oregon Trail and Number Munchers.
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. \\xa0\\xa0"The Oregon Trail" is the world\'s longest-running video game franchise.
This interview took place August 26, 2017.
Links:
- Philip\\u2019s personal Web site - http://www.philipbouchard.com/
- The Philipendium, Insightful stories about science, nature, language, and education - https://medium.com/the-philipendium
- \\u201cHow I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time\\u201d article by R. Philip Bouchard - https://medium.com/the-philipendium/how-i-managed-to-design-the-most-successful-educational-computer-game-of-all-time-4626ea09e184
- \\u201cYou Have Died of Dysentery: The creation of The Oregon Trail \\u2013 the iconic educational game of the 1980s\\u201d book by R. Philip Bouchard - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B8JMKMC
- Oregon Trail game at archive.org - https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
- Oregon Trail series at WikiPedia