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History of MECC and Oregon Trail
Gammu writes "For the past thirty years, many children have been raised with a heavy diet of MECC games like Oregon Trail, Odell Lake and Lemonade Stand. These products weren't developed by a major game developer. Rather, they were developed by the state of Minnesota for use in their schools. What began as an initiative to get Minnesota students ready for the micro-computer age turned into a multi-million dollar a year business whose products are still used in US schools even a decade after MECC was sold off to another developer."

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Author: Zonk
Category: education
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Ahh, I remember the good old days of Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail on my school's old (well, stupidly new and shiny back then) Mac Pluses.

I also remember thinking how much better the BBC Micros at my next school were, because they had loads of games and could do colours.

Oregon trail FTW (though the version I played a few months ago sucked monkey dick, very, very crashy )