They were part of a hit game called Oregon Trail that was made in just two weeks by a student teacher, Don Rawitsch, and was later funded by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium. Since it was developed in the 1970s, Oregon Trail has left a formidable legacy in America’s classrooms, clocking an impressive 65 million sales across its multitudinous platforms and versions. Given that early triumph, it seems strange that even as video games have accelerated at a breakneck pace — constantly adding polygons, exploring virtual reality and breaking new grounds in storyline and narrative — video games in the classroom are largely still limited to the kid in the back row playing on a smuggled-in Nintendo DS. Regular video games have long been acknowledged to have some benefits in developmental education.
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