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The Oregon Trail (2009 video game)

2009 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Oregon Trail is a strategy video game developed by Gameloft New York and Gameloft Shanghai and published by Gameloft. Originally developed in 1985 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), the 2009 version is a re-release for Java ME-based mobile phones in 2009; a high-definition version was later released for iOS the same year. The game was then ported to DSiware, followed by followed by Android and Windows Mobile in 2010, and finally came to BlackBerry in 2013. The game was followed by two sequels: The Oregon Trail: Gold Rush and The Oregon Trail: American Settler.

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“The Oregon Trail (2009 video game)” enters the record as 2009 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oregon, Trail and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2009, 2010, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oregon, Trail and video.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Oregon Trail (2009 video game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.