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The Oregon Trail (video game)
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This article is about the original The Oregon Trail video game. For the page on the entire series, see The Oregon Trail (series).
The Oregon Trail
DOS Cover art
Developer(s)
MECC
Publisher(s)
Brøderbund
The Learning Company
Gameloft
Platform(s)
Android, Apple II, Atari 8-Bit, iOS, Macintosh, BlackBerry, Commodore 64, DOS, Facebook, Java ME, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Windows, Mobile, Phone 7, TI-99/4a, ColecoVision
Release
December 3, 1971
Genre(s)
Adventure
Mode(s)
single-player video game
Screenshot from the Apple II version
The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) in 1974.[1] The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th-century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding a party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley via a covered wagon in 1848.
The game is the first entry in the Oregon Trail series, and has since been released in many editions by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to it, as well as inspiring a number of spinoffs (such as The Yukon Trail and The Amazon Trail) and the parody/homage The Organ Trail.
Contents
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1 Gameplay
1.1 Travel
1.2 Hunting
1.3 Death
1.4 Scoring
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links
Gameplay[edit]
Travel[edit]
The game includes several landmarks along the trail where players can make decisions, shop for supplies or rest. These landmarks include: Kansas River, Big Blue River, Fort Kearney, Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie, Independence Rock, South Pass, Fort Bridger, Green River, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Snake River, Fort Boise, Grande Ronde Valley in the Blue Mountains, Fort Walla Walla, and The Dalles. When approaching Oregon's Willamette Valley, travelers can either float a raft through the Columbia River Gorge or take the Barlow Road.
Hunting[edit]
An important aspect of the game was the ability to hunt. Using guns and bullets bought over the course of play, players select the hunt option (#8) and hunt wild animals to add to their food reserves. In the original version, there were no graphics and players were timed on how fast they could type "BANG," "WHAM," or "POW," with misspelled words resulting in a failed hunt. In the first full-graphics version, players controlled a little man who could aim a rifle in one of eight directions and fire single shots at animals. In later versions, players hunted with a cross-hair controlled by the mouse or touch screen (or the Wii Remote pointer in the Wii version). Bison were the slowest moving targets and yielded the most food, while rabbits and squirrels were fast and offered very small amounts of food. Deer (eastern section) and elk (western section) were in the middle in terms of speed, size, and food yield; bears were between bison and deer in all three properties. While the number of wild game shot during a hunting excursion is limited by only the player's supply of bullets, the maximum amount of meat that can be carried back to the wagon is 100 pounds in early versions of the game. In later versions, as long as there were at least two living members of the wagon party, 200 pounds could be carried back to the wagon. In the later version, players could hunt in different environments. For example, hunting during winter would result in graphics showing grass covered in snow. In later versions, the over-hunting of animals would result in "scarcity" and reduce the number of animals that appeared later in the game. Also, some versions also allow the player to go fishing, with the 40th anniversary version released on Wii and Nintendo 3DS using motion controls to cast the fishing rod.
Death[edit]
Throughout the course of the game, members of the player's party could fall ill and not rest, causing further harm to the victim. The party could die from various causes, such as measles, snakebite, exhaustion, typhoid, cholera, and, perhaps most famously, dysentery. People could also die from drowning or accidental gunshot wounds. The player's oxen were also subject to illness and death. In the Oregon Trail 2/OT2 for PC and later releases, when a member of the player's party dies, the player has the option of conducting a brief funeral: If the player elects to do so (as the game's instructions and in-game advisers strongly recommend in all but the very harshest environments), the player may write a tombstone epitaph for the party member before continuing down the trail; if the player declines to hold a funeral, the party suffers a severe blow to morale.
Scoring[edit]
At the conclusion of the journey, a player's score is determined in two stages. In the first stage, the program awards a "raw" or unscaled number of points for each remaining family member (weighted by party health), each remaining possession (weighted by type), and remaining cash on hand (one point per dollar). In the second stage, the program multiplies this raw score depending on the party's initial level of resources determined by the profession of the party's leader; for example, in the Apple II game, a banker starting with $1600 receives no bonus, the final score of a carpenter starting with $800 is doubled, and the final score of a farmer starting with $400 is tripled.
Reception[edit]
Reception
Aggregate score
Aggregator
Score
Metacritic 66/100 (iOS)[2]
Review scores
Publication
Score
AllGame [3]
GameSpot 3/10 (Wii)[4]
The Oregon Trail was extremely successful, selling over 65 million copies,[5] after ten iterations over forty years.[6] It was included in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.[7] It was a hallmark in American elementary schools in the 1980s, 1990s, and early-mid 2000s as many school computers, including the Apple II, came bundled with the game.[8][9] Smithsonian magazine observed, "The Oregon Trail is still a cultural landmark for any school kid who came of age in the 1980s or after. Even now, there remains a constant pressure to revive the series, so that nostalgic Gen Xers and Millennials can amble westward with a dysentery-riddled party once again."[10] In 2014 it inspired a parody musical, The Trail to Oregon![11]
The game spawned many remakes, which received average to poor receptions. The Wii version obtained a 3 out of 10 from GameSpot, citing bland graphics, awkward controls and a confusing interface. Despite this, the reviewers stated that it could be a good educational tool.[4] The game's iOS remake received a better reception, with a Metacritic score of 66/100.[2] Multiplayer claimed the game was fun at first, but soon went downhill. They gave the game a 65/100.[12]
Polygon described it as one of the most successful games of all time, calling it a cultural icon.[5] IGN (in 2009) described the game as a "fond memory that will not let you down."[13] Due to its widespread popularity, “The Oregon Trail” was inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame in 2016.[14][15] In 2012, The Oregon Trail was listed on Time's All-TIME 100 greatest video games list.[16] In 2016, Time placed the game 9th on its The 50 Best Video Games of All Time list.[17]
Oregon portal
Video games portal
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Lussenhop, Jessica. "Oregon Trail: How three Minnesotans forged its path | City Pages". City Pages. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
^ Jump up to: a b "The Oregon Trail: American Settler". Metacritic. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
Jump up ^ Hunt, Drew. "Oregon Trail Review - Allgame". Allgame. Archived from the original on December 10, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b Venter, Jason (December 16, 2011). "Oregon Trail Review". GameSpot. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b Campbell, Colin (July 31, 2013). "The Oregon Trail was made in just two weeks". Polygon. Future plc. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
Jump up ^ Rosenberg, Eli (January 21, 2011). "Sally Has Diphtheria: Is Oregon Trail the Greatest Video Game of All Time?". thewire.com. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
Jump up ^ Mott, Tony (2010). 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. Universe Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7893-2090-2.
Jump up ^ sources, KTVZ.COM news (27 October 2017). "'Travel Oregon: The Game' builds on 'Oregon Trail' legacy".
Jump up ^ "'Minecraft: Education Edition' Brings 21st-Century Students Back to the Oregon Trail". 27 September 2017.
Jump up ^ "How You Wound Up Playing The Oregon Trail in Computer Class".
Jump up ^ "'The Trail to Oregon' musical review: A new kind of Starkid show". 14 July 2014.
Jump up ^ Pugliese, Tommaso (December 15, 2011). "The Oregon Trail: Pionieri d'America" (in Italian). Multiplayer.it. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
Jump up ^ Buchanan, Levi (March 5, 2009). "Fond Memories: The Oregon Trail". IGN. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
Jump up ^ 'Oregon Trail' officially inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame
Jump up ^ Minnesota-made 'Oregon Trail' is inducted into Video Game Hall of Fame
Jump up ^ Aamoth, Doug (November 15, 2012). "All-TIME 100 Video Games". Time. Time Inc. Archived from the original on November 18, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
Jump up ^ "The 50 Best Video Games of All Time". Time. Time Inc. August 23, 2016. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
External links[edit]
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Oregon Trail.
The Oregon Trail at MobyGames

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We Gotta Get out of This Place
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For the book, see We Gotta Get out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture.
"We Gotta Get out of This Place"
Single by The Animals
B-side
"I Can't Believe It"
Released
July 1965 (UK)
September 1965 (U.S.)
Format
7" single
Recorded
1965
Genre
Rock
Length
3:17
Label
Columbia Graphophone (UK)
MGM (U.S.)
Songwriter(s)
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer(s)
Mickie Most
The Animals singles chronology
"Bring It On Home to Me"
(1965) "We Gotta Get out of This Place"
(1965) "It's My Life"
(1965)
"Bring It On Home to Me"
(1965) "We Gotta Get out of This Place"
(1965) "It's My Life"
(1965)
"We Gotta Get out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get out of This Place",[1] is a rock song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by The Animals. It has become an iconic song of its type and was immensely popular with United States Armed Forces GIs during the Vietnam War.
In 2004 it was ranked number 233 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list; it is also in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 The two versions
2 Impact
3 In popular culture
4 The Angels version
5 Track listing
6 Personnel
7 Other versions
8 Charts
9 References
10 External links
History[edit]
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil were husband and wife (and future Hall of Fame) songwriters associated with the 1960s Brill Building scene in New York City.[2]
Mann and Weil wrote and recorded "We Gotta Get out of This Place" as a demo, with Mann singing and playing piano. It was intended for The Righteous Brothers, for whom they had written the number one hit "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"[3] but then Mann gained a recording contract for himself, and his label Red Bird Records wanted him to release it instead. Meanwhile, record executive Allen Klein had heard it and gave the demo to Mickie Most, The Animals' producer. Most already had a call out to Brill Building songwriters for material for the group's next recording session (The Animals hits "It's My Life" and "Don't Bring Me Down" came from the same call[4]), and The Animals recorded it before Mann could.[3]
In The Animals' rendition, the lyrics were slightly reordered and reworded from the demo and opened with a locational allusion – although different from that in the songwriters' minds – that was often taken as fitting the group's industrial, working class Newcastle-upon-Tyne origins:[5][6][7]
In this dirty old part of the city
Where the sun refused to shine
People tell me, there ain't no use in tryin'
Next came a verse about the singer's father in his deathbed after a lifetime of working his life away, followed by a call-and-response buildup, leading to the start of the chorus:
We gotta get out of this place!
If it's the last thing we ever do…
The arrangement featured a distinctive bass lead by group member Chas Chandler.[8] This was the first single not to be recorded by the original line-up, following as it did the departure of keyboard player Alan Price and his replacement by Dave Rowberry. It featured one of singer Eric Burdon's typically raw, fierce vocals.[9][10] Rolling Stone described the overall effect as a "harsh white-blues treatment from The Animals. As [Burdon] put it, 'Whatever suited our attitude, we just bent to our own shape.'"[11]
The song reached number 2 on the UK pop singles chart on August 14, 1965 (held out of the top slot by The Beatles' "Help!").[12] The following month, it reached number 13 on the U.S. pop singles chart, its highest placement there.[13] In Canada, the song also reached number 2, on September 20, 1965.[citation needed]
The two versions[edit]
The UK and US single releases were different versions from the same recording sessions. The take that EMI, The Animals' parent record company, sent to MGM Records, the group's American label, was mistakenly one that had not been selected for release elsewhere. The two versions are most easily differentiated by the lyric at the beginning of the second verse: in the US version the lyric is, "See my daddy in bed a-dyin'", while the UK version uses, "Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'" (as a result of an error by the music labels, certain online retailers sell the UK version but incorrectly identify it as the US version).
In the US the song (in its "mistaken" take) was included on the album Animal Tracks, released in the fall 1965, and again on the popular compilation The Best of The Animals released in 1966 and re-released with an expanded track list on the ABKCO label in 1973. The song was not on any British Animals album during the group's lifetime.
Once Animals reissues began occurring during the compact disc era, Allen Klein, by now owner of ABKCO and the rights to this material, dictated that the "correct" British version be used on all reissues and compilations everywhere. Thus, as US radio stations converted from vinyl records to CDs, gradually only the British version became heard. Some collectors and fans in the US wrote letters of complaint to Goldmine magazine, saying they believed the US version featured an angrier and more powerful vocal from Burdon, and in any case wanted to hear the song in the form they had grown up with. The 2004 remastered SACD Retrospective compilation from ABKCO included the US version.
Impact[edit]
At the time, the title and simple emotional appeal of "We Gotta Get out of This Place" lent itself to some obvious self-identifications—for instance, it was a very popular number to be played at high school senior proms and graduation parties. In music writer Dave Marsh's view, it was one of a wave of songs in 1965, by artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, that ushered in a new role for rock music as a vehicle for common perception and as a force for social consciousness.[14] Writer Craig Werner sees the song as reflecting the desire of people to take a hard look at their own lives and the community they come from.[10] Burdon later said, "The song became an anthem for different people – everybody at some time wants to get out of the situation they're in."[5]
The song was very popular with United States Armed Forces members stationed in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.[7] It was frequently requested of, and played by, American Forces Vietnam Network disc jockeys.[15] During 2006 two University of Wisconsin–Madison employees, one a Vietnam veteran, began an in-depth survey of hundreds of Vietnam veterans, and found that "We Gotta Get out of This Place" had resonated the strongest among all the music popular then: "We had absolute unanimity is this song being the touchstone. This was the Vietnam anthem. Every bad band that ever played in an armed forces club had to play this song."[16] Just such a band played the song in an episode ("USO Down", by Vietnam veteran Jim Beaver) of the American television series about the war, Tour of Duty, and the song is reprised in the episode's final scene.
"We Gotta Get out of This Place" was also used in Dennis Potter's 1965 television play Stand Up, Nigel Barton and the BBC's 1996 Newcastle-set Our Friends in the North, which partially took place in the 1960s. In America it was used as the title credits song in some episodes of the Vietnam War-set television series China Beach. It was then applied to the Bin Laden family, having to leave the United States in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, in Michael Moore's 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11. It also was featured in the soundtrack to the 1987 movie Hamburger Hill. It was used in a third-season episode of the 2000s television series Heroes. It was used as the theme song for 2002 BBC comedy TLC and the 2013 BBC series Privates. The song was also featured humorously in the Kong: Skull Island trailer[17]
In a 2012 keynote speech to an audience at the South by Southwest music festival, Bruce Springsteen performed an abbreviated version of The Animals' version on acoustic guitar and then said, "That's every song I've ever written. That's all of them. I'm not kidding, either. That’s 'Born to Run', 'Born in the U.S.A.'"[18]
In popular culture[edit]
The song's title and theme have become a common cultural phrase over the years.
It formed the basis for the title of academician Lawrence Grossberg's We Gotta Get out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), detailing the conflict between American conservatism and rock culture. Similarly, it formed the title basis for Gerri Hirshey's 2002 account, We Gotta Get out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock.
It has also been used as the title of editorials by American Journalism Review[19] and other publications. The title was even used to name an art exhibit, curated by Stefan Kalmar at the Cubitt Gallery in London in 1997.
The Angels version[edit]
We Gotta Get Out of This Place is the twenty eighth single by Australian Hard rock band The Angels, released in 1986.[20][21] It is the third single to be released from The Angels eighth studio album Howling. The song peaked at number 7 on the ARIA Charts and number 13 on the Recorded Music NZ,[22][23]
"We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
Single by The Angels
from the album Howling
Released
1986
Format
Vinyl, 7
Genre
Hard Rock
Length
4:43
Label
Mushroom Records
Songwriter(s)
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer(s)
Steve Brown
The Angels singles chronology
"Don't Waste My Time"
(1986) "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
(1986) "Can't Take Any More"
(1987)
"Don't Waste My Time"
(1986) "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
(1987) "Can't Take Any More"
(1987)
Track listing[edit]
We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) - 4:43
I Just Wanna Be With You (New Version) (Doc Neeson, John Brewster, Richard Brewster) - 3:54
Personnel[edit]
Bass, Vocals, Saxophone – Jim Hilbun
Drums – Brent Eccles
Lead Guitar – Rick Brewster
Lead Vocals – Doc Neeson
Rhythm Guitar – Bob Spencer
Production
Steve Brown (tracks: 1)
Ashley Howe (tracks: 2)
Other versions[edit]
"We Gotta Get out of This Place" has been recorded or performed in concert by numerous artists, including The Cryan' Shames (1966), The American Breed (1967), The Frost (1970), The Partridge Family (1972), Bruce Springsteen (performed only a handful of times in his career, but acknowledged by him as one of his primary influences in the 1970s[24]), Udo Lindenberg (in a German language adaption in the 1970s for which commercial success was small), Blue Öyster Cult (1978), Steve Bender (1978), Gilla (1979), Angelic Upstarts (1980), Gardens & Villa, Grand Funk Railroad (1981), David Johansen (1982, and a hit on album oriented rock radio and MTV as part of an Animals medley), Fear (1982), The Angels (1986), Richard Thompson (1988), Jello Biafra and D.O.A. (1989), Randy Stonehill (1990), Bon Jovi (1992, again as part of an Animals medley for an MTV special), Midnight Oil (1993, for MTV Unplugged), Space (1998), Southside Johnny (concerts in the 2000s), Overkill (2000), Widespread Panic (2005), Ann Wilson with Wynonna Judd (2007), Alice Cooper (2011), and many others.
In 1990 Eric Burdon joined Katrina and the Waves for a recording of it for use on China Beach. In 2000 Barry Mann revisited the song, performing it with Bryan Adams on Mann's retrospective solo album Soul & Inspiration. When Suzi Quatro was on a German tour in 2008 she came on stage and played bass on the song during an Eric Burdon concert at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart. Burdon also performed it in 2010 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, when songwriters Mann and Weil were inducted.[25] Later in 2010, Mann and Weil were at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles – to open a gallery for the Songwriter's Hall of Fame[26] – and performed their original version of the song, including previously-unheard lyrics like "What are we waiting for?" (which was supposed to occur before the familiar lyrics in the chorus).
Charts[edit]
Chart (1965)
Peak
position
Canadian Singles Chart 2
German Singles Chart[27] 31
UK Singles Chart[12] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[13] 13
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Spelling on original Columbia Graphophone single release label used the "We've" form; the sleeve left out the "Of". However, song publisher BMI registers it as "We" (see BMI searchable database) as do the large majority of music references sources and album labels.
Jump up ^ "Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil". The Official Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil Web site. Archived from the original on 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
^ Jump up to: a b Dale Kawashima. "Legendary Songwriting Duo Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil Talk About Their Classic Hits and New Projects". Songwriter Universe. Retrieved 2007-02-18. Demo audio stream at end of article.
Jump up ^ "Songwriter Carl D'Errico Interviewed by Mick Patrick". Spectropop. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
^ Jump up to: a b Terry Gross (2004-07-02) [2002]. "Former Animals Singer Eric Burdon". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
Jump up ^ Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll (2nd ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. p. 271. ISBN 0-306-80683-5.
^ Jump up to: a b Perone, James E. (2009). Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion. ABC-CLIO. p. 129. ISBN 0275998606.
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Jump up ^ Dan Aykroyd; Ben Manilla (2004). Elwood's Blues: Interviews With The Blues Legends & Stars. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 132. ISBN 0879308095.
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