Did you know that many of your favorite educational video games were created in the 1980s? Students had to use floppy discs on Apple IIe computers to play classics such as Lemonade Stand, The Oregon Trail, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?.
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History of Computers in Education
Background to Educational Software Publishing
What Makes a Game Educational?
MECC (Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium) was one of the first and most prolific software educational programmers and distributors. Take a look at some of the early educational video games.
Here is a retrospective from 1996 on Oregon Trail. What characteristics do you identify with that made these games fun? This will come in handy later with your assignment.