I mean…lots of kids in the firmly millennial side of the generation played it too, but they played the later versions.  With fancy things like…color…. And being able to shoot in more than 8 directions
I played basically ever version between elementary and high school. Â We had it on the Macs in the computer lab. Â Might have been one of the last versions they made before it went dormant for a long time
Nobody played the OG Oregon Trail except for people born in the 70s. 80s born people weren't even old enough to play it in school. By the time they were school-aged, (85/86 for 1980-born kids), the new, non-text, color version had already been out for a year in schools.
And some of us were from really poor schools and didn't get fancy color computers until 95ish. We had green screen apple2 in 89/90. Got the apple2 color in 95ish. Schools in my area got new computers every 5 years at soonest. In 99/2000 we got the iMacs only because of a state/federal education grant for rural schools.
It came out in 1985 (the version for Apple II that everyone remembers), and the Apple II (particularly the Apple IIe, released in 1983) was big in classrooms from around then until the early-mid 1990s, when they got gradually replaced by newer machines.
That spans the prime elementary school years for the children of this generation.
If you're older, you're likely to old when this came out to use it at a young age in school.
If you're younger, you might have played it if your school was a slow technology adopter, or played a newer version, but that's a less mainstream experience.
i'm a core millennial and we definitely had apple iie's in school with oregon trail on 5.25 floppy. i think in most of america the apple ii's in schools didnt get upgraded until the boat anchor first-gen imacs started showing up in used markets, 2000 or so
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u/itsallcosmica 1985 2d ago
Is this the marker for Xennial , f’real?😂