Moments in gaming history: MECC

Online publication SiliconUser has released an article on MECC, an old designer of Apple II Edutainment games. Many young adults who were children in the ’80s will remember some of the games they made: The Oregon Trail, Lemonade Stand, Number Munchers and Dinopark Tycoon, among many others. Oregon Trail is known by some to be one of the best edutainment games ever made.

MECC was formed by the state of Minnesota to create educational software. Its first version of The Oregon Trail, known simply as…