Don Rawitsch
Moby ID: 580420
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Don Rawitsch is one of the three people who invented the game The Oregon Trail in 1971, together with Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger. At the time they were senior at Carleton College (MN) and training to be teachers. Rawitsch originally created the concept for the game because he wanted a game to help teach him about the Westward Movement in the mid-1800s. His partner math teachers knew about programming and they had access to a mainframe computer. Rawitsch then brought along the game to the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation (MECC) when he started work there in 1974. A team converted the game to a version with graphics, animation, pioneer tunes, and some memorable quotes a few years later when the Apple II hit the market. He no longer owns the rights to the game.
Credited on 3 games
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Organ Trail: Director's Cut (2013, Windows) | Special Thanks |
Organ Trail: Director's Cut (2012, Android) | Special Thanks |
Oregon (1971, Mainframe) | Written by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 2 games with Ian O'Dea
- 2 games with Joshua Erlandsen
- 2 games with Michael Sepcot
- 2 games with T. R. Fullhart
- 2 games with Phil Flickinger
- 2 games with Dondi Starkey
- 2 games with Scott Dykstra
- 2 games with Billy Young
- 2 games with Josh Elder
- 2 games with Gerald Lesan
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Companies
- 2 games with The Men Who Wear Many Hats LLC
- 2 games with Unity Technologies ApS
- 1 game with Humble Bundle, Inc.
- 1 game with MECC
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