Tag: OREGONTRAIL

Until now, we've treated Facebook games like the plagues they are, and have avoided them at all costs. But that might be hard to continue next month when both 'The Oregon Trail' and 'Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego?' debut on the social networking site.The Learning Company is publishing both educational titles -- 'Oregon Trail' landing on February 2nd, and 'Carmen' on the 9th -- both of ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. You know how -- after a long night, spent quaffing down synthehol cocktails with your 'World of Warcraft' "online girlfriend" and thumbing through your favorite sci-fi ...

There is no denying that the '80s were the hey day of educational video games. We can't even count the number of hours we spent sitting in front of our IBM PCs, Apple IIs, and TRS-80s playing 'Oregon Trail,' 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego,' and 'Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.' The Educational Games Research Blog has compiled a list of its top 10 educational games from the '80s, and we're ...