One of the creators of the iconic early videogame The Oregon Trail talks about the unexpected impact the game has had, not having made any money from it, and picks his favorite way to die in the game.
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One of the creators of the iconic early videogame The Oregon Trail talks about the unexpected impact the game has had, not having made any money from it, and picks his favorite way to die in the game.
"It only happened once every several hundred times, and so people could've played it for months and all of a sudden, 'What? I got bit by a snake and died? This has never happened to me before!'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-trail-movie-creator-bill-heinemann/
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@stefan I absolutely adore the idea of sitting there working on The Oregon Trail and thinking "of course people will will pay this hundreds of times over the course of months, what else would they possibly choose to do?" hahahaha
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@djsundog He knew his audience!
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[email protected]replied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
He and his two co-creators, Rawitsch and Paul Dillenberger, turned it over to the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium shortly after they invented it.
Heinemann says it doesn’t bother him.
“I didn’t do it for money,” he said. “I did it for just the love of the game and the love of teaching.”
I wish I could have that mentality.
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to [email protected] last edited by
@danc4498 Well, it is a huge privilege, for most people, to be able to generously share their work for free.
(I count myself incredibly lucky to be able to do that myself, even if the impact is nowhere near of this man and his fellow co-creators.)
