“The Oregon Trail” card game is one of 50 Target-exclusive games it plans to release this fall, the company said. Eighties and '90s kids, “The Oregon Trail” is back — this time as a card game. “The Oregon Trail,” created in 1971, was a popular home and classroom computer game, despite the high odds of death by dysentery, typhoid or snakebite before completing the journey and winning the game. The Learning Co., a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which owns the license to “The Oregon Trail,” created a Facebook game in 2011. Some, like “Cards Against Humanity,” are from new, independent game brands, one of the highest-growth areas in game and puzzle sales, according to Euromonitor.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 01, 2016 19:28 UTC