The Yukon Trail

The Yukon Trail
The Yukon Trail
Cover art
Developer(s)MECC
Publisher(s)MECC
Designer(s)MECC
Platform(s)Windows 3.x, Macintosh
Release
Genre(s)Simulation, educational, strategy
Mode(s)Single-player

The Yukon Trail is a 1994 educational computer game from the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), similar to their previous Oregon Trail series but set during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 19th century. Players start out in Seattle and must make decisions concerning supplies, a partner, and travel plans as they head to Alaska before boating down a river to Dawson City and staking a claim to mine for gold.[1] The game features the famous author Jack London[2] and authentic 19th-century photographs that show what life was like back then.[3]

  1. ^ Scisco, Peter (December 1994). "1994 Holiday Gift Guide". PC Magazine. Vol. 13, no. 21. Ziff Davis. p. 492.
  2. ^ Trinkle, Dennis A.; Merriman, Scott A. (2001). History.edu: Essays on Teaching with Technology. M.E. Sharpe. p. 195.
  3. ^ Shannon, L. R. (1995-02-28). "PERIPHERALS; Gold Rush, Gunplay, Geography". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-18.