In a wild west turn of events, a classic yet notoriously different computer-based educational game is being adapted into a movie. The Oregon Trail has been scooped up by Apple and being turned into an action/comedy musical, set in the same vein as 2023's Barbie. Originally created in 1971 by Don Rawitsch, an eighth-grade history teacher, as well as help from fellow teachers Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger, the game's purpose was to teach schoolchildren about the hardships, history, geography, and decision-making of the 19th-century Oregon Trail, a 2170-mile wagon route in the United States.