Oregon Trail Generation

English Alternative forms en Oregon Trail generation Etymology Coined in reference to the educational computer game The Oregon Trail (1985 video game) The Oregon Trail (1985) that members of the generation frequently played as children.Susan A. Fletcher, Exploring the History of Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures, page 229Sylvia Sierra, Millennials Talking Media: Creating Intertextual Identities in Everyday Conversation, page 139Melanie C. Ross, Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic, page 18 Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Oregon Trail Generation.wav US Proper noun en proper noun the Oregon Trail Generation en US A transitional microgeneration born from the mid- to late 1970s to the early to mid-1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood. en 2009 Rhonda Christensen Forward Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments https://www.google.com/books/edition/Digital_Simulations_for_Improving_Educat/Rm2qQ3oST2kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Oregon+Trail+generation%22&pg=PR19&printsec=frontcover xix Now our teacher candidates are almost 100% members of the Oregon Trail Generation. They answer email on their iPhones and play computer games on their cell phones when they are bored. en 2018 Kathleen Brooks Saving Shadows https://www.google.com/books/edition/Saving_Shadows/etdVDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Oregon+Trail+generation%22&pg=PT136&printsec=frontcover unnumbered "I'm thirty-four. I claim Oregon Trail generation.""What?" Ellery laughed outright. "There is no Oregon Trail generation." en 2021 Melanie C. Ross Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic https://www.google.com/books/edition/Evangelical_Worship/gXU-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Oregon+Trail+generation+was%22&pg=PA18&printsec=frontcover 18 Unlike the millennial generation that followed us— the “digital natives” who can never remember a time before computers—the Oregon Trail Generation grew up on the cusp of changes that transformed modern life. en See also en sandwich generation xennial References en Generations Video games