TITLE
Ben Hanson travels the roguelike Oregon Trail
AUTHOR
Kelsey Lewin
PUBLICATION
Video Game History Foundation’s Video Game History Hour
YEAR
2020
ARTICLE TYPE
Interview
Podcast
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FROM THE ARTICLE
Kelsey Lewin: So today we’re talking about a brand new documentary called Trailheads, covering the origin of the game Oregon Trail. And you said you’ve been working on this a pretty long time, right?Ben Hansen: Oh, my gosh, yeah… Way too long! It’s really an embarrassing story. [laughter] So I started this documentary about the Oregon Trail back when I worked at a community TV station in Roseville, Minnesota back in 2009, is when I started working on this thing. And then when there was a job opening at Game Informer as a video producer (their first video producer back in 2010), I quickly cobbled together a trailer of this documentary I was working on and showed it to them. And they’re like, “Wow, Oregon Trail! Look at this! This looks like a real documentary!” And so it’s the reason I got hired on at Game Informer, which I was then there for nine years.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
MECC
GAMES MENTIONED
The Oregon Trail
ALTERNATE LINK
Video Game History Foundation’s Video Game History Hour @ Spotify
SEE ALSO
Trailheads: The Oregon Trail’s Origins Documentary – MinnMax (2020)