Citations:Oregon Trail Generation

Proper noun: "a transitional microgeneration born from the late 1970s to the early-to-mid 1980s"

 * 2009, Rhonda Christensen, "Forward", in Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments, page 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.
 * 2017, Hannah L. Ubl, Lisa X. Walden, & Debra Arbit, Managing Millennials for Dummies, page 271:
 * However, if you have a card catalog of a brain (see what we did there?), then file these tips away when it comes to the Oregon Trail generation:
 * 2018, Eric Atcheson, Oregon Trail Theology: The Frontier Millennial Christians Face—and How We're Ready, unnumbered page:
 * If I could communicate one of the most basic truths that I believe informs the actions of both the historical Oregon Trail generation and the modern-day Oregon Trail generation, it is this: new economies necessitate new communities.
 * 2018, Kathleen Brooks, Saving Shadows, unnumbered page:
 * "I'm thirty-four. I claim Oregon Trail generation."
 * "What?" Ellery laughed outright. "There is no Oregon Trail generation."
 * 2019, Lindsey Pollak, The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace, unnumbered page:
 * This is where another name for this micro-generation—the “'Oregon Trail generation”—comes in, recalling the bare-bones computer game released in 1985 that Xennials often played.
 * 2019, 100 Questions and Answers About Gen X Plus 100 Questions and Answers About Millennials, unnumbered page:
 * Some label this cohort, born between 1977 and 1985, as the Oregon Trail Generation after an early video game.
 * 2020, James T. Jarc & Jonathan P. Jarc, "Teaching with transformation technology: building a postheroic ethos in leadership education", in Handbook of Teaching with Technology in Management, Leadership, and Business (eds. Danielle K. Allen, Kim Gower, & Stuart Allen), page 117:
 * The “Oregon Trail generation” (Garvey 2015) was among the first to experience a curriculum that included computers.
 * 2021, Olivia Blacke, Killer Content, page 62:
 * Andre had been born in those fuzzy years, too late to be Gen X and too early to be a Millennial–a Xennial? Oregon Trail Generation?
 * 2021, Bromleigh McCleneghan, "Introduction: Molly, My Kids, and Me", in When Kids Ask Hard Questions Volume 2: More Faith-filled Responses for Tough Topics (eds. Karen Ware Jackson & Bromleigh McCleneghan), page x:
 * My little microcosm of a generation, for example, is known as the “Oregon Trail generation” after a computer game we played in school, in which we tried to ford rivers on pixelated rafts and frequently “died” of dysentery or cholera (like Kirsten's friend!) on days when we couldn't go out to play on the playground.
 * 2021, Melanie C. Ross, Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic, page 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.
 * 2021, Uncanny Magazine, March/April 2021, page 177:
 * Born in 1982, I fall between the cracks between Generation X and Millennials, what Anna Garvey named the “Oregon Trail Generation.”
 * 2021, Claire Vaye Watkins, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, page 88:
 * After a time, Rust said, "That's typical Oregon Trail Generation."
 * 2021, Melissa Vosen Callens, Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in Stranger Things and 1980s Film, unnumbered page:
 * In addition, the Oregon Trail Generation (Garvey), named after a 1970s video game played in classrooms across the country, has also been informally used to describe people born on the latter cusp of Gen X.
 * 2022, Alexandra "Xan" C. H. Nowakowski, "Forward: Bridging Generational Gaps in Higher Education: Perspectives from an 'Old Millennial'", in The Changing Faces of Higher Education: From Boomers to Millennials (eds Anisah Bagasra, Lacey J. Ritter, & Mitchell B. Mackinem), unnumbered pages vii-viii:
 * Years before Internet bloggers dubbed my specific birth cohort of Millennials the “Oregon Trail Generation”, I vented my frustrations about the physical ravages of CF through various "you have died of dysentery" memes.
 * 2022, Jennifer Powell McNutt, "Partnering with Pastors: How Early Modern Printers Advanced the Reformation", in Technē: Christian Visions of Technology (Gerald Hiestand & Todd A. Wilson), page 221:
 * If there truly is such a thing, it has come to my attention that I am part of the “Xennial” generation also known as the “Oregon Trail Generation”—a microgeneration between Gen X and the Millennials bridging the generational paradigm shifts of technology today thanks to an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.