Full FeedOregon Trail on the go
Gameloft is teaming up with The Learning Company to remake and release Oregon Trail on cell phones. The game has had some new mini-games added to it, the graphics have been updated, music has been remixed and new npcs have been added. The game starts at $4 for some phones, but can be more expensive for others, and availability can be determined by texting “WAGON” to “82174.”
It seems like it has all of the classic Oregon Trail touches. There’s hunting, fording rivers, naming party members, choosing a career. Now the river fording is a mini-game like hunting, along with fishing, rafting and wagon repair. Also the wagon troop will encounter unsavory characters and hitchhikers and side missions have been added to the main trail traveling.
I hope they didn’t change too much. I adored the original Oregon Trail. I remember playing it in grade school on floppy disks. My favorite part was probably the hunting, and how sometimes squirrels would give more meat than buffalo. Watching family members develop various maladies was also entertaining.
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Ah, Jenni, we can relate. I remember how Oregon Trail and Sesame Street were the only games allowed at school…oh, how I cherished them…
I actually convinced my teacher to let me take Oregon Trail home, but it had a virus in it, or something, and I killed my computer >< my parents were so mad. xD
on June 13, 2008 at 02:32 PM - LINKAt mine there was Oregon Trail and this number muncher thing. You’d play as this monster who’d have to eat equations that would give the answer provided ahead of time. (As dorky as it was, I loved it. XD)
That sucks about your computer! My family didn’t get one until I was a sophmore in high school, so I never had that problem. I still can’t find a version of that original game though, and I wish I could.
Your parents shouldn’t have been mad! After all, you were ‘learning’. Well, trying to learn anyways. Besides - the original Oregon trail settlers got by without computers.
on June 13, 2008 at 02:38 PM - LINK