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Oregon Trail mobile updates a classic

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 17th 2008 10:22AM

Mobile games developer Gameloft recently spoke with 1Up about its remake of the elementary school computer room classic, The Oregon Trail. Gameloft's VP of Production Julien Fournials says the game stays true to the core gameplay, but some of the micro-management is out to make it "more accessible to the casual player." Wow, we had no idea The Oregon Trail was a hardcore game?!

Fournials explains that buying specific items at the shop is out, along with other resource management, to keep players moving. New additions are mini-games, more decision making, events, alternate routes and being able to watch your party die off one by one. Yeah, but can we name the youngest kid after the elementary school bully (like we did back then) and starve him to death ... or better yet, have him die of cholera?

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Tags: gameloft, mobile, the-oregon-trail

Reader Comments (25)

Awesome! That game was unbelievable back in the day. I don't remember much micro-management, but I guess "buying specific items" could count as that. I think I'm going to go shoot a bear for some food...

For those wanting to play it again, here it is on a Virtual Apple:

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Be sure to click on "Insert Disk 1." :-)

That's hilarious. Virtual Apple only works on Windows. It tells me to run Boot Camp or Parallels.

XD

Gameloft? Can we expect a tricked out mobile to NDS release as well? XBLA Maybe?

One can only hope.

What's the point of playing Oregon Trail if you can't buy stuff at the shop? That was the whole damn point!

Ah, this brings me back to first grade.

It'd be cool if they included the original version with the new mobile version.

Complete failure! Other than the hunting, they're taking out everything that made this game memorable!

/is playing this in another window
/wants on DS

Please?

I would just like to correct that they were likely talking in regards to the many newer versions of Oregon Trail and not the original when he talked about simplifying the game, and especially the "specific items at the store" line.

In the more recent games there were specific foodstuffs, equipment, clothing, etc. They probably made it more like the older game where it was x pounds of food and x pounds of clothing.

was this a US thing?

I've heard about this all over the internet for years, but I've never heard anyone in the UK mention it ever.

Personally, I spend all my computer classes playing Elite and Repton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repton_%28computer_game%29

Considering the entire game is about a part of American history, and was installed in every classroom in the USA in the 1980s-1990s, no, it's probably not big outside of the United States.

Just like how in the United States nobody plays the hugely popular Chinese edutainment game "Crush the Tienanmen Rebels."

It must have been, I've never heard about this game nor does it sound the least bit interesting.

@chez: Do you love locking Sims in doorless rooms without toilets and watching them die? Are you 8 years old?

If you said yes to either, you'll love Oregon Trail.

If you can post on the internet then you've already gone beyond the age of playing The Sims.

It's all about going at a grueling pace with bare bones to eat.

and all in a a bare bones package apparently.

seriously, micro management was the whole point of this game it thought. how much food should i buy? will it be enough? should i stay out and hunt longer? has the kid i named after the person i hate died yet?

I'm only interested if my family members can still die of dysentery.

hehe I remember that, I always died of dysentery :(

As long as I can still drown my oxen, I'm happy

You're a monster. A horrible monster...and so am I. >.>

I, sadly, will buy this game. Oregon trail was the only fun part of grade school.

"The river is 5 inches deep. Attempt to ford it or take a ferry?"

*chooses to ford*

*SPLASH*

"All your oxen drowned, your wife died, your kids got malaria, three axles broke, and thieves stole all your food."

lol @ Extra Cheese

that pretty much sums up the entire game. it was so frustrating but so addicting at the same time. i honestly think i never finished a complete journey. i remember i got close once but never actually beat it. maybe i should download it and try again sometime.

I'd buy it...

You know what? I'd buy this for XBLA - if they made it HiDef and added achievements.

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