Mobile games developer Gameloft has released its updated version of The Oregon Trail. The game costs $4 (or more, depending on your carrier) and introduces several new gameplay elements to the elementary school classic.
The game now includes five skill-based mini-games, side-missions and random events like bandits. Of course, everyone's favorite gameplay elements like hunting and random outbreaks of disease are still included. Oh yes, Mary will contract diphtheria. A demo is available on the Gameloft site to try before you buy.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 3:06PM darkinchworm said
Nah, Joystiq comments fail at supporting less-than symbols.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 5:30PM (Unverified) said
I swear dysentery has to be programed to hand out dysentery 3 times more than any other death. I'm always dying of it.
Oh and I wish I was clever enough to make a cool Chuck Norris Oregon Trail joke.
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Oh and I wish I was clever enough to make a cool Chuck Norris Oregon Trail joke.
Posted: Jun 11th 2008 2:53PM ehisforadam said
WTF is up with the wanna be Japanese RPG character designs? That's enough to kill it for me.
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Posted: Jun 12th 2008 5:25PM (Unverified) said
Agreed - they ruined it with these crazy ass graphics. Now get off my lawn you damn kids.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 3:00PM (Unverified) said
This brings back great memories, I recall in the forth grade where me and my friends would just hunt buffalo all day. O and the river rapids was a treat.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 5:41PM (Unverified) said
Fourth grade.
"Forth" grade would imply something about striding forward with grades rather than a whole number between three and five.
/end lesson
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"Forth" grade would imply something about striding forward with grades rather than a whole number between three and five.
/end lesson
Posted: Jun 11th 2008 6:57PM (Unverified) said
Why is it 'fourth', but forty is spelled forty and not fourty?
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 3:02PM baby sea tuna said
This is bullshit. My phone doesn't get any good games. Not MGS, not this. All I get is fucking Cake Mania or some crappy licensed junk. Bah.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 4:05PM WiNGSPANTT from TopTierTacticsco said
Actually Cake Mania is not that bad.
And try Tornado Mania. It is the best cell phone game ever. 10/10 from IGN Mobile as well.
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And try Tornado Mania. It is the best cell phone game ever. 10/10 from IGN Mobile as well.
Posted: Jun 11th 2008 3:19PM (Unverified) said
I can't wait to attempt to ford the river and die in the process.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 5:50PM (Unverified) said
I grew up in Oregon so I always assumed as a child that Oregon Trail was specific to our state; that no other students in the U.S. enjoyed the massacre of grueling paces and barebones meals.
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Posted: Jun 11th 2008 6:33PM (Unverified) said
Ahh Mecc, from number munching to allowing kids to shoot animals in school. The late 70's and 80s was a different time... Mecc was the publisher of the games btw for those who don't remember or those too young, it was the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium later Corporation... ahh good times, and if you all want to play the original Oregon Trail along with a bunch of other Apple IIe and Apple IIGS games, head on over virtualapple.org ...
They have all the classics and you can play them online with a special plug-in for Firefox and I.E.... The catch and irony is that the plug-in only works for the moment works on Windows, but they are supposedly working on a Mac version. You can get the disk images to use with an emulator however, anyway enjoy...
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They have all the classics and you can play them online with a special plug-in for Firefox and I.E.... The catch and irony is that the plug-in only works for the moment works on Windows, but they are supposedly working on a Mac version. You can get the disk images to use with an emulator however, anyway enjoy...
Posted: Jun 12th 2008 6:44PM (Unverified) said
LOL I remember in 3rd grade, if we got our work done early we could play Oregon Trail on the one computer in the class :P I think it may have been the first computer game I ever played :)
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