'The Oregon Trail' Coming to iPhone (Screenshots)
posted February 9th, 2009 4:05 PM EST by arn in Featured, Retro, Upcoming Games
IGN posted some screenshots from the upcoming iPhone version of The Oregon Trail.
This classic game which was developed in the 1970s and later saw popularity in the 80s and 90s has been recently revived by Gameloft for mobile phones.
As Wikipedia describes it,
The Oregon Trail is an educational computer game developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by MECC in 1974. The game was inspired by the real-life Oregon Trail and was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley by way of the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848.
See screenshots of the Apple II and Mac versions of the game.
We presume Gameloft is bringing this title to the iPhone. No release date has been provided.
God I hope they keep the YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTARY!
Holy shit, I can't believe they are actually doing this game, I WANT TO HUNT ME SOME BUFFALO!
on IGN there is a screen shot that looks like a "collect coins as you ford the river" minigame…..I hope they haven't tried to add a ton of useless junk to what was a wonderful game on its own.
I want the original gameplay, Like Finch says, adding a bunch of mini-games, with an Oregon Trail theme won't make it Oregon Trail. Also I hope to see the option for the original graphics…
Hell yes, I remember growing up playing this game in elementary school lol. From the screen shots, it looks awesome.
Seems like I'm the only one, but I never enjoyed the original game. maybe I'll like this one more.
OMG this game was my entire childhood. I hope to see the same game with upscaled graphics and a few uses for the accelerometer. An "original graphics" option in the settings would really give me a nostalgia-factor
HELL YEAH. I'M SOOOO ESSSSITEDDD (watch ruby)
My life is complete.
Oh… ohhhhhh.
Very nice to hear.
I want the pure and complete original game, with the graphics in all their glory. I want the same everything. You don't always get what you want, but sometimes you get a load of **** that sells anyway because we all hope it will be something else.
After my first post I went and played through the original on Virtual Apple 2
http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html
Looking at the new screens again it bothers me even more that they went a cartoony minigame route. I guess its easier for mobile, but if I was going to have a graphical update to oregon trail i'd love to see a Crysis engine beautiful realistic 3D version.
BTW, my score was 3250, beat that suckers!
Graphics = big turn off.
mini-games = potentially big turn off.
I remember our old Macintosh LC had the best-ever version of Oregon Trail… I would love to see a port of that. Even the more old-school versions could be considered win. But that looks… ridiculous.
A good start, but would love to see the original graphics I grew up with and have grown to love.
If you're going to replace the graphics with goofy cartoons, not only do I want to die of dysentery, it better be animated.
Or better yet, just leave the game as it was. Don't fix what ain't broke.
You can still buy Orgeon Trail for OS X–or at least, you could 2 years ago when my sister got it. It has gone through many versions–so what people think of as the "original" game play may not even be the original.
It's not my thing, but I know it has its fans.
To be fair, it's not like the original -didn't- have mini-games. There's really no other name for the 'hunting' activity. Adding a few more of those wouldn't be the end of the world, so long as the strategy portion doesn't get lost in the shuffle.
Personally, I'd rather see them do a proper ground-up re-imagining and have someone else just port the classic.
I hope they also build a Wagon Train 1848 option that uses wifi– It was basically the networked "team version" of 1848 where players voted on when to move on, which route to take, to vote someone weak out of the train…
If it's anything like the one for mobile handsets, then I'm a little worried. That game was OK, but was filled with minigames and cartoon-y graphics. It looks like they're going the same way with this one. It lacked a certain appeal the old games had.
But I can also see how this could me amazing if implemented correctly. *crosses fingers*
I must have this game.