'70s Classic 'The Oregon Trail' Comes to the iPhone

February 25, 2009 | Alexandria, Virginia | Vetting explained

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If you’re a Gen-X’er and you’ve spent any time at all in a computer lab at school in the ’80s, you almost certainly have fond memories of one of the most popular educational computer games ever written: The Oregon Trail. > 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.Thanks to a commercial floppy release of the game in 1985, Apple IIs and PCs in every school across the land started hitching students to a wagon train blazing a trail out west. And the thing was, despite being an educational game, it was actually fun! Last year Gameloft brought this frontiering classic to mobile handsets and brought home the Best Casual Mobile Game of 2008 award. The Oregon Trail for mobile made it to the top 10 download lists for the Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T networks. And so it’s no wonder (as a Gen-X’er myself) that I was excited to see the first photos of Gameloft’s iPhone version of The Oregon Trail surface earlier this month. Mobile developer Gameloft will be releasing a totally revamped iPhone version early next week. Early this week I had a chance to visit Gameloft's Manhattan offices to discuss and have a look at this upcoming iPhone classic. Screenshots are shown. For the full preview story, see: http://toucharcade.com/2009/02/25/a-preview-of-the-classic-the-oregon-trail-from-gameloft/

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