Hollywood studios are clearly doing their best to stay away from any video games, and apparently the next “Oregon Trail” movie is on the way. It may have been forgotten by the wider gaming audience these days, but it’s hard to deny that the original Oregon Trail was an iconic game. Literally everyone who played ...
Acclaimed video game The Oregon Trial is getting the action comedy treatment from Apple. Oregon Trail will be directed and produced by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, with Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul providing original music and production. The film script is signed by The Lucas Bros. and ...
I don’t know how old you are, but I’ll admit that in my case I had to look to the encyclopedia to find out what I’m up to. It was 1974 when the Minnesota Computer Education Consortium (eye) decided to produce a game that mixed arcade with graphic adventure. A cocktail that we could now ...
The Oregon Trail is one of Gameloft‘s most successful mobile games. It’s actually a “modern twist” of a version of the game that released decades ago. In fact, Gameloft calls this version an “official successor to the global phenomenon”. However, this version of the game has been mainly for Apple Arcade and mobile devices. That ...
illustration: Angelica Alzona In 1991 in my first year class, I pulled a chair up to an Apple II and inserted a disk with a faded, frayed label: The Oregon Trail. I didn’t know how to play. I didn’t even know what one Oregon Trail was. Even so, I was instantly hooked – and I ...
