Gameloft is teaming up with The Learning Company to remake and release Oregon Trail on cell phones. The game has had some new mini-games added to it, the graphics have been updated, music has been remixed and new npcs have been added. The game starts at $4 for some phones, but can be more expensive for others, and availability can be determined by texting “WAGON” to “82174.”

It seems like it has all of the classic Oregon Trail touches. There’s hunting, fording rivers, naming party members, choosing a career. Now the river fording is a mini-game like hunting, along with fishing, rafting and wagon repair. Also the wagon troop will encounter unsavory characters and hitchhikers and side missions have been added to the main trail traveling.

Online publication SiliconUser has released an article on MECC, an old designer of Apple II Edutainment games. Many young adults who were children in the ’80s will remember some of the games they made: The Oregon Trail, Lemonade Stand, Number Munchers and Dinopark Tycoon, among many others. Oregon Trail is known by some to be one of the best edutainment games ever made.

MECC was formed by the state of Minnesota to create educational software. Its first version of The Oregon Trail, known simply as…