Anybody else tried the 1971 Super Star Trek BASIC text game?

[Deacon]

I downloaded it last night, it seems pretty fun if you can get past the text game-style. It plays really well if you learn the commands, and feels like you're really the captain of the Enterprise. Any of the older Trekkies here remember playing these Star Trek games when they were coming out?

 

[Blamo]

This game came out before my time, but I remember playing it on and off throughout my life.
It is a pretty good game for what it is and a nice window into Trek fanon pre-TMP.

 

[publiusr]

I miss the old arcade games
http://www.skooldays.com/images/ag1137.jpg

I barely remember this one hhttp://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/07/for-play-manufacturing.html

The bronze age
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9771

 

[Deacon]

This game came out before my time, but I remember playing it on and off throughout my life.
It is a pretty good game for what it is and a nice window into Trek fanon pre-TMP.

Came out before my time as well, it's been a nice transition into text games for me. They use practically zero resources and they download in a second.

 

[StarCruiser]

If you are talking about this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)

Abso-frackin-lutely...

Played that thing to death around 1980-ish. My high-school had a computer class with - get this for kicks...

Digital Equipment Corporation printer terminals - connected through 150-ish baud audio-coupler modems to a 7 million dollar time-share near NASA (this was in the Houston area).

That time-share had said game installed for years and quite a few of us nerds played it excessively (had the entire program printed out on fan-fold paper at one point).

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I love this game!

What I would love to find in an early 1980s version for BASICA/GW-BASICA on MS-DOS where you could abandon the Enterprise and take command of the Fairie Queen and it would spit out Marcus Aurelius quotations. That was the version I played in high school, and I was really fond of it. But I've had no luck finding the source code for it.

 

[Noname Given]

If you are talking about this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)

Abso-frackin-lutely...

Played that thing to death around 1980-ish. My high-school had a computer class with - get this for kicks...

Digital Equipment Corporation printer terminals - connected through 150-ish baud audio-coupler modems to a 7 million dollar time-share near NASA (this was in the Houston area).

That time-share had said game installed for years and quite a few of us nerds played it excessively (had the entire program printed out on fan-fold paper at one point).

^^^
This WAS the game (I first played it back in 1975 - I was 12 in Junior High - and we had a room with a full blown HP Teletype unit dialing into an HP 2000 Mainframe that had the game via a 110 Baud - not k-baud, just baud - modem - took 2+ minutes to print out an 8X8 'short range scan'); that got me interested in computers and computer programming; and provided me with the career I've made my living with ever since.

 

[JRoss]

I wrote the rough draft of a board game based on it. It doesn't have any actual Star Trek references though

 

[CaptainStoner]

I played what I think was a later version of the same game called EGATrek. 16 colors baby!

 

[StarCruiser]

EGATrek - was a variant. There were a few created in the 1980's and 1990's. I think there was a downloadable version hanging around somewhere...and here it is:

http://www.flightsim.com/arcanum/egatrek.htm

Not sure if it works on anything even vaguely modern...