The first Star Trek computer game I ever played was on our High School main frame computer. No video display, all output was on a huge noisy dot matrix printer. We created punch cards to input our next moves. Getting the punch cards right and feeding them in in the correct order was extremely important. It was usually a group of us, the teacher let us loose, we were obviously fully involved in using the computer. Good times!
Ever play VGA planets?
I think you might like it.
What's wrong with CGA?
Well. It wasn't written until VGA was a thing
My MX100 made quite a few banners.
I enjoyed the story. Pretty big Next Generation fan here, had no idea there is a Startrek forum on here.
>had no idea there is a Startrek forum on here. >>
How is this possible..?
Later versions with graphics were pretty much the same game
hey I had a harry-potter esque childhood, would you mind hitting me with the name of these games so I could give them a try in my modern age? maybe I can even run it on my phone or some shit via an emu. Awfully curious to see if it matches a star trek game I touched as a kid on a computer once and never found again in my adulthood.
There were countless clones on various systems. Apple Trek was on the IIe. EGA Trek was on x86. Commodore, etc got their own versions.
Yeah but I wanna try one now. It's okay someone else linked me - thanks!!
Here's a javascript port of "Super Star Trek" that you can play in a browser:
Thank you kindly!!!
Video display and printer display where identical except one was way slower than the other, haha.
The Dot Matrix should be the prequel to the Matrix.
Title said "dating myself". I though maybe we'd have something in common, but nope.
Funny anecdote. I designed my wife’s wedding ring based on the Enterprise symbol here in this text based UNIX game <*>. My future MIL worked at a jeweler. She insisted I help design her daughters ring. I had no idea. But I saw garnets shaped like triangles and realized diamond = asterisk? Whoa, I placed the stones and my future MIL was thrilled. It was beautiful, a work of art! But I was thinking NCC-1701! Anywhoo, being married to her was awful, we divorced. She kept the ring, I never told her the story of the design because I never wanted to speak to her again. She should have returned the ring out of honor. She didn’t, not because she had no honor, ((she had none) but because it was and still is a great ring. I designed it, kind of, thanks UNIX Star Trek game. Like then, I still have no idea what I’m doing, but it’s going well.
![I’m dating myself, but we eagerly awaited the dot matrix output to see the outcome and plan our next move. [689x583 - 68KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/6aSxGQ.jpg){kind=link}
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