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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!

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!

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[–] • 2 pts

Later versions with graphics were pretty much the same game

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

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.

[–] • 2 pts

There were countless clones on various systems. Apple Trek was on the IIe. EGA Trek was on x86. Commodore, etc got their own versions.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yeah but I wanna try one now. It's okay someone else linked me - thanks!!

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Here's a javascript port of "Super Star Trek" that you can play in a browser:

http://darksummoning.com/trek/

[–] • 2 pts

Video display and printer display where identical except one was way slower than the other, haha.