Star Trek: The original computer game

Wow, I remember playing this game in 1973, on a teletype terminal hooked up to an HP 2000. I was a kid just starting to learn BASIC at the time, and the fact that someone could write a program like this really impressed me. I spent quite a while poring over that code (one nice thing about BASIC is that you can just type "LIST" and see the code).

This article was from 2013, and the link to the collection of Star Trek programs is broken, but it's archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20150303015501/http://www.dunning...

The link to the code for the specific version mentioned in this article is: http://web.archive.org/web/20150215080553/http://www.dunning...

Also, note that this article has two pages; scroll past the survey at the bottom of the first page to see the link to the next page.

This was probably my first computer game — this or Cave. Both of which I played on a terminal tied to a mainframe. I have no idea which mainframe. I was probably 7 or 8 making 1977 or 1978.

I never was able to get past the first troll in Cave bit Star Trek. Man I played for hours and hours. A few years later I played again on our first PC (in between writing my own horse race probably predictor).

I love that game!

I played this on an ICL minicomputer system in the late 80s. I also remember there being Hamurabi and a horse racing game. I think the programs where written in BASIC.