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There must have been multiple Star Trek games. This is the one I remember playing. Written by Mike Mayfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)


I have VERY fond memories of that game from 1986. My father who was teaching at a community college in Iowa had a copy of that game running on a VAX11. I recall that to play the game he had to walk to the data center and, inside a cabinet, physically unplug the cable for his terminal and plug it into another port. The connector on the cable looked like a large rectangular multi pin monster. Back at his desk, his green screen terminal was ready to play the game. I was 5, it was very awesome.


During college in 1976 I typed in Star Trek: APL using an IBM APL terminal with an APL Selectronic ball. I had a printout I think I paid $5 for and typed it character by character for some time (a couple weeks I think - this was my first experience with an APL hard copy terminal).

Boy I played that for a long time. Glad I didn't get billed for the paper I used. So much matrix math. 8-)




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