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).<p>This article was from 2013, and the link to the collection of Star Trek programs is broken, but it's archived here: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150303015501/http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20150303015501/http://www.dunning...</a><p>The link to the code for the specific version mentioned in this article is: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150215080553/http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/STTR1" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20150215080553/http://www.dunning...</a><p>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.<p>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).<p>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.