Mike Mayfield’s Star Trek Game Revived

Michael Birken dug up and reworked Mike Mayfield’s 39 year old text-based Star Trek game.

When I was in high school back in the early 1980s, the library had some sort of DEC terminal hooked up to a modem that had a number of simple programs, with this Star Trek game being one of them. Now, we’re talking like 1982 or 1983 so there was no monitor — the terminal was literally a dot matrix printer and every time you would enter a command, the printer would print out the next “screen” (which was why it was in the terminal was in its own special room).

Star Trek, Adventure, Eliza…we spent many a lunch hour wasting paper that way.

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