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c/startrek · by data1701d@startrek.website · 1y

Anyone here play the Super Star Trek terminal game?

I pick it up again every once in a while. I just had a slate of particularly miserable emeritus short losses, including one where 9 of the 13 Klingons left were in one sector. I was docked in a Starbase adjacent to that sector, and I could have sent an armed probe. Instead, to not get any more planet loss points, I decided, "I'm just gonna take em with phasers." I got killed immediately.

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ptz@dubvee.org · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No, but I just searched for it and am going to give it a try.

https://almy.us/sst.html

data1701d@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y

That's the one I prefer - the game's public domain and has many variants. It was a fan game originally written in BASIC for the PDP-11, I believe, and has been ported many times.

Corgana@startrek.website · 6 pts · 1y

Yes! But not in a very long time.

Wiz@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y

Not since about 1988. Thanks for the memory!

parapsyker@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I don't think so, but I do have very fond memories of playing a Trek game that I have not been able to identify despite quite a bit of searching.

Part of the problem was that I think my dad would get the game to a certain stage for me and then hand over the computer so I could fly around space and shoot things, so my memories are only of a very specific little bit of the game.

This would have been early to mid 90s, on a dual-boot machine, but I think I remember launching it in Linux?

If anybody has the faintest recollection of a 90s (or earlier) Trek game where you could fire phasers or photon torpedoes, and the photon torpedoes looked kind of like a pair of twinkling yellow stars, I would at least feel a little less crazy.

data1701d@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Maybe Netrek?

parapsyker@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y

Nah, 99% sure that it wasn't multiplayer.

Thanks for trying though!

usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I grew up with this variation on my C64. Good times. https://gaming.trekcore.com/startrekc64-1/

I've also come across this mashup with 25th Anniversary, which looks like great fun: https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th

data1701d@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y

I've seen that one before! 😁