Star Trek (script game)  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search  Star Trek was a text-based
mainframe computer game written by Don Daglow on a PDP-10
timesharing computer at Pomona College in 1972, and upgraded
periodically through 1974, including contributions by Jonathan
Osser. The game was picked up by the DECUS user group in 1972
and distributed to many universities and other PDP-10
installations around the world, often appearing on the same
systems alongside the Star Trek text game. Daglow only learned
of the game's publication when he began receiving fan letters at
his college dorm. The two Star Trek games were each among the
most popular mainframe computer games of the 1970s, which were
played for free on college systems.   The player began the game
by entering their own name (or, if they preferred, "Kirk") as
the name of the ship's captain. Spock would then declare that a
Klingon, Romulan or Tholian vessel had appeared on the
Enterprise's sensors, and announce its position.