The first multiplayer Startrek game - "Trek 7" on VMS circa 1979
I believe the first multiplayer (turn based) trek game was called 'trek 7' - it was written in fortran for VMS by a student at the university of western ontario named Donald Ecclestone." - it was a fun game that could support multplayer games of up to 4 players (2 federation and 2 klingon). You could also play against computer generated enemies whose behaviour was based on that of their respective star trek episodes (i.e. gorn, orions). You could even fight moonbase alpha for fun!
it was pretty complex for a mainframe game in '79. You could lay mines, board ships, transfer power from engines to phasers and such. Incredibly engaging (especially for a little kid growing up in the department).
It was ported to run on open vms and linux on sourceforge. Check it out!
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