https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Article on the original version: https://gamesnostalgia.com/story/182/rediscovering-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Article on the original version: >https://gamesnostalgia.com/story/182/rediscovering-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:37:50 -0700, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Heh, somebody took the classic ASCII Star Trek game and put it on top
of a Star Trek 25th Anniversary shell. Oh boy, are some lawyers gonna
have a field day! ;-)
I never was all that enthralled with either game, but then I was never
the biggest fan of classic Star Trek. I played the strategy game more,
just because it came first and I had less to compare it against. On
the other hand, I enjoyed the 25th Anniversary adventure game more,
simply because it had much better visuals (naturally, since it came
out 15 years after the other one) and better captured the feel of the original series. "Super Star Trek", even for its time, was extremely
limited in its scope. Honestly, after blasting two or three Klingon
ships, the game quickly lost its luster.
This version? Well, it's visually more appealing but the gameplay
isn't as enthralling; it's been streamlined in some ways and useful information (like damage status0 isn't as readily available. Still, I
suppose if you've never played Super Star Trek (or any of its 10,000
clones) this is possibly the best way to do it for a modern gamer. The cryptic ASCII displays probably won't appeal to many nowadays.
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Article on the original version: >https://gamesnostalgia.com/story/182/rediscovering-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game >http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:37:50 -0700, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Heh, somebody took the classic ASCII Star Trek game and put it on top
of a Star Trek 25th Anniversary shell. Oh boy, are some lawyers gonna
have a field day! ;-)
But Interplay is dead according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_Entertainment. So, who owns that game now?
:P
All I'm saying is that somewhere lawyers are grinning at the potential lawsuits. ;-)
On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:53:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:37:50 -0700, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Heh, somebody took the classic ASCII Star Trek game and put it on top
of a Star Trek 25th Anniversary shell. Oh boy, are some lawyers gonna
have a field day! ;-)
But Interplay is dead according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_Entertainment. So, who owns that game now?
:P
As a publishing company, yes. As a holder of IP rights, Interplay is
still surviving off a drip-feed of money coming from royalties and >copyrights. It's mostly a paper corporation but - unless I missed some
news on the topic - it still exists as a company.
Although I'm not sure if Interplay still possesses copyright to "25th >Anniversary", or if that's one that they sold off. Either way,
/somebody/ has rights to it, and Paramount probably might get a bit
miffed to see their product used this way too. So it might not be
Interplay, but somebody else.
All I'm saying is that somewhere lawyers are grinning at the potential >lawsuits. ;-)
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:37:50 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, rms wrote:
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Article on the original version: >https://gamesnostalgia.com/story/182/rediscovering-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game >http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
I actually had a wide format green-bar printout of the FORTRAN version of Super Star Trek sitting under my bed like it was porn for years.
What a childhood.
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Article on the original version: https://gamesnostalgia.com/story/182/rediscovering-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game http://emabolo.com/article/i-rewrote-the-1978-text-only-super-star-trek-game
On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:53:23 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:37:50 -0700, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
https://emabolo.itch.io/super-star-trek-25th
Heh, somebody took the classic ASCII Star Trek game and put it on top
of a Star Trek 25th Anniversary shell. Oh boy, are some lawyers gonna
have a field day! ;-)
But Interplay is dead according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_Entertainment. So, who owns that game now?
:P
As a publishing company, yes. As a holder of IP rights, Interplay is
still surviving off a drip-feed of money coming from royalties and copyrights. It's mostly a paper corporation but - unless I missed some
news on the topic - it still exists as a company.
Although I'm not sure if Interplay still possesses copyright to "25th Anniversary", or if that's one that they sold off. Either way,
/somebody/ has rights to it, and Paramount probably might get a bit
miffed to see their product used this way too. So it might not be
Interplay, but somebody else.
All I'm saying is that somewhere lawyers are grinning at the potential lawsuits. ;-)
On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 11:49:51 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
All I'm saying is that somewhere lawyers are grinning at the potential >>lawsuits. ;-)
For the voice acting at least. Those are actually Shatner and Nimoy, I
think.
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