Is anyone else out there old enough to remember the old Star Trek games which flourished on earlier personal and mainframe conputers in the mid-to-late seventies? The object of most of these games was to command the Enterprise in its mission to destroy a Klingon ship before they destroyed you. When your ship ran low on power, you could replinish it by finding a starbase and docking at it. While most of these were written in basic, I played one as a kid in the late seventies that was a little more sophisticated and featured realtime combat and action. It was called Trek-80. I'm probably the only one who remembers this game, but it was the forerunner of the current Star Trek Star Fleet Academy games.

Yeah, I played them. I could never get past "novice" level.

Also, on vintage games, anyone remember the original Microsoft Olympic Decathalon? It ran on the original PC under DOS 1.x?

There was also an Apple ][ version.

Sorry if this sounds like spam, but there's a great site devoted to vintage computer games that were not very popular but are of good quality. I found Microsoft Decathalon there, Scott. They also offer downloads of most of the games listed.

http:\www.theunderdogs.org

I think I remember an old ST arcade game. All I can seem to remember is the Enterprise shown from the top, looking sort of either like an ASCII version, or similiar to the original Battlezone (now that was a fun game!), and it rotated and moved around and shot torpedoes at other ships or something, not unlike Asteroids. Or is my memory fuzzy on that? That's what I seem to remember.

I also remember the first SW arcade game, where you're an X-Wing pilot and in the center of the screen was a reticule that you had to center TIE fighters in and then when you shot them four beams appeared from each corner all at once.

My other favorite SW arcade game was years later, Return of the Jedi, in which you pilot a skycycle thru the Endor forest, trying to avoid Empire goons on other skycycles and getting squished between logs that Ewoks push together or rolled towards you. Then, you come to a Walker with Chewie in it. I forget the whole thing but the end of the level was when you pilot the Millenium Falcon thru the Death Star, avoiding TIE fighters (which wasn't too hard to do) to blow up the reactor at the middle, and then getting outta there as fast as you could, as the explosion was coming up behind you. If you made it then the Death Star blew up behind you and you moved to the next level, which was basically the same thing but I think a bit harder. I forget how far I'd gotten in the game but it was really fun.

BTW, that address above should be http://www.theunderdogs.org

FYI, go to www.classicgaming.com to find some of these old games.

Does anyone remember the text-based pc game Star Trek: The Promethian Prophecy? I was never able to solve it, as I never could find the proper phrase to type in to give the violet gem to the right guy. Anyone remember this?