“Starfleet Orion” and “invasion Orion”. Hot-seat 2-player and solitaire, respectively, written for the TRS-80 in basic so should adapt to other “dumb” terminal displays reasonably easily.
2-d movement, enter orders then stand back to see how the turn plays out. You get to design your own starships, given a cost system, or they had several scenarios you could play. Wow, there’s a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfleet_Orion Don’t know what it would take to make it playable at two different terminals, but should not be impossible…. - Mark On Oct 10, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> wrote: >> Find better games :) >> >> The theme of this list means that I should recommend some retro games and >> gaming systems... > > I am actively seeking lists of favorite games on all platforms prior > to 1995. Specifically, things that require Windows and a Pentium and > newer are out of bounds. I'm attempting to breathe some excitement > into a retro-gaming meetup I hold a few times a year at our > hackerspace. I'm already bringing the hardware - to date, Commodore > PET, Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 2600, PDP-8 (emulated for now), and > curses-based UNIX games, and would like to add more platforms. I'm > especially interested in any favorites that run on dumb terminals (I > have numerous ones to bring in, and have a VT220 already in the > collection). > > Yes, I know a bunch of games that run on those platforms. I'm looking > for other people's favorites because that is what will stimulate > interest in the meetups. I already bring my own favorites, but > learning what other people remember fondly - tapping into their > nostalgia - will be a big help. > > In bounds are any machines from the 70s and 80s that a) are common > enough to lay hands on or b) have a reasonable emulator on modern > platforms. I will probably add DOS games to the list, but that's not > the focus at first - 8-bit microcomputers and minicomputers are at the > top of the list. Emulation via simh is acceptable but I'll try to dig > up the original hardware where possible. > > If you've played anything in the past 3 years, I'd especially like to > hear about it since that speaks to enjoyment and replayability. If > you like it, someone here will probably like it too. > > Thanks for any and all suggestions! > > -ethan
