Digital Wargame from 1973 Still Playable (!?)

[bayonetbrant]

http://empire.openmpe.com/empire/

Welcome to the game of Empire on the HPe3000. It is a wargame of strategy originally developed at the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington in 1973 on an HP2000C computer. It allows for up to 255 simultaneous players at any one time. The game is played using a terminal emulator with "Telnet" or "VT/Mgr" protocol

That game's nearly as old as I am.
Anyone know of any computer games still publicly live that are older?

[Staggerwing]

Hunt the Wumpus(1972-73)  is still around on many systems and has been ported to java.

[LongBlade]

Somewhere close to that time frame is a Star Trek game I saw at a local university. I have no idea what has happened to the code.

<quick google search>

Found this. Not sure it's the game I'm thinking of or not.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29

[LongBlade]

I think this is the game: http://www.almy.us/sst.html

[Toonces]

I got that Star Trek game for my Kindle Fire and it's just like I remember.

[MarkShot]

There is a whole set of Atari arcade games for iOS including the original Pong. That's pretty old!

[Nefaro]

Somewhere close to that time frame is a Star Trek game I saw at a local university. I have no idea what has happened to the code.

<quick google search>

Found this. Not sure it's the game I'm thinking of or not.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28text_game%29

One of my favorite old C64 games was an evolution of these games:

Star Fleet I: The War Begins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fleet_I:_The_War_Begins



I played the ever-lovin' shnit out of '86 release of that (IIRC the original was in '82).  I'd still buy something similar if there were a modern indie released like this, which still had all the bells & whistles (and more).  It was the best of it's kind as far as ASCII starship commander "sims" went.

I had an image copy of the DOS disk(s) awhile back, but couldn't get it to run in DOSbox.  :-[    Was very sad.  :-[ :-[   I never found any info on whether people had got it running and/or any specifics to do so in DOSbox.  If someone knows.. for the love of photon torpedoes, Tell Me!! :-*

[Nefaro]

Ha!  Now that I mentioned it, I went digging and found a working DOS version.  Ha!

[Rekim]

I came across this article today on an oldie (circa '62) called Spacewar!

http://pdp-1.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/index.php?f=theme&s=4&ss=3

It ran on a PDP-1 (sounds like there may be a working copy at the Computer History Museum), had a graphical display, and could even use a joystick as a controller (using recycled control sticks from fighter jets!!)