Re: earliest commercial game?

[Bruce.Baker@juge.com (Bruce Baker)]

 >From: "Dain Neater" <dneater@inebraska.com>
 >Subject: Re: earliest commercial game?
 >Organization: A2GS
 >
 >This was AppleTrek I believe.  I used to play it all the time on my best
 >friends //e before I got mine of course.  When you started you were given a
 >mission and you could randomly set up the game or select for yourself the
 >number of starbases "B" Klingons "K".  I remember as a kid trying to figure
 >out how to move my ship and how to fire in a specified direction.  Believe
 >me I had no knowledge of angles at the time.
 >
 >In fact I think that game actually taught me a bit about angles.
 >
 >Dain Neater
 
Well, I think the version I saw was much before the //e.  This must have been a
][ or possibly a //+ but this game was like a 4k game.  The computer couldn't
have had more that 4k and only had a cassette I/O.

Bruce