23 mongols?! That's like, not enough mongols!!
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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I played the FUCK out of EGA Trek back in the day, man.
I miss video games back then. Yeah they were clunky and obtuse, but there was something about how we were still figuring out what games were and could do and how to play them that was so fun to be around.
EGA Trek fucking rocked.
We had it on the computer at school. Balder dash and scorched earth too.
Whoa! I forgot about Scorched Earth as well!!
This game was fire well into the 90s. And yeah, I L4z0r3d me a few vogons back in the day... pewpew
You did poetry a great service!
That's funny, because I was just looking at that game this past weekend. I keep looking for a shareware dos disk that had 3 versions on it.
One was the original text based version. The second one was called EGA Trek but it didn't look like this. It was full-screen. When you fired the phasers, there was a field that fluctuated around the ship you were firing at.
The 3rd game was called Vga Trek. It had nicer graphics and the ships glided across the screen. Also, the phasers were little red dashes that flew across the screen. And the torpedoes were little dots that did the same. If your short range sensors were damaged when you tried to dock at a starbase, it would cut to a screen where you had to guide the ship in manually to dock using a joystick.
Wish I could find those games again.
Edit: It was actually called CGA Trek.
I may have played this as a kid. It does look familiar. Then again, I could be remembering something that is just very similar. 🤷♂️
I played a similar game on a black & white compact Mac. I believe the game concepts dates back to the days of timeshared minicomputers.
"It's an older game, sir, but it still checks out."
My not-so nuanced joke lol
I had completely forgotten about this game until now. Ten year old me spent many a weekend figuring this one out. Great post.
Same here. Unexpected memories surfacing.
I spent countless hours playing this. I had completely forgotten about it as well.
Is 23 mongols a lot or a few in this game?
Holy shit yes.. Nostalgia unlocked.
Same here. And just a few days after I watched Coincident play Alley Cat out of nowhere.
Loved this game as a kid. Kinda miss it!
That above link lets you play in the browser! Relive the dream!
Not quite, but I played this variation of the same concept. Good times.
https://archive.org/details/commodore-64-star-trek-by-david-neale-1-file-version-by-mkm
Had a C-64 version of it. Not quite as many windows, larger grid. Same objective: bring peace to the galaxy. One photon torpedo at a time. :D
A friend had a game on their TRS-80, same concept, but zero Trek references.
I used to play the version with Klingons and Romulans. Fun times.
It's a little jarring to see "Mongols" in a "Trek" game now, though.
I remember playing this on a 286 on a green monochrome in hercules mode. Good times!
Same, except my monitor was amber.
I remember playing the text-based version on a Vax terminal in the early 80s. I wasn't very good at it.
I played Trek73 on Unix.
That looks very familiar....
I am sure I played this game exactly once. I didn't pay for it, so either it was copied from a friend or downloaded from a BBS or something like that. Either way, at the time, I didn't get it at all, and probably quickly switched it off to go play lode runner.
There was a colour version??
Initial version was in the 70s and black/white. The above was a re-release on DOS.
I watched vinesauce play this
This looks cool!
I played this for hours with my brother. The link above lets you play it in the browser.