Tact Trek

published by Atari Program Exchange in 1982, developed by Atari, running on Atari 400/800

type: strategy
genre: Science Fiction, Tactical
series: Star Trek
perspective: other bird's-eye
player options: single player, shared-screen

languages: eng

Technical specs

software: Forth programming language,

display: _ (mixed), text, raster

Editor note

This game makes use of the Atari 8-bit's ability to mix graphics modes. Which is not unique. However, most games that do this divide the screen horizontally, so that graphics are on top and a 'text bar' on the bottom, or perhaps a text bar on top, or both. This game puts a graphics widows in the upper left corner of the screen. This requires switching modes halfway through each scanline. Not particularly impressive as this is an intended function for the platform. But this game shows good use of this feature.