Stellar Track

{{Short description|1980 video game}}

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| developer = Atari, Inc.

| publisher = Sears

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| programmer = Rob Zdybel{{cite web |last1=Hague |first1=James |title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers |url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/#Z}}

| platforms = Atari 2600

| released = 1980

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Stellar Track is an Atari VCS (later the Atari 2600) video game programmed by Rob Zdybel of Atari, Inc. and published by Sears under the Tele-Games brand in 1980. It is one of three such games that were released only through Sears.{{cite web |title=Stellar Track |url=https://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/stellartrack/stellartrack.htm |website=AtariProtos}} Stellar Track is a text-based game based on the mainframe computer game Star Trek.

Plot

Stellar Track is a game in which the player is a commander of a warship and must destroy enough aliens before running out of stardates.

Reception

Richard A. Edwards reviewed Stellar Track in The Space Gamer No. 54.{{cite journal|last=Edwards |first=Richard A. |date=August 1982 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=54|pages=32}} Edwards commented that "Unless you're willing to pay a high price for a remake of an old standard, pass this one up."

Reviews

  • Joystik{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1983-01/page/n59/mode/2up | title=Joystik Magazine (January 1983) Volume 1 Number 4 | date=January 1983 }}

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