Talk:Star Trek (1971 video game)/GA1

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Reviewer: Indrian (talk · contribs) 16:38, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am collecting too many of these I know, but I should have time to work through them in December. Indrian (talk) 16:38, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Busy month. Terribly sorry. Review coming very soon. Indrian (talk) 17:41, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, let's do this.

"which Mayfield ascribed to his limited computer knowledge being the most of the group" - Awkward phrasing.
"Mayfield began to program the game, continuing over the summer after graduating, creating a punched tape of the game at the end of each programming session and loading it back into the computer the next day" - This sentence feels awkward. The interjection about graduating breaks up the flow in an unnatural way.
"a fictional company he considered starting" - Awkward. You can't really have something that is both fictional but under consideration. It would be more accurate to say that Centerline Engineering was a name Mayfield created for a company he was considering creating but never actually did (though please find more concise language to convey all that in the article).
"The original Sigma 7 version was not saved." - This feels like a non sequitur. It should certainly be mentioned somewhere, but I think it can be integrated better.
"he also collected BASIC games and distributed them in the Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society newsletter" - This is incorrect. Ahl published an education-focused newsletter called Edu. DECUS was a separate organization from DEC that facilitated the dissemination of knowledge and programs to DEC users. Ahl published Star Trek in Edu.

I don't think you can talk about the legacy of the game without mentioning Star Raiders. Doug Neubauer was inspired to create it after having the Star Trek game described to him and watching other people play it (he never actually played it himself), and with its "Galactic Chart" and energy management system, its essentially a real-time adaption of the Mayfield/Leedom game.

Not much to fix here, so lets put this On hold as concerns are addressed. Indrian (talk) 18:12, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Indrian:, alright, fixed all of the above, I think. --Pres N 21:14, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]