Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Name: Star trek
Developer: For-Play Manufacturing
Year: 1972
Simulation : Not Available/ 2 players.
Platform: Arcade


Shortly before Pong made waves around the country, a small company decided to try their hand at making video games and for their first project they made a clone of the first but not-so-successful coin-op game Computer Space. That clone was named Star Trek, by For-Play. The Star Trek name was not licensed to the company but in the early and mid-70’s it wasn’t uncommon to see game companies doing this (for example, Atari would create a Jaws game a couple of years later without any license).
For-Play’s Star Trek did change one thing from Computer Space though – it simplified the controls from several buttons down to a joystick. Otherwise it was the same game but it didn’t really capture anyone’s attention at the time and it would not be long after that that Atari would release Pong which then started the video game craze. It is interesting to note that this Star Trek game was technically the second coin-op video game and not Pong but it probably would have done a little better had they not just decided to rip-off Computer Space pixel for pixel. That said, I am not aware of anyone ever finding a working example of this machine in the wild so it is possible that it never got produced or it saw a very small production run.
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As always you can play game from here:
Well, not exactly… since this game it´s a clone, you can play the original computer space here:
https://www.masswerk.at/icss/
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More information:
allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/07/for-play-manufacturing.html
arcadeheroes.com/2009/04/02/a-history-of-star-trek-at-the-arcades
arcade-history.com/?n=star-trek&page=detail&id=3943
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