I never got a chance to play the original on a PDP-1. But I did play this version in a roller skating rink in Alton. I was much better at this than I was at skating. I was especially blown away by the sun that you could choose to turn on and off that had a gravitational pull on the ships. I think the gravity also pulled the torpedoes fired from the Asteroids ship or the Enterprise. I played this before I played Asteroids, but I can't tell you who thought of vector triangle as ship first. And I don't know if the crew of the Enterprise was breaking Starfleet regulations by firing on a vector triangle.
One of my absolute faves. The ship damage aspect was awesome since you could have your engines knocked out and helplessly spiral "into bolvian."
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