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This was an amazing post by Mischief HOT TAKES! 07/08/2020, 11:35pm PDT
Commander Tansin A. Darcos wrote:

Board game companies didn't get into electronic versions of their games usually until the PC became available in the 1980s or when they could do graphic versions under Windows.

This was often decades after programmers in schools started coding versions of these games to be played on the school's mainframe. I saw at least a couple versions of Monopoly, and practically every college had a version of Star Trek, where you had to shoot all the Klingons before a certain amount of time or the Enterprise is lost. Note, however, Star Trek, as far as I know, was never a board game.

Can you think of any "homebrew" versions of other board games that were developed privately and not as commercial works?


Board game companies did not start making games for computers, until consumers were able to own computers, some time within the narrow window of PC development between 1980-1995.

College mainframes, computers that existed before home PCs, had programs for them before home PCs, on account of home PCs not existing until decades after.

Note, however, that there has never been a Star Trek board game. A search for such yields absolutely nothing, and hobbyist will shrug their shoulders if asked.
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