Star Trek: Starship Creator. You could script your own missions for your ship to execute. It was pretty fun. I think I was in 8th grade. Anyway, I loved it so I took QBasic and then Pascal and the rest is history... now I'm just a smug Rails guy.

Playing devil's advocate here, but did it occur to anyone that maybe he downloaded it for the audio? A solid audio track can let the imagination run wild :)

Council Woman: So Steve, explain how this benefits the city people, please. Jobs: Sure! Our taxes keep your town afloat! Council Woman: Aight, enjoy your new spaceship.