Strange old Star Trek game...

[Exterus]

I found this odd little star trek game on a floppy disk just now. I haven't played it (it seemed a little to convoluted for my taste), but I thought it might interest y'all. But beware, it's old as hell.

 

http://www.reprobate.se/filer/spel/wintrek.zip

[THX1138]

this game was my fav in the day

[GhostShadow]

i dont understand how to play.... lol i will stick with ps2 games, lol.

 

[Mav]

Well at least it's not that bad. I remember when I was getting into Trek in general, TNG was coming towards a close and a few years later Generations came out. Anyway they had a few games based off that movie and I got the version for the original Gameboy. I think that was the worst Star Trek ever created. I'd seen Apple II games with more depth and playability ;p

[GhostShadow]

lmao, i remember that old game for gameboy, I DLed it and played it on my emulator.... that was a lame game... some one must have spent a whole 5 min creating it, lol

[Arktis]

What I used to love was the black and white Net Trek for the old mac SE classics we had in junior high. It was simple, but an excellent and popular network game at the time, 2nd only to Bolo which you could play on the newer macs with *color*. Damn I feel old. And it's only going to get worse as time goes on.

[bbbb]

I know how you feel. In my early high school days Jedi Knight, TIE Fighter and Star Wars Rebellion were all the craze. I get mocked sometimes for saying good things about Jedi Knight because of the old style graphics.

 

My first Star Trek game was called EGA Trek back in 1990-91. I played it on an old 386, 16 MHZ PC. Yes, that's right-16 MHZ! It could not even run Windows. This game was yet another remake of a very old classic Trek computer game. I play it occasionally since it was very well done despite the ASCII graphics. It was a good game, you played as the Captain of the Enterprise during a war with the Klingons. It's just you between the federation and the hordes of Klingon ships invading your quadrant of the galaxy. In this game you can set warp speeds, if you go past warp 8 you can actually damage the warp engines by excessive speed. This game was one of few games that actually used the warp engines as the primary propulsion system used in the game. You could use the impulse engines in a system but when at war, why not use the warp engines to move around a small area of space faster?

 

The weapons were just like in TOS but you only had 9 photon torpedoes to work with. All the terminology in the game was canon meaning you fought real Klingons with real phasers and photon torpedoes, not those crappy lasers, proton torpedoes and Mongols (how dare they change a perfectly good game just to make it copyright-friendly). This game required you to use your starship to the max, manage power settings and make hard choices unlike Bridge Commander where you just do what you're told and that's all. Captains make their own choices, not vice versa.

 

You can find EGA Trek on the web somewhere. It's really small but I don't know if it would work on Windows XP.

[usslacker]

I don't remember old ass games like that no offence but i do remember a old start trek game for the sega. I remember roaming around for hours in some mines. And you had to free some miners frum some cocoons. And get lost cause everything looks the same but it was entertaining at the time. You had lots of places to go and on you way you fought random battles with Klingon's romulans and i forget the name but the big ear aliens and moore. lol i remember walking around some ship finding parts to repair it and getting attacked by auto defences. old ass game wow