Yeah I had to play all the ds9 games out of morbid curiosity a few years ago and the fallen is the only ds9 game that isn’t just good for a licensed game but good enough to play on its own merits
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These and the fps one were the only ones I had ever heard much about* so I thought they were all like that lol
This actual games sound much more interesting
*Oh also my grandma had a BASIC programming manual that iirc told you how to write a text based Star Trek game but I was never bored long enough to do it on her old computer. I may be getting this mixed up with just reading about a text based Star Trek game somewhere else. I think the most elaborate one I ever actually did from that book was a Russian roulette simulator that was probably like 10 lines of code max
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I will say that when I was growing up the only Star Trek games I ever saw in stores in great numbers were the FPS ones. I remember getting Away Team at Best Buy but there were like, two copies on the shelf and I doubt that game was a hot seller. I got my copy of Starfleet Command 2 and Orion Pirates at a rummage sale lol. All these games were current when I was a kid too. Bridge Commander was notoriously hard to find when it came out despite being widely praised
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my opinion of star trek games (as a concept) is colored by the fact that this is basically the only one i played as a kid
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Computer ! Locate high quality Star Trek games.
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thanks for the thread title mavis beacon teaches myspace
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oh boy now I have a place to dump all the star trek game shit I’ve been sitting on for the past week!!!
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Hell yeah
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I hope the first Star Trek media I was exposed to isn’t lost media. It was a B&W Macintosh game, with a split up screen like Might and Magic. I remember you could warp around to different space stations, had limited photon torpedoes, and your ship had the silhouette of the TOS Enterprise. I’m sure it was unlicensed, but haven’t found it on any list of unlicensed Star Trek games.
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omg i am blasted back to the past with mention of starship creator. thats probably the star trek game i played the second most as a kid. i mostly messed around with building ships. i did missions too but i dont remember being very successful or knowing what i was doing.
the one i played the most was starfleet academy on the snes. it had a vs mode that my brother and i would play often that was at like… 10 fps lol. i always thought that what people were talking about until i was older and saw how different the pc version was and realized thats what everyone was talking about. likely better too.
the star trek experience at the hilton was a key childhood memory!!! there wasnt ever a big line so we went on the ride several times in a row. i was so excited to be on the bridge and juzt be IN star trek. i never saw ds9 before (my dad did not like the show) so seeing quark in person at our table and taking his picture with my game boy camera was my first introduction. i dont remember what he said or what i ate though.
i vaguely remember there was a star trek game on the xbox 360 that had you control different ships for space combay. it had some storyline reason to have all the captains crossover or something. i remember playing it a lot but not really enjoying it. my strongest memory is the size of the planets were small compared to the ships and youd just bounce off of them.
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pretty sure this is STAR TREK LEGACY which is mostly notable for introducing some cool ship designs like the Proxima and being I think the only star trek game where all the captains do voice acting. also I think the only star trek game that has extensive Enterprise stuff in it that isn’t about the temporal cold war
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I love the presentation of the cutscenes in armada 1. they got rid of this style to do more typical in-level rts cutscenes in 2 but it rocks. like a star trek game with fallout talking heads we never got
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the only star trek ‘video’ game I’ve actually played is Star Trek The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game
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I’ve played a bunch of Star Trek games and I don’t think I’d say any of them are particularly good. I do like that Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis lets you take the Kobayashi Maru test. Nobody has made my ideal Star Trek game yet where it’s just some really chill low-stakes kind of thing. Like having to troubleshoot a problem with the warp core, or some mundane xenobotany away mission, where you’re just hanging out with your buddies. The bits in Elite Force where you walk around Voyager are probably the closest to what I mean.
Sometimes I like to pretend that System Shock 2 is a Star Trek game. If you kinda squint, the levels look like something out of Voyager or DS9. I can’t even think of any other games where you’re on a space ship and there’s carpet.
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did that also have jonathan frakes like the gargoyles interactive vcr board game
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i’d be shocked if it isn’t already in my MacPack
maybe this one - “Trek…Revisited” from 1988?
i think that one is based on an earlier DOS fangame (i saw one iteration under the name “super star trek” from 1982), and there are other variants for other micros as well
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EGA trek certainly looks closer to what I remember, since it had multiple star bases you could visit. Figuring out where I had to go and what I had to do when I got there was where I got stuck on the game.
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if you can’t find it in one of my spreadsheets then i guess it could actually be lost media. if it isn’t trek…revisited, it’s probably one of the others of its ilk, maybe “star trek plus” or something. my collection of B&W-era game software for Macintosh is rather comprehensive, i really would be shocked if the game is available on the internet but not in my pack
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