somegadgetguy ,

Oh man. As a little kid I burned a LOT of time on the old DOS trek.exe.

https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/9d9a0feb-ca4c-41db-ac40-af4d148ce247.png

Also still fire up Armada from time to time. With all the new ship classes in Online, I’d love to see an Armada 3.

RotaryKeyboard ,
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Is this a PC port of the 1971 Star Trek game?

someguy3 ,

Star Trek Catan. Gonna be playing that on the holidays.

averyminya ,

I remember a Star Trek MMO that I think was web based, but it may have been a preference I downloaded.

Anyway, I remember really wanting to like it but I was partly too young and the game either had a lot of locked content or needed to be paid. I think I gave it a couple hours total in the front room and never played it again.

Would have been 2003-2008 I think

charonn0 ,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

Who else played Star Trek: Armada?

daryl ,
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@charonn0 @ValueSubtracted oh yes! Played Armada 2 more, especially modded.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

HELLS YEAH! That game was my JAM

I was pretty young when I was introduced to star trek, and it started out with only the movies. I loved C&C Red Alert, so my parents got Armada for my dad and I to play, and I think I put in a good 1,000 hours into it before my dad even tried it out.

I played that game so much I think by the time I got a new computer I was giving myself ridiculous challenges to beat the computer opponents like scout class offense ships only, or “once superweapon ships are unlocked only use those no matter the price” or “no expanding the base”

eluvatar ,

So many hours, 1 and 2. Plus loads of mods.

jaycifer ,

Shoutout to the ST: Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire. I didn’t play the originals but the mod is really impressive.

ijon_the_human ,

I spent so much time with STO when it first came out. Sadly feature creep ruined it for me as time went by. I played a couple of hours recently though and enjoyed the nostalgia a lot!

I probably still have my pre-order t-shirt somewhere…

ijon_the_human ,

I spent so much time with STO when it first came out. Sadly feature creep ruined it for me as time went by. I played a couple of hours recently though and enjoyed the nostalgia a lot!

I probably still have my pre-order t-shirt somewhere…

ijon_the_human ,

I spent so much time with STO when it first came out. Sadly feature creep ruined it for me as time went by. I played a couple of hours recently though and enjoyed the nostalgia a lot!

I probably still have my pre-order t-shirt somewhere…

marlowe221 ,

How is it that no one has mentioned the Star Trek Starfleet Command series???

Starfleet Command Orion Pirates is a fantastic game and one of my favorites of all time!

Munrock ,
@Munrock@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I remember that!

Is it still playable anywhere?

CCMan1701A ,

I’ve spent may hours playing the following:

Judgment Rites Starfleet Academy: PC –with lost missions expansion Star Trek 25th anniversary (Gameboy and NES versions) Star Trek Armada

Less popular games:

Star Trek Starship Creator Star Trek deep space nine the fallen A few Star Trek games on the c64, but I don’t remember the names as my brothers would load those up. Lol

Basilisk ,

I really enjoyed Starfleet Academy for the SNES. It wasn’t particularly difficult or long, but there was enough interaction with your “crew” outside of space combat that it felt pretty well-rounded, especially for a SNES game.

BradleyUffner ,

I have fond memories of trying to fly my ship into the sun and just kind of bouncing off of it.

CCMan1701A ,

The PC version of this game was my preferred version. Especially network play.

Olgratin_Magmatoe , (edited )

Star Trek: Tactical Assault for the DS

I was absolutely trash at it, but I loved it. And to be honest, I thought it was just a very hard game to begin with. There is only so much you can do to manage your shields, weapons, and position before the ship becomes overwhelmed.

The graphics and animations were solid too.

https://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/747/747276/star-trek-tactical-assault-20061121071251892.jpg?fit=bounds&width=1280&height=720

hamburglar26 ,

I loved this one but always get stuck at a certain point. I think it was similar to one of the Pc games that controlled similarly and I never got passed a certain mission on that one either so I may just suck at those games.

Olgratin_Magmatoe ,

I think this game intentionally went with the “make it impossibly hard to draw out play time” philosophy.

Which has it’s benefits and drawbacks. Overall I think the game was better for it though.

hamburglar26 ,

I’m sure if I had played it when I was 14 or something I would have figured it out.

jmcs ,

I wouldn’t call it underappreciated since it was well received in its time, but Star Trek: Judgment Rites was amazing.

I wish there would be more narrative focused Star Trek games like that. Either a Disco Elysium style non-combat focused RPG or a modern adventure game.

zaphodb2002 ,

A Disco Elysium style Trek game would be killer. Make me make ethical decisions about other species, decide if I want to be a Starfleet or a Maquis, and make awkward conversation with my superior officer that gets me reassigned to Delta Shift cleaning the Holodecks, and seriously reconsider my life.

Acamon ,

How do you think it would hold up for someone who didn’t play back in the day?

hamburglar26 ,

It is a 90s point and click adventure, having played this and the original 25th anniversary one recently I think it holds up well.

One thing that is nice about Judgement Rites is you can skip the ship battles if they aren’t your thing. They are fun but can but super frustrating.

Also check out A Final Unity which is newer with the TNG cast but I think still really looks great and the entire cast voiced the characters so it is almost like a mini season of the show.

jmcs ,

It depends on how familiar you are with old point and click games. If you aren’t used to them, it can be quite frustrating, but even then I think it would be enjoyable if you use a guide to unblock yourself when you get stuck.

CeruleanRuin ,

At the very least, the music is great and the writing is full of great jokes and also some pretty compelling sci-fi scenarios that would have fit perfectly in the series. If point and click adventure games aren’t your speed, find a walkthrough (theynarent hard to find online) and refer to it whenever you’re stuck.

Someology ,
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I really enjoyed Star Trek: Klingon, on PC back in the day. It was officer cultural sensitivity holodeck training for the officer exchange program. You had to make decisions appropriate to Klingon social customs. It was bundled with a Klingon language learning program with speech recognition tech. Very cool stuff for 1996 CD-ROM games.

CeruleanRuin ,

I had that one! There was a Borg game in the same vein, but it wasn’t nearly as entertaining.

e_t_ Admin ,

I got a copy of Star Trek: Rebel Universe many years ago at a thrift shop. It came on both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Star Trek: Legacy. I found a copy on eBay awhile back and got it running. Really fun go team up with AI against the Borg while defending DS9.

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