Author Archives: Dean Jones

Super Star Trek is the first major enhancement of the 1971 Star Trek game. This makes the game much easier to decipher, with some information…

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The first commercially released Star Trek game. Not only was this not officially licensed, but it’s also a clone of another arcade game called Computer…

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A much lesser known Star Trek mainframe game, written in a form of BASIC used by the CDC 6000. Wikipedia credits Don Daglow with this.…

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The first Star Trek video game, made for the Sigma 7 and then ported to the HP 2000C minicomputer. These were devices that had no…

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Fizzbin is a poker-like card came that Captain Kirk created on the spot to confuse some mob bosses. Each player gets six cards, except for…

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The first Star Trek boardgame, which I have recreated in Tabletop Simulator. If it wasn’t from the box design and the name on the board,…

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Unfortunately, this game is a bit of a mess. The quality of the main campaign is all over the place, with some levels being extremely…

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Monkey Island is back (again)! I really like what they did with this one, with similar style of puzzles and lots of great dialogue (I…

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A really fun choose-your-own adventure where you have to make it around the world in 80 days. It’s based heavily on the bizarre and wonderful…

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A time loop first person shooter. The combat is really fun, which makes any repeated segments still fun, with different abilities and weapons to try…

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