- Original Release: 1995
- Developer: Novotrade
- Publisher: Playmates
- Platform: SNES, Mega Drive
This Deep Space Nine game for the Super Nintendo and Mega Drive is a 2D platformer. There’s lots of running, jumping as well as shooting Bajorans, Cardassians and….bats, the ultimate “we can’t think of anything else” enemy type used in many licensed games of this era.
Like many of those games, this one isn’t very good. It has nice graphics and some really great music (although it really doesn’t fit the game), the levels are just confusing mazes with some backtracking to get keys, rooms and doors that look similar and some even have time limits. The story itself is decent, with a group of Bajoran extremists trying to destroy DS9, and they even create a story reason to jump into Sisko’s traumatic past (that said, it is a bit of a weak reason).
At the start of each chapter, you need to investigate around DS9, you get to explore the promenade and ops and talk to the characters. These parts of the game are great. It’s a shame that the game wasn’t more of a mystery and puzzle with a bit of platforming and shooting in between, instead of the opposite way around.
In previous write-ups, I’ve treated different versions as different games, but the differences here are much smaller. The biggest difference is the music. While the rocking tunes of the Mega Drive version don’t fit, the music is just as jarring in the SNES version but also sound awful. You can also shoot diagonally downwards, so there’s a small extra bit at the start of the Bajoran level where you shoot some rats.
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There are two levels, that I don’t like in this game. Level one: You have to out-jump and out-platform the explosion from the generator. Level two: Odo tries to navigate through the cardassian ship. The other levels are quite okay. Although: the Wolf 359-Level is my favourite.
I remember renting this and having no got danged clue what the game wanted from me. Licensed games in that era were a trip.
Tried both versions of this game and just can’t enjoy it.
I remember enjoying the TNG game as a kid. The Generations game was good too.
Best Star Trek game by a country mile is Birth of the Federation
The one nice thing about this game (at least the SNES version, never played the Gen version) is that it had a stage select in the menu so you could just skip to whatever stage and play. Wish some other games from that era had that!
saw this at sgdq last year. So weird to see DS9 turned into an action platformer.