Star Trek: Starship Tactical Combat Simulator
This is a very heavy and detailed tactical board game. I barely managed to scrape by with the tutorial scenario, and there are a lot more rules that get introduced afterwards. While it’s not something I look for in board games, the amount…
Star Trek III: Kobayashi Maru
This is part of a pack of three solitaire games in one. I was expecting three very simplistic games, but was very wrong – these games are quite hefty indeed, to the point that I decided they were worth their own article each.…
Star Trek: The Invasion of Klingon Empire
The first heavy wargame set in the Star Trek universe. This game was only released in Japan and has extremely complex rules. There is a list of missions that seem to take inspiration from TV show, visiting planets mentioned in episodes. Where to…
Star Trek 3.5
This is another version of the 1971 Star Trek game. This adds a lot more visualisation, a larger galaxy and more types of areas to encounter. The Enterprise and Klingons now look like ships, and the game displays a list of actions each…
Super Star Trek
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 given via dialogue from the crew, and generally making everything much easier to visualise and making actions easier…
Star Trek (1971, Mike Mayfield)
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 screens, but were instead connected to a printer and printed the new game game as you played. This…