Star Trek (arcade game)

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title= Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator


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developer= Sega
publisher= Sega
designer= Sam Palahnuk
released= 1982
genre= Multi-directional shooter
modes= Single Player
platforms= Arcade
input= Dial, 4 Buttons
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arcade system= Sega G80 Vector hardware [ System16.com. " [http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=686&page=1#1783 Game hardware page] ". Retrieved August 5, 2006. ]
display= Vector, 224 x 256 pixels (Horizontal), 256 colors

"Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator" is an arcade game based on the original "" television program, and released by Sega in 1982. It is a vector game, with both two dimensional and three dimensional displays. The player controls the Starship Enterprise, and must defend sectors from invading Klingon ships.

Game play

The game makes use of painstakingly synthesized speech, since memory costs at the time made the use of sampled audio almost prohibitive.

Unlike most arcade games of the time, the player is presented with multiple views of the playfield, and only one ship per credit. Throughout the game, survival depends on the player's ability to accumulate shields. These are rewarded by either docking with starbases or saving them from destruction at the hands of the Klingons.

The control system for "Star Trek" employed the use of a weighted spinner for ship heading control, while a series of buttons allowed the player to activate the impulse engines, warp engines, phasers, and photon torpedoes. The warp button was deliberately placed farther away from the rest of the buttons, in order to force the player to reach for them in heated battle.

Ports

"Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator" was ported to most of the contemporary computers and consoles of the era; namely Commodore 64, TI-99/4A, the Atari 8-bit family and Atari 5200 in 1983, Tandy Color Computer in 1984 (as "Space Wrek"), the Atari 2600, Commodore VIC-20, ColecoVision and the Apple II.

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External links

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