Digital storefront GOG.COM and Activision are celebrating 55 years of Star Trek by bringing some of its most iconic and critically acclaimed video games back and updated to work on modern operating systems.
It’s a perfect opportunity for both devoted Trekkies and new players to discover and enjoy these amazing titles, as every game on this list offers a different experience and the chance to meet some of the most beloved characters. Six classic Star Trek games now available on the GOG.COM store include:
- Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force – a first-person shooter set onboard the USS Voyager where you must take on some of the most dangerous special missions.
- Star Trek: Elite Force II – a stunning sequel set on Enterprise-E where you get your orders from Captain Jean-Luc Picard himself!
- Star Trek: Hidden Evil – a third-person adventure game with both Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner reprising their roles as Captain Picard and Lt. Cmdr. Data.
- Star Trek: Away Team – an isometric turn-based tactical game influenced by titles like Commandos and the X-Com series.
- Star Trek: Starfleet Command III – a simulation game with RPG elements where you can customize your starship and lead it into space battles.
- Star Trek: Bridge Commander – a space combat simulation game that sits you in an actual captain’s chair with a crew waiting for your orders.
Cutter wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 11:36:I only liked its space battle parts. I never cared about adventure games. I played it and its sequel, Judgement Rites, on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC.
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary was great. Never played any of the others...that I can recall.
WannaLogAlready wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 23:26:
Real abandonware are games not being sold after many years with no known prospect of being published again.
It's not freeware.
There are dozens of old games not published again for each game rescued from oblivion.
Sometimes not having tried a game as abandonware may make the difference in not buying it if/when it luckily goes on sale again.
If they re-publish a game you got as abandonware and finished it, then buy it, as I do.
I'll not forsake the opportunity of playing a new to me, or lost loved old game.
Let all that talent and work and art be lost in time ?. No, shoot me.
Reactor wrote on Sep 9, 2021, 05:18:Rest assured Reactor, your point is perfectly clear and respectable, kudos.
Pretty sure my definition wasn't perfect - it was meant for people with a functioning brain that could understand the point.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 9, 2021, 04:28:Reactor wrote on Sep 9, 2021, 02:26:
Whatever term you want to slap on it, and for whatever justification you want to have, downloading software that wasn't freely available at the time of release is just another form of piracy.
So...The Ur-Quan Masters, which is available today to download, is pirated content because it wasn't "freely available at the time of release"?
How about older games whose publishers and/or developers are long out of business? Whom, exactly, is being stolen from? And applications suffering the same state? Again, whom exactly is being stolen from?
Hmm...by that logic, virtual machines are piracy, too, because they can be used to emulate firmware and BIOS code that is long, long out of production and unsupported. Emulators, too, for now defunct hardware.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 9, 2021, 04:28:Copyright law says lifetime of the author + 70 years for something made by a single person while "work for hire" (ie. anything released by a company) last 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation (whichever expires first) unless explicitly relinquished.
How about older games whose publishers and/or developers are long out of business? Whom, exactly, is being stolen from? And applications suffering the same state? Again, whom exactly is being stolen from?
Hmm...by that logic, virtual machines are piracy, too, because they can be used to emulate firmware and BIOS code that is long, long out of production and unsupported. Emulators, too, for now defunct hardware.The simple version: Code can be copyrighted, chips and hardware can be patented, instruction sets have no protection. VMs and emulators do not copy the software or hardware, but rather implement a way to interpret the instruction set.
Reactor wrote on Sep 9, 2021, 02:26:
Whatever term you want to slap on it, and for whatever justification you want to have, downloading software that wasn't freely available at the time of release is just another form of piracy.
WannaLogAlready wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 21:13:aka_STEVE wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 14:10:Last year they were at MyAbandonware, maybe other ST games too.
Elite force 1& 2 were great fun - but getting me to pay $10 each for a replay seems a tad steep..
Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 16:30:Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 14:45:Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 12:10:
SFC 3 but not 1 or 2?
No Starfleet Academy?
When you have questions about an article, it's usually helpful to open the link. (SFC 1 and 2 are both "Coming Soon" and Starfleet Academy has been available for some time.)
Pffft. Who reads the article?
Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 14:45:Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 12:10:
SFC 3 but not 1 or 2?
No Starfleet Academy?
When you have questions about an article, it's usually helpful to open the link. (SFC 1 and 2 are both "Coming Soon" and Starfleet Academy has been available for some time.)
Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 8, 2021, 12:10:
SFC 3 but not 1 or 2?
No Starfleet Academy?
As for Bridge Commander, the fan modded "Maximum Warp Edition" is absolutely the definitive version.