Star Trek 25th Anniversary $ Judgement Rights

[msbae]

PC 25th Anniversary was my favorite Trek game ever. It got the whole "exploration, conversation, wonderment" thing down cold, whereas nearly every game since has revolved around combat, which just doesn't quite work.

Gameboy 25th Anniversary was the first video game I ever owned on the first video game system I ever owned... and it was ridiculously hard to beat. :P Never did get past the third beamdown...

Enter 1336.5 as the Stardate in the continue menu to go to the 4th map with 3 ships. If you have the Game Genie for the Game Boy enter these codes for the following effects:

Infinite Ships

006-E8B-19E

Infinite Torpedoes

007-02B-19E

Don't say I never did anything for you.

- msbae

P.S. This game is hard as Hell. It took 3 years to finally get to and defeat the Doomsday Machine. Why has there never been another Doomsday Machine story in the canon? That thing was awesome!

 

[donners22]

Awesome games. I played the enhanced CD versions (complete with Gene Roddenberry interview on one) on my Mac in the early 90s. It was a little frustrating at times - most notably one point where you had to phaser a particular part of a door - and the combat wasn't always great, but the writing and delivery were brilliant.

 

[Kirk1980]

Oh, hearing those guys together again was excellent, excellent fun.

Unfortunately, they're the kind of games that without a walkthrough...would piss me off because some of the puzzles are just kinda...well, completely nonintuitive, to me anyway.

 

[Oso Blanco]

Any advice on how to run those games on an XP PC? It just doesn't work!

 

[donners22]

Any advice on how to run those games on an XP PC? It just doesn't work!

Have you tried DOSbox?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Dosbox or VDMS will get all those old Dos game running on XP......i prefer VDMS because it comes with a GUI.

 

[Oso Blanco]

DoxBox didn't work, I'm gonna try VDMS when I have the time ... thanks for the advice!

 

[Deks]

I think these games require modification of DosBox to work properly.
I was able to get them run under XP without too much issues, but didn't actually play for very long.
Issues of course exist, but I do think they will be ironed out in later versions.

 

[donners22]

I can still play them in Mac form, thankfully.

 

[Jefferies]

For the people having trouble launching these old games with dosbox, try using it in combination with D-Fend. This is a GUI based application that runs dosbox for you and saves the settings so you don't have to set it up every time you start the game.

 

[Scout101]

I'm using Dosbox and DOG, and working my way through Judgement Rites right now. Took a little tweaking to work, and the voices never showed up, but i get text and music/fx, so close enough.

Fun game, although sometimes the things you get points for don't really come up as things that you'd think to do on your own, so it's kinda odd that way.

Definitely wish there was a new Trek-themed game of this sort. Imagine basically Knights of the Old Republic, just with Trek background, and you'd have a hell of a game!

 

[Caretaker]

I never could beat the original game. That final ship-to-ship combat sequence was difficult.

 

[26138]

I never could beat the original game. That final ship-to-ship combat sequence was difficult.

Was that in 25th Anniversary? I could never beat the final ship-to-ship combat either.

 

[Guartho]

Yeah, that's as far as my brother and I got too.

 

[swaaye]

IThe NES version was a pain in the ass if you didn't have the appropriate issue of Nintendo Power.

I went thru the game with that issue of the mag. Never touched the game again after that. That was a long, long time ago...


I actually have the PC version set up in DOSBOX right now and have beat the first couple episodes. It is by far the best of the 3 25th games.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Gameboy 25th Anniversary was the first video game I ever owned on the first video game system I ever owned... and it was ridiculously hard to beat. :P Never did get past the third beamdown...

Oh, God...if this is the game I THINK it is (and I suspect it is by the description), it WAS ridiculously hard. The ship-to-ship combat was damn near impossible.

Not to mention it was...kinda lacking in coherent plot.

 

[Corran Horn]

IThe NES version was a pain in the ass if you didn't have the appropriate issue of Nintendo Power.

I went thru the game with that issue of the mag.

No doubt. I think that issue was basically a walkthrough...it was the cover story too, IIRC.

btw, Shatner's voiceover work in JR is horrible. Flat, flat, flat.

 

[donners22]

JR is the one with the emotion stones, right? I thought Shatner was okay in that, and also when he goes nuts about yet another alien test.

 

[Jeyl]

Oh, 25th and JR. Two great games made back in the day when keeping track of the instruction manual actually was crucial! I HATED it when I brought those two games with me on trips only to find out that I had to improvise every bloody star selection just to find out where to go. "We're off course Captain!" indeed.

Oh, my favorite experience with the whole thing has to be the moment near the very end of the game. Kirk and the Klingon captain are in the very last test where they need to decide which captain leaves and which one stays. The correct option is none leave, but I wanted Kirk to be a douche bag. So after talking some strategy with the klingon, I decide to randomly and gratuitously pull my 'red marked' phaser on him. The moment I click on him, the klingon shouts "Kirk! You backstabbing......" and boom! Disintegrated. Kirk did this right in front of the Aliens who were testing him and they say he hasn't earned the right to make contact with the species. He even has the guts to tell the Aliens "This may have been a mistake" in regards to their test methods. Ya Kirk! You didn't pull your phaser on that Klingon in cold blood! I loved that moment.