Star Trek Borg & Star Trek Klingon

[Gingerbread Demon]

Both cost me about $10 from a 2nd hand shop.

Will these old games play on Windows 7 or 10?

I watched a youtube of Borg and it's just like I remembered it when I had Windows 95.

I gather the old version of Quicktime might cause issues so does anyone know of a way to run these?

Oh and don't say "virtual machine" I have no idea how to set that up properly..

 

[Kor]

How about Windows compatibility mode?

Kor

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

How about Windows compatibility mode?

Kor

I am not sure how that would work. Would the Qucktime install cause issues with Windows? Not sure if native Windows has QT support already so wondering if that would cause issues..

 

[Shark]

Star Trek: Borg

I've never played this but there is a full gameplay video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GvEDBHAld8 you'll notice many of the actors in it have appeared in Star Trek previously. I thought it looked a bit cheesy when it came out in '96 but it's actually pretty good! It's like another episode of Trek.

Spoilers if you've not seen it:

You'll notice that despite having been transported back to the battle of Wolf 359, the Uniforms are from DS9 and Voyager. A minor continuity error though.

I especially like the actor playing the counselor. I remember him as the Klingon from "The Chase". A very distinctive voice.

 

[daedalus5]

Try this:

http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=22097

And let us know! I've never tried it myself.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I shall let you guys know..

 

[daedalus5]

^^^^ OK, if it works, I will copy and paste it into the Windows 7 gaming thread.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I miss ST:Borg. Although to this day I can't remember how I managed to get past that scene where you have to work the turbolift control panel...total trial-and-error.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I miss ST:Borg. Although to this day I can't remember how I managed to get past that scene where you have to work the turbolift control panel...total trial-and-error.

OMG I hated that bit, and the bit where you had a row of Borg symbols and you had to guess the right one to end the scene. Failure was often a random video..

I did like the video where Q and everyone else walks off and you can clearly see it's a movie set. I mean they really went out of their way to have fun with this. I'd love to have seen the bloopers.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

^^^^ OK, if it works, I will copy and paste it into the Windows 7 gaming thread.

OK tried it..... Nada, no joy.

I am running Windows 10 Home 64 bit.

I thought the game had started but it was frozen on black screen so had to to a full restart as it had locked the PC up. Tried again same result. So no joy.

Of course everyone's systems are not the same. I could put this down to my system and whatever unique quirks it has. But that was my experience..

 

[RogueVasad]

I hated the bomb in Klingon with a passion by the time I figured it out. Borg was a lot of fun though. I'm still hoping GOG.com gets these and many other Star trek games.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I hated the bomb in Klingon with a passion by the time I figured it out. Borg was a lot of fun though. I'm still hoping GOG.com gets these and many other Star trek games.

I'd love to see these on GOG but tweaked a bit to run on current systems. I can't imagine they'd be hard to tweak.

Another old QT based game I liked was "In The 1st Degree" where you try to solve a murder....

Also liked

Under A Killing Moon
Myst

Oh and found The Journeyman Project on GOG

 

[RogueVasad]

Yeah I have most of the Tex Murphey games on GOG.com along with The Journeyman Project trilogy and Myst. I still want Klingon and Borg along with one of the various remakes or ports of the 70s Trek BASIC game, and many, many other Trek games.

 

[Corran Horn]

I miss ST:Borg. Although to this day I can't remember how I managed to get past that scene where you have to work the turbolift control panel...total trial-and-error.

I remember trying and failing to click that little bump on the underside of your phaser to change the modulation...