I have a standup version in my home office.
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983)
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I have a standup version in my home office.
Makes my Atari 2600 version seem less impressive now.
I have a standup version in my home office.
I am sorry, but the rules are very clear, anybody with a cabinet version of this game has to post it to any member of the TrekBBS games forum that is or has...........( i will quote for the forum's Faq on the rules)......
A: Scottish.
B: Has some kind of food in their online name.
C: Has any form of Space 1999 avatar.
D: Joined on December 27, 2002( must have had old account lost when the old TrekBBs thing moved).
E. Must live in Glasgow.
I am sorry, but those are the rules, i did not make them,
.......So please PM for my address and when you can have it delivered, and if there is any spare room can you sqeeze in a few Star Trek pinball machines, nothing fancy, any of the TOS will do....thanks. 
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I miss this game, I remember I heard 'Welcome Aboard Captain' in Nimoy's voice, and my head swiveled like Regan in the Exorcist! I played it every chance I could, the sitdown version, I didn't 'feel' like a Captain standing up lol. There's a guy near me that can take a tabletop arcade game shell and put 50+ games into and decorate the outside with repro graphics for about $1250. I'm taking donations. 
The review in the August 1983 issue of Electronic Games said that "Star Trek is sure to be a top-grosser in the arcades this year. If you can squeeze through the crowd around the machine, you may never want to leave."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(arcade_game)
The review in the August 1983 issue of Electronic Games said that "Star Trek is sure to be a top-grosser in the arcades this year. If you can squeeze through the crowd around the machine, you may never want to leave."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(arcade_game)
I have a long history with these. Played the upright and sit-down versions back in the day, the last time in an arcade being around 1987 after the (sit-down) one in the basement of the Rutgers College Student Center disappeared (much to my horror). Had the Atari 400/800 computer version as well back in high school, nowhere near as fun. And I've played a fairly accurate emulator version on my PC, but it's just not the same without the arcade controls. Almost had a guy build me a bartop version last year, but that would have been a "pre-build" type deal, and having been burnt on one of those deals by a fellow board member
...never again.
Back in 2003; I found one on Ebay that was pretty close to home. I think I paid $500 for it. I sold it just a few years later when I turned 40 and thought perhaps it was time to grow up and "put away childish things". But I started lamenting the sale not long afterwards, and looked on and off for another for nearly all of the intervening years. I'd seen a few working examples for sale in that time that almost fit the bill, but there was always some catch (too ratty, too pricey, too far away). Mine was an upright based on the Sega "convert-a-cab" system, but many were conversions based on other games (like Asteroids), and wasn't looking for one of those. Even saw a sit down version offered within 50 miles of me on Craigslist last year, but those take up way too much space.
Back in 2003, the game was 20 years old, and not too easy to find in working condition, esp. within a reasonable drive. Now they are 35 years old, and MUCH harder to find in working (not to mention nice cosmetic) condition. But a couple weeks back, the guy I sold mine to called me out of the blue to tell me he was downsizing and had to sell it. He had it overhauled several years back, and assured me it was in tip-top condition. The price was...a bit more than I had sold it to him for (but he was willing to deliver).
When I sold the game, the guy who bought it from me asked why I was selling it. I reminded him of what Spock told Stonn in Amok Time about having not always being "so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting". He in turn reminded me of that this afternoon and asked me if I still believed it to be true. I told him "not in this case". Regardless, it is now back where it belongs, and I am a very happy, though apparently still childish, aging Trekkie. Gonna try to hold onto it for a bit longer this time.
Sorry for writing a novel here, but it's kinda surreal to have it back and I am, for lack of a better word, stoked.
...never again.Back in 2003; I found one on Ebay that was pretty close to home. I think I paid $500 for it. I sold it just a few years later when I turned 40 and thought perhaps it was time to grow up and "put away childish things". But I started lamenting the sale not long afterwards, and looked on and off for another for nearly all of the intervening years. I'd seen a few working examples for sale in that time that almost fit the bill, but there was always some catch (too ratty, too pricey, too far away). Mine was an upright based on the Sega "convert-a-cab" system, but many were conversions based on other games (like Asteroids), and wasn't looking for one of those. Even saw a sit down version offered within 50 miles of me on Craigslist last year, but those take up way too much space.
Back in 2003, the game was 20 years old, and not too easy to find in working condition, esp. within a reasonable drive. Now they are 35 years old, and MUCH harder to find in working (not to mention nice cosmetic) condition. But a couple weeks back, the guy I sold mine to called me out of the blue to tell me he was downsizing and had to sell it. He had it overhauled several years back, and assured me it was in tip-top condition. The price was...a bit more than I had sold it to him for (but he was willing to deliver
).When I sold the game, the guy who bought it from me asked why I was selling it. I reminded him of what Spock told Stonn in Amok Time about having not always being "so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting". He in turn reminded me of that this afternoon and asked me if I still believed it to be true. I told him "not in this case". Regardless, it is now back where it belongs, and I am a very happy, though apparently still childish, aging Trekkie. Gonna try to hold onto it for a bit longer this time.
Sorry for writing a novel here, but it's kinda surreal to have it back and I am, for lack of a better word, stoked.
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Well, it's true, one nice thing about the sit down version is...um...you get to SIT DOWN!
Was def. in the "wayback machine" today, read through the entire thread and saw a question about whether any of the original cast were known to interact with this game, and seem to recall in late 1982 an episode of Entertainment Tonight that featured a story with George Takei at a release party for the game in full WOK style uniform. I only would have seen it the one time, and 35+ years ago at that, so it's a bit fuzzy in my mind, but I'd be willing to bet it happened.
Was def. in the "wayback machine" today, read through the entire thread and saw a question about whether any of the original cast were known to interact with this game, and seem to recall in late 1982 an episode of Entertainment Tonight that featured a story with George Takei at a release party for the game in full WOK style uniform. I only would have seen it the one time, and 35+ years ago at that, so it's a bit fuzzy in my mind, but I'd be willing to bet it happened.
I'm to young to have played this, but it looks like it must have been pretty awesome for it's time. Just give it some updated graphics, and tweak the gameplay a bit, and it looks like it could be pretty awesome today.
I just went to a Dave and Busters a month ago, and if they had a Trek game like this there, I probably wouldn't have touched anything else the entire time I was there.
I just went to a Dave and Busters a month ago, and if they had a Trek game like this there, I probably wouldn't have touched anything else the entire time I was there.
This is very good news indeed, and i'm assume you have read the offical rules posted further up in this thread on owning one of these cabinets, i await you PM.I have a long history with these. Played the upright and sit-down versions back in the day, the last time in an arcade being around 1987 after the (sit-down) one in the basement of the Rutgers College Student Center disappeared (much to my horror). Had the Atari 400/800 computer version as well back in high school, nowhere near as fun. And I've played a fairly accurate emulator version on my PC, but it's just not the same without the arcade controls. Almost had a guy build me a bartop version last year, but that would have been a "pre-build" type deal, and having been burnt on one of those deals by a fellow board member
Back in 2003; I found one on Ebay that was pretty close to home. I think I paid $500 for it. I sold it just a few years later when I turned 40 and thought perhaps it was time to grow up and "put away childish things". But I started lamenting the sale not long afterwards, and looked on and off for another for nearly all of the intervening years. I'd seen a few working examples for sale in that time that almost fit the bill, but there was always some catch (too ratty, too pricey, too far away). Mine was an upright based on the Sega "convert-a-cab" system, but many were conversions based on other games (like Asteroids), and wasn't looking for one of those. Even saw a sit down version offered within 50 miles of me on Craigslist last year, but those take up way too much space.
Back in 2003, the game was 20 years old, and not too easy to find in working condition, esp. within a reasonable drive. Now they are 35 years old, and MUCH harder to find in working (not to mention nice cosmetic) condition. But a couple weeks back, the guy I sold mine to called me out of the blue to tell me he was downsizing and had to sell it. He had it overhauled several years back, and assured me it was in tip-top condition. The price was...a bit more than I had sold it to him for (but he was willing to deliver
When I sold the game, the guy who bought it from me asked why I was selling it. I reminded him of what Spock told Stonn in Amok Time about having not always being "so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting". He in turn reminded me of that this afternoon and asked me if I still believed it to be true. I told him "not in this case". Regardless, it is now back where it belongs, and I am a very happy, though apparently still childish, aging Trekkie. Gonna try to hold onto it for a bit longer this time.
Sorry for writing a novel here, but it's kinda surreal to have it back and I am, for lack of a better word, stoked.
Come visit me in the PA poconos and you can play it to your heart’s content...or till you run out of quarters (whichever comes first).
The first one is on me:
The first one is on me:
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I loved that game in the arcades, especially the sitdown version. I developed a strategy pretty fast where, in the higher levels, I could gun the engines away from the Klingons, which would pursue and tend to cluster up behind me, at which point I'd spin the ship about 180 degrees to face them, pop off one photon torpedo, and immediately hit the warp drive to skip over the resulting blast which took out the majority of the enemies in one go. Good times.
Boy do I remember this one! I loved this game!!
I had the Atari 8-bit version, but it was nowhere near as fun.
If I ever get around to building the MAME machine I've longed to build for over ten years, this will definitely be one of the ROMs I install.
I had the Atari 8-bit version, but it was nowhere near as fun.
If I ever get around to building the MAME machine I've longed to build for over ten years, this will definitely be one of the ROMs I install.
