Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!LSUVM.BITNET!$CSB205 From: $CSB205@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Still looking for Rastan Message-ID: <9106250009.AA00930@apple.com> Date: 24 Jun 91 23:44:24 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 41 |From: Doug Gwyn |Subject: Re: Still looking for Rastan |>Another thing I am curious about. Was there ever a game released on the GS |>based on Star Trek in some way. | |I have two commercial Star Treks for the Apple II (not GS-specific), as I |recall (not being near my software at the moment) published by one of the |traditional book publishers. I didn't think they were very interesting, |but a true Trekkie might enjoy them. Then there are Trek-inspired games |such as Reach For The Stars (3rd Edition), published by SSI for the IIGS. |I imagine you can find that at any of the major Apple II mail-order outfits. Forgive me for picking nits, but I'd hardly call RFTS (published by the Strategic Studies Group - SSG, not Strategic Simulations Inc - SSI) a trek- inspired game. It's more an automated version of a board-style wargame, which existed long before any trek game was ever devised. I have several games of the RFTS genre - RFTS old and new, The Cosmic Balance, Imperium Galactum, etc. These games are more heavily weighted on building up industries/ resources. RFTS is, for example, quite weak in the combat department (how many you have vs. how many he has). Trek games have an entirely different feel to them, i.e. you have to manage available energy, shields, photon torpedoes, phasers... all the grunt work of combat. As for the Trek adventures (i.e. Kobyashi Alternative, Transinium Challenge), They're nothing to get worked up over. If you have a GS, the new shareware Classic Trek should fill the bill. As for the older 8-bit treks, Apple-Trek, the integer BASIC trek that came on cassette with my computer is one of the best that I have seen. Rainbow's Super Stellar Trek, a graphic version of mainframe Super Trek '76, is a superior game but I think it's kinda buggy. (crashes just a bit too easily for my taste) I just thought of another one...Anyone remember the Starfleet Mission Simulator (an adaptation of a vector graphics arcade game). It's okay. -------------------------------- "We were having a great time, but ! Mark Orr ! Macintosh wasn't selling that well. ! $CSB205 @ LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU ! The Apple II was paying our way." ! @ LSUVM.BITNET ! - Guy Kawasaki -------------------------------- From his book: The Macintosh Way