REVIEW BY:  KEITH JEFFERSON of ST.LOUIS AUG.
     Keith writes for SLAUG newsletter & BBS.

Title: Star Trek

Difficulty Level: Starts fair but difficulty greatly
increases as the boards are cleared.

Space...The Final Frontier...Remember those famous lines?
Well here is the home adaptation of the arcade game based
off the Star Trek television series.  You are the captain of
the starship Enterprise and your mission is to defend your
star bases from an invasion of the Klingon Empire.

You start this game with two outlooks of it.  First you are
given the first person look of the game which is more like
the monitor that Kirk watches from his captain's chair. Here
you can see a 3D look of everything that is in front of you
that is within visable reach.  The other screen show the
entire sector giving the location of each Klingon vessels,
Starbases, the Enterprise or what ever else should be in
that sector.

Every five boards you giving what I call a bonus board which
you must destroy a strange cigar shaped ship that is
dropping mines all over the secor.  Avoid these mines at all
cost.  You must destroy the ship before it lays all its
mines and all the mines have detonated.  Easy way to pick up
a few points if you don't destroy yourself dodging through
the mines.

The weapons you carry are Phasers and Photon torpedoes which
shoots long range and can destroy several Klingons at once.
Your only defense are your shields are weaken every time you
take a shot or collide with an enemy vessel.  You are given
impulse drives which slowly moves your ship across the
sector.  For emergencies there is a Warp Drive that zips
your ship quickly across the sector.  Your shields are
lowered during this process.  Beware of the saucer that
hooks to your ship and drains you Warp Power.  Repairs are
available at Starbases.

The graphics for this game are amazing and sound goes right
along with it too.  The only problem I've had is once I get
to the high boards I don't stand a chance against the
Klingons since they immediately ram into your ship and
killing you.  For you Trekies out there this is a MUST!
 
I give this **** 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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