EGA Trek
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This is a 16-color DOS PC shareware clone of the classic "Star Trek" game of 1970's mainframes. However since Star Trek is a license, several names have been changed to avoid infringing the copyright, but the gameplay remains intact.
The game itself is simple. Each sector of the universe is an 8x8 grid containing planets, starbases, friendly or enemy starships and suns. Within this sector you can navigate to any point on the grid with impulse engines, or venture to a new sector using Warp engines. Your ship is equipped with lasers and torpedos to help defend yourself, and scanners to assess the nearby threats and nearby sectors. Additionally you'll need to find starbases for quick repairs and to resupply and may also discover new and unusual planets to beam down and explore. A nice touch to EGA Trek over all other clones is a "viewscreen" window which provides a crude graphic view of nearby objects.
Two distinct empires make your enemies list. The Mongols are the forces you'll run into again and again. Armed battle cruisers of various strengths. The other enemy are the Vandal, seen only in 1 type of ship, but able to cloak and avoid your sensors.
Should your vessel suffer enough damage, various systems will begin to fail and quite possibly you'll be down to your final reserve power and life support. From this point, sustaining more damage or not being able to repair the ship will result in the deaths of all crew members aboard and the ultimate failure of your mission. Success on the other hand is brought about by clearing the entire galaxy of hostile Mongol and Vandal fleets... with bonuses for discoveries, rescues and living crew members.
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Average score: 90% (based on 1 ratings)
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Average score: 4.1 out of 5 (based on 7 ratings with 1 reviews)
Totally excellent for its time!
The Good
There are evil Mongols in the galaxy, and your job is to travel around the sectors and exterminate the lot. The Mongols pose a threat to the Union (yeah a take off of that wonderful phenomenon that we call Star Trek).
You are a pretty little yellow ship, and you can see yourself on the lovely blue grid. The Mongol ships are blue, green or red or a variety of colours, and there are also Mongol bases.
You get to throw in coordinated amongst 64 sectors and go around exterminating them. You can rescue friendly planets and ships too. Friendly bases are good for stocking up on supplies.
This game is just darn entertaining. I love it and I played it for years and years. Never getting bored.
The Bad
I'm going to say 'nothing'. I love this game, and I enjoyed it immensely. You might not like this game as its text based, and thats not really 'in' these days ;)
The Bottom Line
A completely cool clone of a very early Star Trek game, but better than any of the Star Trek games IMO.
DOS · by Michelle (176) · 2005
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Star Trek
EGA Trek is obviously an attempt at making a Star Trek game and in fact, early versions of the game do feature such keywords as ENTERPRISE instead of LEXINGTON, KLINGON instead of MONGOL and ROMULAN instead of VANDAL (some more changes were PHASERS to LASERS and PHOTON TORPEDOS to QUANTUM TORPEDOS). The lawyers are vigilant.
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This is the official page for EGA Trek. You can register for the deluxe version of the game.
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Game added by Clayton Cushman.
Additional contributors: Michelle, Shoddyan, formercontrib, Patrick Bregger.
Game added February 18, 2002. Last modified February 13, 2023.