Based on Star Trek TMP or II?


I guess more Trek II as it came out 1982 and was a simulation game like the beginning of Trek II

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Wrath of Khan's digital effects were top notch for 1982, not reproducible on arcade hardware or consoles.
The game is wireframes only, no textures.

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I mean it was sort of similar to the concept of the Kobiashi Maru simulation at the start of Trek II

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3D animation was very limited:
https://youtu.be/q9q31sChWKk

Similar, but limited to a few lines and lots of imagination.

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I remember playing the sit down version in the arcade.

Pretty fun. Had x-y graphics (like Tempest /Astroids).

When you put in your quarter the game (with a very close Spock voice) would say "Welcome aboard captain"

Three split screens but you really just paid attention to one, gave tactical play where you piloted the Enterprise and shot photon torpedoes to destroy Klingon ships.

Really good vocal synth speech for the time.

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Yes I remember playing the sit down version in the arcades in the 80s along with all the other movie games: Star Wars sit down (obviously the biggest and Trek was clearly influenced by), Temple of Doom, Firefox etc and After Burner was obviously Top Gun in everything but name

I just been reminiscing by looking at various utube videos (even obscure stuff I used to play like Chopper Down which I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called so just typed '80s helicopter arcade game' ) and recalling all the sounds from spending alot of time in the arcades. the Trek one was obviously influenced by both Star Trek I and II: the white sit down version seemingly looking like something from TMP,as was the artwork as if it were designed for that film and some of the sound FX are like something from Vger, but the simulation aspect of the game mirrored the KM test in TWOK, there's the 'welcome aboard' sound from when Kirk arrives aboard the enterprise (and the Spock like voice as if Spock was in charge like in the film) and obviously the game was in arcades in 82/83 as to tie in with the movie. I get the impression they were developing the game around the time of TMP but took so long on it they probably incorporated some Trek II stuff as if to tie in to the film

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Yeah Firefox was another short lived arcade game that used laserdisc stuff.

The original arcade games with x/y monitors will be harder and harder to find, since they have a limited life span before they burn out and they don't make the monitors anymore.

I'm sure the original sit down Star Wars x/y fetches a handsome price.

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