EGA Trek
DOS - 1988
Description of EGA Trek
EGA Treks is one of the best "clones" of the popular Trek space combat simulation game in late 1970s/early 1980s.
The excellent review at Classicgaming.com says it all: "As the EGA Trek documentation explains, EGA Trek is actually a remake of one of the earliest video games (or earliest Star Trek games, anyway), so old that in its original minicomputer form it apparently wasn't uncommon to receive all the program's output through a printer.
The Federation is being invaded by the Klingons and the Romulans — or rather, the Union is being invaded by the Mongols and the Vandals. (I suppose copyright lawsuits have always been around.) Naturally, it's up to you and you alone (almost) to kick butt and eradicate every Mongol you can find in 64 sectors. And even more naturally, it's not as easy as it sounds.
All of the Star Trek standards are here (albeit with different names): phasers, photon torpedoes, warp drive, various kinds of space stations, planets with dilithium mines, black holes, distress calls, death rays, view screens... Truly, once you figure out how to get around (and since the interface is reeeal old-fashioned, you might actually have to look at the help screen or even — gasp! — the manual), the most fun you can have is just figuring out how everything works and finding the most efficient way to dispense of the Mongol fleet.
You have a limited amount of energy to power all systems, including the lasers, which are prone to overheating, but are still the best way to blast things. Entorps take much less energy, but you can't carry many of them, and they're hard to aim, especially if a black hole is in the way, but they're all useless anyway if all your torpedo tubes are nonfunctioning. You can always shoot one at a nearby star and hope that the resulting explosion will remedy your woes, or even blow you halfway across the galaxy, but destroyed stars cost you points at the end of the mission.
If you capture a Mongol supply station, you might have a plasma bolt or two to chuck at your enemy, provided you're far enough outside of the blast radius to remain unaffected. If all else fails, you can try that experimental Death Ray, which might destroy every ship in the immediate vicinity, or blow you up, or cause mutant crew members to draw funny faces on the viewscreen... And that's just for starters. To say more would just give too much away. But you can be sure that you'll have to figure out a thing or two in order to survive on the Admiral difficulty level, where nasty varieties of Mongols are everywhere, everyone is sending out distress calls, and ship systems fail at a rate that would probably make Kirk throw Scotty in the brig just to make him shut up. Oh, and reinforcements keep pouring in.
EGA Trek really is a fine little game, and it will keep you busy for a time as you race around the galaxy trying to survive or even get a high score. Of course, after blowing away fleet after fleet of Mongol ships, you might begin to feel like Picard in "Conundrum," blasting away at defenseless Lysians... or something." Two thumbs up for this outstanding shareware underdog!
Note: The version for download on this site is the registered version of the original release circa 1991 before Paramount demanded the removal of all Trek references in the game ;) Big thanks to Rebecca for contributing this one!
Review By HOTUD
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Comments and reviews
Lans 2024-08-14 0 point
I remember an earlier version where you were actually playing as the Enterprise. They had it on a computer at the local library. Used to play it for hours every time I got the chance.
SteveR 2024-01-12 0 point
A game similar to EGA Trek is Galaxy Trek. It is a real-time strategy game but very simular to the old "trek" games. You have phasers, torpedoes, hyperdrive, wormholes, blackholes, pulsars and StarBases.
It can be found on steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2693810/Galaxy_Trek/) and & epic games (https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/galaxy-trek-c165da).
LibertyToad 2023-12-02 1 point
Fun game that I used to play quite a bit. From what I recall, it is very similar to "Star Fleet".
Dean478 2020-10-01 -2 points
This isn't even the original. There was a 1990 version that featured some very obvious Star Trek and was eventually removed for legal reasons. It's a shame too because in this day and age it's important to preserve software like that.
Tappy 2016-03-10 2 points
NX-TREK is like egatrek, but made for mobile devices, tons of fun. It's on the Playstore if anyone's interested.
Semmels 2014-05-06 1 point DOS version
Those of you with nostalgia should go check out Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator. It's a local/internet coop game that's like a mix of EGA Trek and Starfleet Command.
Dusty 2014-04-24 1 point DOS version
A very cool game. i've always wondered why we haven't seen anything like it since.
Smiley 2013-08-28 2 points DOS version
Loved this back in the day. It's randomly generated, and at the harder difficulties it is very challenging. You have to be careful with ammo and energy usage and take into account gravity effects when you are firing torpedoes.
Classic Star Trek situations abound, with tribble infestations and enemies attacking starbases. You can find raw dilithium, which might save you if you need energy or blow up your ship.
Some non-enemy space objects can explode, and create massive chain reactions with unexpected consequences. Entire sectors of the map can be destroyed with supernovas.
It's a really nice, well balanced little Star Trek sim, and the randomness makes it infinitely replayable.
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