I didn't play any of these, but there were a number of Star Trek games published by gamesas. Anyone have memories, thoughts, wants they'd like express?

Love Starfleet Academy. Still play & replay it regularly. Went through hell to get it to play on XP, but well worth it. The long, tedious training mission svcks, & having to repeat it though, if you mess-up.
I am still holding out hope and waiting for The Secret of Vulcan Fury (cartoon-animated-like game, with orange-skinned Edoans in it, I think). This would be a cool place to
Tribal Dreams co-owned it or sometging or was doing the development/code-writing. Someone out there has to have some unfinished code for sale. Maybe, if we could convince George Takai (Sulu) and William Shatner (he should have some dough to invest?), maybe we could get the ball rolling on it.
This was my first gamesas game, and i have been hooked ever since. I am installing Giants for the first time tonight to play, but i have never seen a bad game from them. (I could't quite get the hang of or patience for BG though , so i guess i need a walk-through for that). An that add-on, CLM/ Checkov's Lost Missions has reeeeealy long missions , with the time needed to get between planets in a system.
If i see gamesas, i snatch it up with confidence. If it says DreamCatcher, i run 4 the hills-- a name synonomous with drink-coaster or let-down.
I was excited when i saw them back up. It's a glimmer of hope for that animated star trek game i want made. I sure someone overseas could work on it, at an affordable rate, Asia or Czeck Republic. We need to hurry B4 any more of the original cast die besides James Doohan {Scotty). It would be sooo cool if they added in the the cat-like Catian alien, with black, short fur, a purr, a tail and big yellow eyes, a character from the animated adventures, named M'Ress. Uhura could do her voice.
I need to find out who to beg for this to happen. Maybe bad robot. They have some game experience and are doing the special effects for the 2009 star trek movie.
As for tribal Dreams who began the game w./ gamesas 1998, the pair also released the game "Of Light and Darkness: The Prophecy" for Win9x/2000.
I-play also made critically-acclaimed Freespace, which souns like a game i dreamed of , literally, as a kid-- something like flying around outside of the massive batttlestar galactica. Snubbed by the P3 requirement after install, i uninstalled & have to put it on my P III pc [800MHz+ processor needed].
I have yet to play Bethesda's multi-era ST release, but ST-BC [bridge commander] was a HUGE let-down. I immediately uninstalled it , making plans how to resell it. I lost faith in Atari, as did Paramount (bethesda owns ST game rights now). ST-EF was cool, very much so but ST-EF2 was such another let-down by them, an unplayable way-to-hard disaster.
One last thing: does anyone know an easy way to invest in the company without paying 10.00 per transaction/trade to buy their stock?

gamesas has it all in Star Trek gaming -still has.

Now it would be a good time to make game packages for re-sale heres what woul make good sales:

1. Star Trek 25th & Jugement Rites + additional missions if possible

2. Online buing For Starfleet Command 1 2 & 3 -> patched for xp and vista

gamesas no longer has the rights to produce, modify or sell any Star Trek titles.

pax,
-Chris

Did Bethesda buy the Star Trek license from gamesas aswell?

By the way my similar alias to the above poster (is that Chris Taylor?) is not intentional, I use the same alias on NMA/Bethesda forums also. Imagine my surprise when I activated my account, and saw 'Fallouts?Chris' in red letters at the top of the topic listings. For a split second I thought I'd posted before I'd even joined xD -Formerly FalloutChris. But apparently was confused with Chris Taylor :p

That's what I was thinking.

Star Trek Judgment Rites was my very first computer graphic adventure game. To be quite honest, I owe this game a lot!! I bought it, was stuck on the first mission. A friend of mine and my sister dropped by 1 Saturday afternoon so we could all run up to Costco like we did on a monthly basis. While I shaved, took a shower and got dressed, they were playing JR and got me out of the Brig - first mission. We went to Costco, came back and loaded the game they saved. That evening, we made completed the first 2 missions and got stuck in No Man's Land (my favorite ST mission).

LOL - there was lots of beer involved on my part and my best friends part. When I got up the next morning, my best friend told me that they left me in a German town - somewhat stuck. I called my sister later on to see what I missed and she said if you want, I'll come over next Saturday and we can pick up where we left off at.

That started 10 years of all of us getting together on Saturday and playing games. It really much more fun when you play with other people. We played hundreds of games over the years and it was fun because we could talk about where we were stuck at, what to do, etc.

The second game we played was ST - 25th. That was fun too. Then we branched out to Indy - Fate of Atlantis, Monkey Island - every adventure we could find.

Thanks ST.

I purchased Starfleet Command years ago and, unfortunately, had little time to play it. Now I'm home on a disability for a little while and thought I'd give it a shot once more. Well, it installed ... it starts ... but I can't seem to select anything worthwhile ... like Campaign or Skirmish. Does any one know how to make this game work on a Widows XP system.

Thanks

You need to have the CD in the drive to access Skirmish and Campaign. You can play multiplayer without the CD.

pax,
_Chris

I remember the old gamesas Star Trek games. I still have a lot of them, the Starfleet Command games, New Worlds, I think I still have Starfleet Academy somewhere around here. I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of Klingon Academy.

That brings me back! To this day, gamesas still has/had some of the best Star Trek games in existence in my opinion!

IIRC, Paramount doesn't allow for the transfer of a license. Activision picked up the license afterwards but around the release of Elite Forces 2, filed a lawsuit with Paramount accusing them of devaluing the value of the Star Trek franchise through actions or neglect (and therefore overcharged for the cost of the license). Bethesda picked it up afterwards and released Star Trek Legacy (with Mad Doc Software) and Star Trek Tactical Assault (with Quicksilver Software). Seems the license for video games has been a bit like a hot potato after gamesas.

IIRC, Paramount doesn't allow for the transfer of a license. Activision picked up the license afterwards but around the release of Elite Forces 2, filed a lawsuit with Paramount accusing them of devaluing the value of the Star Trek franchise through actions or neglect (and therefore overcharged for the cost of the license). Bethesda picked it up afterwards and released Star Trek Legacy (with Mad Doc Software) and Star Trek Tactical Assault (with Quicksilver Software). Seems the license for video games has been a bit like a hot potato after gamesas.

Actually various companies own license to the Star Trek games now just like they did in the 80s/90s when gamesas was making them. Bethesda, Atari, Paramount, etc have all recently released Star Trek games.