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Posted May 07, 2015
Live long and GOGbear.

Sci-fi fans and Trekkies of GOG.com, we've got you covered: we're beaming Star Trek straight onto your computers starting now: it's Star Trek's turn to shine on our digital store shelves! Today, we boldly go where no store has gone before, with three of the greatest Star Trek classics ever made premiering digitally, right here on GOG.com!




--<span class="bold">Star Trek: 25th Anniversary</span>
The smash-hit action/point-and-click adventure that has you play as Captain Kirk himself. Take command of the Starship Enterprise and lead your landing parties to mission completion.

--<span class="bold">Star Trek: Judgement Rites</span>
The sequel to the smash-hit 25th Anniversary, with more and better everything. The five-year voyage is about to come to a grand finale.

--<span class="bold">Star Trek: Starfleet Academy</span>
It's where legends are born. A choose-your-adventure space sim, complete with live-action sequences with star appearances by William Shatner and George Takei.




Beam us up, GOGbear! We're one a voyage to trek across galaxies, and we're taking everyone along. Today is the beginning, who knows what the distant future may bring?
Posted May 10, 2015
Well, that "digital exclusive" didn't last long. All 3 Star Trek games are on Steam already, listed as debuting May 8, one day after they debuted here.
Posted May 10, 2015
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tritone: Well, that "digital exclusive" didn't last long. All 3 Star Trek games are on Steam already, listed as debuting May 8, one day after they debuted here.
So GOG presumably did all the work for... one day of advantage?
Posted May 10, 2015
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tritone: Well, that "digital exclusive" didn't last long. All 3 Star Trek games are on Steam already, listed as debuting May 8, one day after they debuted here.
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ShadowWulfe: So GOG presumably did all the work for... one day of advantage?
yeah, kinda sounds like it. Bummer, but I still bought them on GOG. Just surprised to see that exclusive disappear so quickly.

Also, to be fair to everyone, I think GOG will have to remove the "Digital Exclusive" banner on their homepage for these games. Wiat a sec, I guess it doesn't say "digital exclusive" on GOG, it says "digital premiere", which I suppose "technically" is still correct? Just a little irrelevant now that Steam has them.
Post edited May 10, 2015 by tritone
Posted May 10, 2015
I had a blast playing the floppy versions of 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites on my 386 back in the day, and I've been wanting to play them again for years. IIRC, I voted for them on the Community Wishlist as soon as I joined. But as much as I was hoping to see them added to GOG's catalogue, I knew there were some potentially thorny licensing issues in the way. Now, 20+ years later, I can finally try the "talkie" versions. :-)

Two must-own games if you're into Star Trek: TOS and classic point&click adventures IMO.

P.S.: a bit saddened to learn they're already on Steam. Not sure how well they'll sell over there, though. This type of game looks a lot more at home on GOG anyway. :-)
Posted May 10, 2015
I wish so many people on the GoG forums didn't have such a mad-on for Steam. I can sort of understand it, but...as long as you get your stuff here, why get upset because they're on Steam too? All it does is expose the games to a much larger market.
Posted May 10, 2015
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BloodHounder:
That whole pseudomonopoly thing; Kind of a big deal when the end result is flagrant abuse of power.

Edit: I'll edit that it's not necessarily a bad thing for Star Trek to reach a greater audience, the concern isn't that so much as one company muscling in everything for itself, and then using that leverage to do whatever it damn well pleases.
Post edited May 10, 2015 by ShadowWulfe
Posted May 10, 2015
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Posted May 10, 2015
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tritone: Well, that "digital exclusive" didn't last long. All 3 Star Trek games are on Steam already, listed as debuting May 8, one day after they debuted here.
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ShadowWulfe: So GOG presumably did all the work for... one day of advantage?
I don't get the impression that GOG did any work at all in regards to this release. Interplay is just publishing their back catalog on digital distribution sites online.
Post edited May 10, 2015 by BrandeX
Posted May 10, 2015
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BloodHounder:
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ShadowWulfe: That whole pseudomonopoly thing; Kind of a big deal when the end result is flagrant abuse of power.
That's exactly the reason why I think BloodHounder has a point. Isn't it a bit ironic - if not hypocritical - to criticize Steam for being a 'pseudomonopoly' and then wish for games to be exclusive to GOG? If GOG offers a better service than Steam, they should be able to do well enough without forcing people to buy the games here and nowhere else.
Posted May 10, 2015
I would so love to see Star Trek Armada on here at the very least, i can't for my own life find my CD copy..its somewhere in my room. lol

So, i really, REALLY hope you can get all star trek games on here, i would buy majority of them.
Posted May 10, 2015
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BKGaming: Well atleast this should mean we have a very good chance of these Star Trek games coming to GOG:

Star Trek: Klingon Academy
Star Trek: New Worlds
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Chekov's Lost Missions
Star Trek: Starfleet Command
Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires At War
Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Orion Pirates

All ST games published by Interplay, I'd like to see the Starfleet Command games for sure and never played Klingon Academy but wanted too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Interplay_games#S

EDIT: Didn't realize a list was posted already but oh well. xD

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BrandeX: Source: http://steamcommunity.com/app/359650/discussions/0/613957600532375268/#c613957600533799078
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BKGaming: Wow that's nice to know... thanks for the link. :)
Klingon Academy baby! I miss that game.
Posted May 10, 2015
Fantastic news, love star trek games and am now looking forward to the Final Unity, DS9:The Fallen, Bridge Commander and the Star Trek Voyager games, please be as quick as possible with these fantastic games. :)
Posted May 11, 2015
I'm interested to see if anything happens with regard to Star Trek: Generations, Birth of the Federation, and A Final Unity since they were published by Microprose, and not Interplay or Activision.

GOG has some former Microprose titles here, so I can but hope! :-)
Posted May 11, 2015
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blakstar: I'm interested to see if anything happens with regard to Star Trek: Generations, Birth of the Federation, and A Final Unity since they were published by Microprose, and not Interplay or Activision.

GOG has some former Microprose titles here, so I can but hope! :-)
GOG is apparently having some pricing disputes (depending on your interpretation of the recently released statement) with the rights holder of the Microprose titles, Retroism/Night Dive. There have not been any new titles released on GOG since Tommo joined forces with Night Dive last October. Among other issues, they decided to raise the base price on their games from $5.99 to $6.99.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/where_are_all_the_night_dive_studios_retroism_games_heres_your_answer/page1

That said, Grargar made a good point in a discussion we had regarding the Microprose Trek titles a couple days ago. There's a specific list of the Microprose titles that Tommo acquired in the Atari auction. The Star Trek titles were not among them. Best guess is that Atari still holds the rights to them...
Post edited May 11, 2015 by yyahoo
Posted May 17, 2015
So looking forward to see "Star Trek Away Team" on GOG. It's like Commandos but with Star Trek wooo :D Good job guys!
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