![]() The 2001 game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars was a strategic starship game with a strategy that could best be described as “Make money as quickly as possible.” It was literally unplayably bad - not because it was boring but because the code was broken and the game wouldn’t run. Whereas the Star Trek TV series and movies were celebrated for their ability to turn abstract and thorny scientific, philosophic and moral concepts into gripping stories, early Star Trek video games had the dubious distinction of embodying laziness. There was simply no point in wasting money making a good game when, thanks to the Star Trek affiliation, it was essentially guaranteed to sell. It was just another sad example of nerds getting bullied - made sadder by the fact that these game publishers employed small armies of nerds to build these games and betray their own kind. They bought it as a license to steal money from Trekkies who wanted that kind of game play. Game developers didn’t buy the license to craft an immersive and awe-inspiring Starfleet experience. The Past: Brand Desecration And Nerd Betrayal: The words Star Trek in the title of a game used to be a guarantee that the experience would suck like a black hole. Now, Namco Bandai is pushing the latest Star Trek game, on course for an early 2013 release, and it’s teaching us how the art of video-game tie-ins has changed over the last four decades.ġ. It's an urge so strong that Paramount, the studio behind the franchise, even incorporated it into one of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies - no matter how stupid it looked. When that technology did finally emerge, well, no nerd has ever seen the Starship Enterprise without wanting to steer it himself. Back in 1971, fans were using their keyboards to blow up Klingon warbirds in a Star Trek text game before the graphics existed to actually depict them. Another is that Star Trek's geek appeal pre-dates the advent of mainstream gaming. It's one reason the multimedia franchise that Gene Roddenberry created in the 1960s has spawned almost as many video games as Mario. Most video games are about exactly the same thing. Celebrate the day with sliced lamb on a pita ( ) » (6 comments)īreak out the mustard and the baloney, Patsy, that's a GRAND JURY ( abcnews.go.Star Trek has always been about exploring the universe, finding out most of it wants to kill us - and then trying to do better. Better get it right squirt or I'll roast your ass on a vertical spit. When Miffy the stuffed bunny was left behind, Montana FWP made sure it had an adventure before reuniting with its owner ( ) » (3 comments) STEM can't have all the fun ( ) » (8 comments) It is only natural that this belongs in the Fandom tab. In other news Doc Severinsen is still alive ( ) » (14 comments)Ĭool Mars images. JWST finds an Einstein Ring in a distant part of the universe and can now rule them all ( ) » (3 comments)ĭoc Severinsen plays his final concert at age 95. ![]() Hulu is all the way in ( ) » (8 comments) NFL players will be drinking it on sidelines during the upcoming season ( ) » (8 comments) New Gatorade contains as much caffeine as two 12-ounce cans of Red Bull. Starts 1:00 PM ET, LGT streaming options ( ) » (26 comments) Hear what commercial radio doesn't sound like on pastFORWARD #388: Something Awesome This Way Comes. Today's 2-hour serving of '80s alt/post-punk/new wave has been preempted by +++CARRIER LOST+++. Scratch that, he found his doppelgänger who is a total stranger ( .uk ) » (15 comments) Man randomly finds his long lost twin brother while swimming on holiday.
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