Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (DOS)

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Developer: Interplay Publisher: Interplay Platforms: DOS, Mac OS Classic, Amiga Released internationally: 1992 (floppy), 1993 (CD) This game has revisional differences. This game has anti-piracy features.

The DOS Star Trek: 25th Anniversary is a point-and-click adventure featuring Captain James T. Kirk and his crew in seven missions.

Version Differences

There are two versions of the game for DOS: The ~4MB floppy disk version, and the ~350MB CD-ROM version. The game was also released on both formats for Macintosh. Additionally, there was an Amiga 32-color floppy disk port done by an outside contractor.

Audio

The CD-ROM version improved the game's sound effects and added voices (by the voice actors of the original TV series, no less).

Mission 7

The final mission, "Vengeance", is much shorter in the floppy version. In response to players' feedback, it was expanded in the CD release.

Starfleet

The Starfleet admiral can be either male or female in the floppy version, but they will always be female in the CD version.

Ending Title Card

In addition to added narration and voiceover, the ending title card memorializing Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek) has received a short voiceover praising his life.

Anti-Piracy

The player has to select 1 out of 20 possible destinations on the star map on each mission. The destination names are not shown in-game, but in the manual that comes with the game. Traveling to an incorrect destination will cause a battle to start which will most likely result in a game-over. This isn't too bad considering you can reload a savegame and try again, but having to do this on every mission means you have to try 140 times at worst.