Classic Game Room HD - STAR TREK for Vectrex review

Set your phasers to awesome! Classic Game Room HD reviews STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE the video game for the Vectrex from 1982. Star Trek the Motion Picture was Paramount's 1979 lackluster answer to 1977's Star Wars. For the first time the crew of the Enterprise arrived on the big screen and confronted V'ger, a giant space-something-or-other heading towards Earth! Watch out! Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, Uhura, Scotty, Chekov and numerous nameless ensigns piloted the brand new Enterprise into battle against a model surrounded by cotton balls and fake spider webs. The result was about three hours of some brilliant filmmaking mixed with a terrible script and some bizarre outfits. The result was a unique Star Trek film that doesn't quite fit with the series. Star Trek The Motion Picture the video game for Vectrex has little to do with the movie at all, in fact it has more in common with Star Wars. Players shoot Romulan and Klingon space ships with a laser cannon, refuel shields at a space station and fly through black holes. Smooth controls and vector graphics make the game fun and playable, although very repetitive. Fans of old school space ship shooters should enjoy Star Trek on Vectrex because of the old school gameplay and fun Star Trek overlay.

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[RandomProduct]

This review could've been about 1 minute long. But it's 9. Why? Because Mark went on his amazing rants again. The rants I have grown to love. The game itself became a mindless color in the background as Mark told us about his idea for the greatest Sci-Fi movie ever. This is why we love Mark.

[GonchyT]

See, this is why I love Classic Game Room. Come for the video game reviews - Stay for the bizarre ramblings about Star Trek 7: Wrath of Mechagodzilla.

[SchlossRitter]

I've only seen ST:TMP maybe once but more likely not at all. Considering that I'm a fan of the franchise, me never making the effort to sit through it probably says a lot.

Hm, with the focus on Star Wars like action, this reminds me more of the ST reboot movie, which also happens to feature a black hole, heh.

Wrath of Khan was so overplayed on TV in the 80s & 90s that I got sick of it.

You can shoot down torpedoes for points instead of using shields, by the way.

Nice Spaceballs reference.

[BackyardEpicMovies]

This review pretty much sums up everything I love about Classic Game Room.

[Lugmillord]

@RandomProduct What? But... but... it's the Vectrex! It's always important :(

[gillianorley]

VGER was a Vetrex machine that Mark launched into deep space. It was found by a machine-race who armed it and sent it back to Earth to destroy us all.

[lifeisbeechy]

Get Michael Bay to direct, that would be even better (worse?) than Cameron!

[tailream666]

sooooooooo briiiiiiigggghhhhtttt

[GamerNinjaX]

@soul0fdarkness and movies, one of the things he said is that he is a movie buff

[Fyllis]

I think I'm in love with Mark. Mechagodzilla and Star Trek combined must be one of the best ideas ever.

[RawHunterX]

Only Lord Karnage could have come from talking about Star Trek to Mecha Godzila! He's a GENIUS!

[clckwrk714714]

Star Trek vs Star Wars vs Godzilla drinking beer for Vectrex