Home Computing Weekly


Time Trek

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Micro Power
Machine: BBC Model B

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #1

This is a long program. It's all of 21K and takes about five minutes to load. You are then given a short introduction and asked for a skill level (I to 20). Similar to Stanrck, the program is written in Mode 7 graphics and they are less than stunning.

You are at the controls of a space cruiser and your mission is to track down and destroy Klingons with phasers and photon torpedoes. You have a protective shield which can deflect some Klingon fire.

There's a battle computer to work out the energy you need to make jumps into hyperspace if the Klingons prove to be a little too troublesome. And there's a once-only panic button if you are about to be destroyed.

For a game written in Basic, it's fairly fast and quite amusing to play with many different features.