I recommend Star Fleet Command
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Fleet_Battles
Star Fleet Battles
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
Cover imageStar Fleet Battles (or SFB) is a tactical ship-to-ship combat game created by the Amarillo Design Bureau and published by the now-defunct Task Force Games beginning in 1979. Amarillo Design Bureau now publishes the game independently. The principal designer is Stephen V. Cole, an engineer and former US Army military intelligence officer. It has undergone heavy revision and expansion since it was originally released and is the oldest and most thoroughly tested Star Trek-based game in existence.
While this is a Star Trek product officially licensed by Paramount Pictures, it is granted only a partial license, and as such cannot mention specifics of canon Trek in the games, save for basic information. This game does not use the name Star Trek in its title, but incorporates the design of the Constitution-class heavy cruiser and the uniforms, weapons, aliens, and some of the terminology of The Original Series era. Part of this license allows the game to depict information from the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph (such as the Federation dreadnought and Ptolemy tug) and also information from Star Trek: The Animated Series (including the Klingon projected stasis field and Larry Niven’s rarely-seen Kzinti. It should be noted that the SFU Kzinti are very distinct from those of Larry Niven’s works). This game’s license forbids the release of characters, aliens, ships or situations taken from any of the Star Trek movies or the Next Generation era series (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, etc.). However, Amarillo Design Bureau has continually added their own ships and races to the game system, referring to their continuity as the Star Fleet Universe.
While Star Fleet Battles is a tactical-level game, Amarillo Design Bureau also published a strategic-level game based on the same “universe” entitled Federation and Empire in 1986 which is similar to a 1981 game entitled Federation Space, also published by Task Force Games. The focus of the game involves the eighteen-year long General War fought between the “Coalition” (the Klingon, Romulan and Lyran Empires) and the “Alliance” (the Federation, Kzinti, Hydrans and Gorn with the Tholians as co-belligerents). Expansions and updates published in 1993 and 2000 have greatly enhanced the game and further expansions are still forthcoming to involve races and time periods outside of the General War. A role-playing game has also been created entitled Prime Directive which focuses on small, specially-trained and equipped “Prime Teams”, who are sent on exceptionally dangerous missions. Also, a card-based combat game known as Star Fleet Battle Force and a new tactical combat game, Federation Commander are also produced by the company.
Because of the game’s extensive revisions and high-degree of playability, much of the material from the Star Fleet Battles universe was incorporated into video games by Interplay, such as Star Trek: Starfleet Command and Star Trek: Klingon Academy. These games were licensed by Paramount and therefore were allowed to feature situations during the Star Trek movie era. Amarillo Design Bureau’s partial license has prohibited them from producing computer games based on their own material and previously published board games, however this has been disputed in the past and is still being contested by legal means.
[edit] External link
Official Star Fleet Battles site at StarFleetGames.com
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Oh...the following Xbox games are fully awesome:
Kunf Fu Panda (yes, I was surprised)
Lego Indiana Jones
Halo 2 & 3
Medal of Honor Airborne
Madden 09
And, as I mentioned, Civ Rev looks very promising, and so does Spiderman 3.
It emulates many platforms. NES, SNES, Genisis, C64,......
Inexpensive on the big E, considering you get half a dozen DIFFERENT platforms on one system.
Call of Duty.World at War. I like the Game,eventhough i’m not as good at it as some of the young guys are.
Ping
For PC sim, there is always zoo tycoon.
Bookmarking.
If you have a system that can run Direct X 10 well S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Skys is a rather fun game. The graphics are very nice on a somewhat powerful system.
Bioshock for 5.00 from steam is also a good deal for the PC gamer on a budget.
Second the mention of Left4Dead. Awesome game. I liked the fact that I could play on a team with my son—he’s very good at these things, so he was able to take up any slack in my performance, but we still got to play together. Actually, he said I was pretty good at it, at least compared to my performance in Call of Duty.
We got a Wii for Christmas, and I downloaded World of Goo from WiiWare. You have to build structures out of these sticky blobs to get from one place to another, but your structures are subject to gravity and general wobbliness (since they’re just made out of sticky blobs). The level I completed tonight required me to alternate building the structure horizontally while attaching balloons to it to keep it from falling down. Excellent puzzle game.
My all-time favorite, though, is Rayman 2 for the Nintendo 64. If they ever make that available through Virtual Console, I’m all over it.
Then came:
-PJ