Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Nintendo

TOSE

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Bandai

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action, movie, platform, prototype, scifi, shooter, sideways

1989

The Star Trek V game for the NES is mostly a side scrolling platformer in four parts. The third part is different from the others in that it involves piloting the Enterprise in a space-shooter style game play. Each part is relatively short, and aside from a completely obtuse way to solve opening a door in part 2, the game takes maybe a couple hours to play from start to finish - assuming you don't die repeatedly. This is the biggest problem with this game there's just not much to it. The game mechanics are simple. You mostly walk to the right, shoot enemies, and collect power-ups from the disappearing corpses. You can crouch and jump three times your own height (who knew everyone on board the Enterprise was a skilled high jumper). The power-ups you collect range from federation badges for health, bombs, phaser energy packs that don't seem to actually do anything, speed increasers, and invulnerability. The game loosely follows the plot of the movie. Spock's brother Sybok figures out he knows where God is. (It's interesting to note here that the game actually mentions that Sybok is only a former classmate at the "Valcan School of Thought." [left] This is from an early draft of the script and was changed in later drafts.) He kidnaps dignitaries from the Federation, Klingon, and Romulan empires in order to snare a starship to take him there, since taxi fare in the future is a real bitch.