Product reviewsStar Trek: 25th Anniversary (Nintendo Game Boy, 1992)

Good, if you like a challenge

OK, this game is frustrating. So much so that, about 20 years ago, I sold the copy I had. However, nostalgia has been biting me again lately, so I bought it again. This game is very challenging and requires quick reflexes and a lot of patience. I had neither in my youth, but I enjoy a good challenge much more than I did back then. The Game Boy Color make this game much better, as the colors make things easier to distinguish than the old puke green and black graphics of the original Game Boy. Flying through space dodging asteroids, big chunks of amoeba parts and enemy ships (and torpedoes) will test you. This game is very unforgiving. You can transfer more power to your shields (pause screen) but that will make your engines and phasers weaker. Or, you can boost power to your engines hoping to make it through faster. So, there is a bit of strategy involved in this arcade style game. The away missions are also difficult, but still fun.

There was one thing I regretted after I sold my original copy, and that was not keeping it long enough to see how it was on a Super Game Boy adapter for the SNES, which I bought after I sold this game. Well, I'm glad I didn't buy this again just for that. This game freezes on the Super Game Boy. I was using it on a clone console, so I thought there was an outside chance that was the issue. But, when I pulled my actual SNES out of the closet and tried the game with that, it still froze. I don't know why, but it's not the game's fault. It was released two years before the Super Game Boy. But, the game works great on the Game Boy Color, so I'm not too sad about it.Read full review...

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: mopchu

Best Star Trek game I've owned.

Actually buying an extra copy to take on the road with me and to the cabin, I originally recieved this game back in the early 90's as a gift when I was a kid. True to classic Star Trek as it can get, you get original Kirk, Spock, and McCoy on over-head-view away missions and side-scrolling, 2-D space combat. The away missions are more puzzle-solving in origin and can be somewhat shaky and complicated, but not terrible by any means. The real treat here is the space combat. You get a plethora of enemies, multiple fronts, ship-upgrading capabilities, and a massive final-boss. I recommend this game to any fan of the original television series or franchise fanatic, it was a hidden gem of a game from the bygone days of yesteryear. Live long and prosper...Read full review...

Great game!

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: retroawesome

Good fun great shape

Honestly had a ball playing this didn't think it would be that fun but as soon as plug in I was hooked

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: wizardrealmresales

Old school fun!

Old school gaming, simplicity sometimes works!

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: jm5555

Star trek 25th aniversary

This game bring me happy memories from when I started playing video games

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: orville1313_2

good for Star Trek collecting, the game is sub-par

Buy this one if your a collector of Star Trek, its sure to be a rare classic in a few years.
Bulky game play, not very good graphics for the Game Boy.
Not a game that is addciting and want to play agian and agian. It's too frustrating going through all these asteriod fields and what not.Read full review...