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Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is an arcade action game where you take control of the Starship Enterprise. Your mission is to save the Federation from NOMAD! Before you get a chance at destroying…

31 December 1983

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is a video game developed by Sega Electronics, released 31 December 1983 on Atari 2600.

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What Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator was developed by Sega Electronics and released in 1983. It is available on Atari 2600 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is an arcade action game where you take control of the Starship Enterprise. Your mission is to save the Federation from NOMAD! Before you get a chance at destroying NOMAD, you'll have to battle your way through ten levels (each consisting of multiple rounds). In each round you may encounter Klingon fighters, deadly anti-matter saucers, asteroid fields, and deadly meteors, all of which are capable of depleting the Enterprises energy. The game ends when your energy supply has completely run out. To fight these dangers, the Enterprise is equipped with an unlimited supply of phasers and a limited supply of photon torpedoes. Each round also contains one…
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Star Trek series

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is the fifth of 90 entries we hold in the Star Trek series. The next entry was USS-Enterprise in 1984.

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What it launched against

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness and Zoo Keeper.

Released around the same time: Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness, Zoo Keeper.

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When did Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator come out?
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator was released on 31 December 1983 for Atari 2600.