Description

Cyan Alert! Set your eyeballs on stunned because it’s time for CGA Trek! Your continuing mission is to seek out and destroy an invading fleet of warships in this modern homage to the classic turn-based strategy “Trek” game that originated on mainframe computers in the 1970s.

Homage to game that originated on 1970s mainframes

CGA Trek is a homage to the "Trek" game (sometimes known as Star Trek, Super Star Trek, Space War or Starkill) that originated on mainframe computers in the 1970s, inspired by the innovative PC version from the late 1980s called EGA Trek. Like Riker and his transporter clone Thomas, or Tuvix, it is simultaneously a demake and remake.

Faithful but modern

It aims to be a faithful recreation of the basic gameplay but in a modern, accessible, fun package. I wanted something with strong art direction so I picked the austere and beautiful 4-colour CGA palette of early 1980s computing.

Full details on the store page

For a lot more information and research on the history of the Trek-like, checkout the itch.io to Steam pages for CGA Trek.

Features

• Your very own starship equipped with many systems, including teletransmatporters
• The alpha quadrant as an 8x8 grid containing 64 sectors
• Each sector is an 8x8 grid of locations
• Starbases (general, research and weapon depots)
• Planets (with away missions)
• Enemy ships
• A scenario designer with five difficulty settings
• Authentic 1980s computer voice
• Great 8bit music
• Beautiful, beautiful CGA graphics - 4 colours - using the light magenta/light cyan palette at 320x200 resolution.
• A bunch of surprises for fans of the genre.