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Trek (Compute's Gazette)

Race though the galaxy in a dilithium-powered starship, but watch out for drones, mountains, and the dreaded plasma cannon.
You are the captain of a starship en route to Delta Minor on a mission of mercy. The research outpost is battling a mutant virus of their own making. your ship has been ordered to assist in decontaminating the outpost and saving the personnel. Due to the nature of the emergency, you proceed at maximum warp.
The article for this game can be found on page 54 of Compute's Gazette Issue 16 (October 1984)

Why TAS This Game?

The continuation of TASing games from my all-time favorite magazine, Compute's Gazette. This makes my 71st TAS from this series.
This issue came along, while I was still without a Commodore 64. Well, eventually...I got one. This was on the list to type in quickly and play!

Game Difficulty and Ending

At the start of the game, 4 levels of difficulty are provided. I choose the hardest, Level 4. As for the ending...you'll be indicated by a message of "Victory", only to be followed up by the "Game Over" screen.

Effort In TASing (Not BOTed)

This game had a bit of turning point for me. At first, I thought the game was running on a timer. Because of that, I was going for maximum score. Well, after starting over from the beginning and improving this TAS...I saw that maximum score was a very shaky category...as I was about 6000 frames faster over my first effort. I continued on and improved this movie by ending input earlier than I have in most of my games. In fact, it was around 800 frames cut from doing so, although it depended on the outcome of luck.

Human Comparison

I was surprised that I couldn't find a human playing this game. I figured it was more popular for someone to post a video. Well, nothing to be found.

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #9057: nymx's C64 Trek in 02:34.03
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Here is a comparison video of my first and final effort. As I worked on this, I was originally shooting for Maximum Score, but it ended up being an any% run. I think you can see why, since I finally realized that I needed to control RNG to prevent any plasma weapons from being shot. Link to video
I recently discovered that if you haven't reached a level of frustration with TASing any game, then you haven't done your due diligence. ---- SOYZA: Are you playing a game? NYMX: I'm not playing a game, I'm TASing. SOYZA: Oh...so its not a game...Its for real? ---- Anybody got a Quantum computer I can borrow for 20 minutes? Nevermind...eien's 64 core machine will do. :) ---- BOTing will be the end of all games. --NYMX
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I was surprised that I couldn't find a human playing this game. I figured it was more popular for someone to post a video.
I think in this case it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume one of a number of companies with rights to the Star Trek franchise hit any videos that were uploaded with copyright strikes because of the obvious rip-off nature of the game. Also, the ship name of Pegasus (as seen on the victory screen) was eventually used for a fairly important ship seen in Next Generation, which would add to the legal problems any uploads of the game may face.
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GJTASer2018 wrote:
I was surprised that I couldn't find a human playing this game. I figured it was more popular for someone to post a video.
I think in this case it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume one of a number of companies with rights to the Star Trek franchise hit any videos that were uploaded with copyright strikes because of the obvious rip-off nature of the game. Also, the ship name of Pegasus (as seen on the victory screen) was eventually used for a fairly important ship seen in Next Generation, which would add to the legal problems any uploads of the game may face.
Would Paramount really go through the trouble to manually strike down videos of a 40 year old C64 game of this nature? There's dozens of games like this from this era of computing (including other Star Trek knockoffs/fan games) that have footage available on YT. This game could just be SO old and obscure this TAS is some of the only footage that can be found of it.
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