I like games, all sorts of games—board games, video games, whatever. I always have, and since I’m also a Star Trek fan, those two hobbies have crossed paths many times over the years. While there are a good number of Star Trek games that are pretty forgettable, there also are plenty of others which remain fun to play no matter how long ago they were released or how long it’s been since I last played them. With going “free-to-play” and the recent release of two rather pricey—but gosh-darned fun looking— Star Trek tabletop games, and news of an ambitious new computer game coming late next year as a tie-in to the Star Trek movies, I figured now was as good a time as any to take a look back at some other games which have taken their cues from ’s endearing little brainchild. For the purposes of this column, I deliberately pulled a 50-50 split between video games and board/other games, and ordered them simply by their date of release. So, enjoy a look back at 10 of my favorite Star Trek games.

Star Trek Super Phaser II Target Game – Mego, 1976. No, this isn’t a video game or a board game, but how can I not include it here? And why is it called “Super Phaser II?” Because with this, you’re rockin’ an actual, somewhat less-than authentic recreation of a “Type II” phaser from the original series, equipped with its own special light emitter. What are you supposed to do with it? Shoot each other! The idea is that you and your friend(s) each had one of these, and each wore the target badge that comes with it (and which even has a picture of a Klingon battle cruiser on it), and you run around trying to shoot your friends’ badges before they an shoot yours. That’s right, years before Laser Tag was cool, Trekkie kids were on it in the finest Enterprise landing party fashion (No, we don’t do “away teams” here.).

What’s funny is that when I played this as a kid, I had no idea that 10 or so years later, I’d be doing the same thing as a “grown-up,” only with the light emitter attached to an M-16 rifle and me wearing a vest of little reflectors as our unit pretended to wage war on another unit. Everything I knew about small unit tactics at that point, I’d learned from Captain Kirk. Star Trek – Milton Bradley, 1979. Released in conjunction with, this board game at first might be dismissed as just another quickie merchandising cash-grab, one of dozens of products produced as tie-ins to the first Star Trek film. Two to four players face off against one another, each getting assigned a series of missions they must accomplish.

Since then, the Star Trek Universe has always mesmerized me and I loved exploring what it had to offer. Now many years have gone by and I find myself looking to play these fun old Star Trek Games that I played as a kid. I've now switched from windows computers to mac computers and I wanted to see if I can get these old star trek games that worked for windows computers to work for the MacOS.

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The competition comes in the form of each player having to do their thing while crossing paths with the other players, and also having to deal with “alien attacks” and other threats thrown into the mix from time to time. The missions themselves vary in difficulty, as does the layout of the game board itself, helping to keep things interesting from game to game.

There have been more than a few Star Trek board games over the years, and this is one of the better ones. I still have a copy, which I bought a few years ago to replace the battered version I’d had since ’79 and which finally gave up the ghost. Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator – Sega, 1982. Not just one of my favorite Star Trek games, but also among my all-time favorite arcade games. I played this thing with every quarter I could scrounge at the local arcades when I was a teenager.