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Star Trek: Phaser Strike

Star Trek: Phaser Strike is a shoot 'em up video game that was published by Milton Bradley in 1979, and released for the Microvision at the same time as the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In the game, the…

1 November 1979

Star Trek: Phaser Strike is a video game, released 1 November 1979 on Microvision.

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What Star Trek: Phaser Strike is

Star Trek: Phaser Strike was released in 1979. It is available on Microvision only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Star Trek: Phaser Strike is a shoot 'em up video game that was published by Milton Bradley in 1979, and released for the Microvision at the same time as the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In the game, the player must destroy ships with phaser banks located at the bottom of the screen. The Star Trek name was later dropped and the game was sold as Phaser Strike. It was sold under other names internationally: Shooting Star in Germany, Italy and UK, and Cannon Phaser in France and Canada.
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How it plays

Its themes are action.

Where it sits in the Star Trek series

Star Trek: Phaser Strike is the first of 90 entries we hold in the Star Trek series. The next entry was Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator in 1982.

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Quick answers

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When did Star Trek: Phaser Strike come out?
Star Trek: Phaser Strike was released on 1 November 1979 for Microvision.

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