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The year was 1988, when "video game" could mean...one of those. OR, playing a tape in your VCR that occasionally told you to use cards, to write down things, to solve a puzzle that had no definitive solution.

Yes, it's as stupid as it sounds. I had this goddamn thing, and we played it at some point in the 90s. And, while the "cutscenes" have a kind of early-cable-TV charm, everyone had to be dragged away from a Nintendo and be forced to "play" this.

Kodak made games. Think about that being a real thing. Imagine that universe. The company that made film for film cameras, and was always 15 years late to every other trend until doing that destroyed them, made games. For the VCR. That people bought. With money.

I'm not saying the Internet is good, or that we don't live in a dystopia. But the Monoculture was Kodak selling VCR games. Things were different back then, and different is not necessarily better.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Klingon Challenge

Original Release: 1994

Developer: Decipher

Publisher: Decipher

Original Platform: Board Game

On the surface, this is another roll and move board game. The Enterprise has been taken over by a Klingon called Kavok. As the ship was undergoing upgrades, only a few unnamed crew are on board. It’s up to them to get access to the Enterprise computer and stop Kavok from starting a war between the Federation and the Klingons.

Do do this, they need to collect 5 isolinear chips and a phaser and get to the bridge. To do this, you need to collect computer access card by landing on spaces and hopefully drawing a card that mentions a specific room (or, if you’re lucky, any room) – however, some of these cards are just bonuses. Once you get to the mentioned room, you earn your next chip.

If the game was just rolling moving and doing what it says, it would be boring. But this is a VCR board game, which makes the experience a lot more fun (albeit a bit silly). While playing, you watch the footage and Kavok (played by Robert O’Reilly, known for playing Gowron) will pop up every now and then. He’ll address a player (usually the one currently moving, sometimes based on rank) who has to respond with “Yes Captain Kavok!” and then gets told what to do, which is usually getting trapped in a stasis field (so they can’t move), spinning the Klingon Dagger for a random chance or to EXPERIANCE BIJ!

While Kavok gets more and more excited to say the words, it just means drawing a Bij card and doing what it says. This will usually be something negative. Sometimes a “Low Level Malfunction” will pop up on screen when you EXPERIANCE BIJ which means you get a reward instead.

It’s a silly game, but fun. It’s easy to lose track of things, but the rules even expect this and say to quickly pick a random person and carry on playing because you’re against the clock. If time runs out, you’ll have to watch the Enterprise get destroyed.

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