Star Trek: Phaser Strike Microvision Prices & Value

Description

Star Trek: Phaser Strike was released in 1979 by Milton Bradley for the Microvision hand-held game system alongside the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This made it the first home console video game release for the Star Trek franchise. The package came with a game cartridge overlay for the base unit along with an instruction manual. After Milton Bradley lost the license the following year, a new non-Star Trek related version was released, simply called Phaser Strike. Internationally it was sold without the Star Trek license at all; in Italy and German it was called Shooting Star and it France it was titled Cannon Phaser. Three phaser banks are placed at the bottom of the screen enabling the player to shoot in three separate directions at spaceships represented by a collection of blocks. Although the game is entitled Phaser Strike, the game manual refers to the projectiles as missiles. The size, ranging from one to four squares, and speed of movement of the ships are pre-selected as part of the difficulty settings by the player. In addition to allowing the player to specify the size and speed, the "changeable" option has the console randomly assigning those settings on a ship by ship basis. The player is also able to choose the number of ships that will appear, in multiples of 10 up to 90; the game ends after all the ships have been launched. A score is then generated and the player is given the option to start a new game.