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Star Trek: The Motion Picture was one of the first games created for the Vectrex Arcade System, a self-contained vector graphics home gaming system. The system included its own game screen (which required plastic overlays to simulate color graphics) and a controller with 360-degree joystick and four control buttons.
The object of this game--a basic "shoot-'em-up" style game for 1 or 2 players--was to travel through space and destroy Klingon and Romulan ships. Gameplay had you flying the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 through nine space sectors trying to reach the "Klingon Mothership" in Sector 9. Players could control shields and phasers and dock with Space stations to refuel.
- NOTE: This game is not a port of Sega's Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator arcade game, which came out around the same time. That game would be translated for game systems of the time much later.