| Meta-Trek | |
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| Developer(s) | Brandon Rigney III |
| Publisher(s) | The Alternate Source [1] |
| Designer(s) | Brandon Rigney III [2] |
| Platform(s) | TRS-80 |
| Release | 1980 |
Meta-Trek is a 1980 video game published on disk only by The Alternate Source for TRS-80 32K microcomputers.
Meta-Trek is a Star Trek style game where the object is to explore and claim as many of the 256 available quadrants as possible, while destroying enemy Binarians. [3]
J. Mishcon reviewed Meta-Trek in The Space Gamer No. 37. [3] Mishcon commented that "All in all, I would say that for those interested in a first rate original-Trek style game, this fits the bill nicely." [3]
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