I was a huge fan of the Starfleet Academy game back in the day (randomly deleting my saves aside). I thought the game worked at just the right time and had a lot of cool things going for it, in particular the ability to play the Kobashi Maru No Win Scenario for yourselves, and with Jim Kirk's original cheats.

Ten years later, the 2009 Star Trek movie came out and they had their own depiction of the test. Now, I liked the movie all well and good, but the depiction of the test was just AWFUL. Why did I think it was awful? Because I had already seen it done better in a video game released ten years prior. I didn't think too much of it when the movie came out, but when I saw Mr. Plinkett gave the scene a negative mark for himself (with no mention at all of the video game, he probably never played it) it made me think that the scene was just done wrong, and that gamesas's writer had done a hell of a lot better job in the game, and then the official expanded novelization (yeah they released a book).

So a few months ago, I wrote this article detailing why I though the game Starfleet Academy did a better job depicting the Kobashi Maru than the recent movie did. You can read it here. http://gamexcess.net/2013/02/14/it-was-done-better-in-a-game-the-kobashi-maru-test/

What do you guys think? Which scene do you prefer? Note to my neighbors, those rumblings you heard earlier was not an earthquake, I now have nuclear power.