Wing Commander - It’s been 27 years since the saga of Wing Commander began. In that time it rose to a height of popularity that few properties ever do. It was everywhere. The games were selling millions, it had a TV cartoon, it had a movie, it had a card game, it had books and sadly it had Electronic Arts. Now it only lives on in memories, in its fans, and in the works of the people who want to relive it just one more time. #gaming
It set the standard for space battle games until X-Wing was released. It also made the Soundblaster the "must have" piece of hardware, because it supported FM music and digital audio. At the time there was no other audio card that can do both. Also, even though it's all bitmapped graphics, they made detailed 3D models of all the ships and used them to get all the angles but 320x200 graphics didn't do the models much justice, but no other game did that, so in our innocent 2D minds back then, it… See More
looked awesome.
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