An update for the curious: Hansen's has been evicted from his downtown business in Spokane.
http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2014/08/29/fbi-investigated-bluestar-technologies-was-evicted-from-the-commercial-building
Here's the story I wrote. Very little about Wing Commander, but an interesting read nevertheless.
http://www.inlander.com/spokane/the-wizard-of-spokane/Content?oid=2271516
This is all helpful stuff, guys. I had a good chat with Mark Day, but I still haven't been able to prove or disprove it.
If I could somehow figure out who the manufacturer was, that would be even better.
I think if Wing Commander wasn't the first DVD-ROM game, it was at least among the...
I'm a reporter looking into the business practices of a man who has, repeatedly, claimed to have been involved in creating the "first DVD computer game, Wing Commander" back in 1997 for Creative Labs.
Here's an example, from an interview with him and Michael Jackson's Dad, Joe Jackson:
Now...