Wing Commander for Genesis

Wing Commander
Platform	Sega Genesis
Status	Announced
Timeline	Announced - October 1990 Planned Release - ~1992

Wing Commander for Genesis is a Wing Commander project which was not released.

In late 1990, Chris Roberts spoke to the press about long range plans for Wing Commander saying that port for the Super Nintendo and Genesis would be developed after versions for the CDTV and Amiga. Electronic Arts later employed Game Arts to develop a separate port for the Genesis' Sega CD peripheral.

References

• The evolution of Wing Commander will begin on the IBM PC (supporting EGA, VGA, MCGA and Tandy graphics) around Christmas 1991 [sic], with a likely appearance on the Amiga line. Commodore’s compact disc-based CDTV, using the Amiga as a foundation, will also be a natural location. Eventually, Wing Commander will be ported to video-game consoles. Roberts discussed how easily the game—along with its stereo sound and high-resolution graphics—would port to the Genesis and, whenever it’s brought to the U.S., Nintendo’s Super Famicom. - Andy Eddy, The Making of the Origin Systems' Wing Commander (Video Games & Computer Entertainment, October 1990

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