Category:Wing Commander: Academy
| Wing Commander: Academy | |
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| Platform | MS-DOS |
| Engine | Origin FX |
| Release Date | August 27, 1993 |
| Language | English |
| Retail Price | $49.95"$" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 49.95. |
Description
A Stand-Alone Game — No previous Wing Commander experience necessary.
As a student at the TCSN Academy, you custom-design and fly unique combat, rescue, and search and retrieval missions from the CyberSchool's holographic simulator. In the Wing Commander tradition, the game features a dynamic musical score, improved bit-mapped graphics, and a dazzling array of customizing options. But Wing Commander Academy is not another cinematic extravaganza — it's an intense dogfighting marathon.
- Custom-design a variety of missions that match your skill level as you place fighters, capital ships, mine fields, asteroid fields, data pods and ejected pilots - up to 10 in each of the four action spheres.
- Save up to 24 games to disk and trade with your friends or upload them to bulletin boards to challenge others.
- Request random missions where each action sphere yields an unknown number of enemy ships with pilots of varying skill levels.
- Climb into the cockpits of the new Confederation Wraith or Kilrathi Jrathek fighters for a new combat experience.
- Select a cybernet wingman — from a frightened cadet to a hotshot veteran.
- Fly from the cockpit or try the chase plane view for a new perspective on the intense dogfighting action.
- Sharpen your combat skills as you compete for high-point honors.
- Engage the "Gauntlet" - a dogfighting marathon with 15 progressively difficult levels of attacking ships - including three flights of fighters in each level.
System Requirements
Original Release (1993)
MS-DOS: 386SX, 386, Intel486™ or 100% compatible PC system
REQUIRED: 2 megs RAM, hard drive, MS-DOS 5.0 or higher
SUPPORTS: DOS 6.0 and DOUBLE SPACE
GRAPHICS: 256-color VGA
MUSIC/SOUND EFFECTS (optional): Ad Lib®, Sound Blaster®, Roland® LAPC-I/MT-32, or 100% compatible sound board
DIGITIZED SPEECH and SOUND EFFECTS (optional; limited speech and sound effects in game): Sound Blaster or 100% compatible sound board
Digital Release (2013)
System: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 1.8 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended)
Storage: 2GB HDD
Box Contents
Credits
| Role | Name | Source |
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| Production | ||
| Producer | Thomas Blom | Game, Documentation |
| Executive Producer | Dallas Snell | Documentation |
| Development | ||
| Programmer | Jeff Everett | Game, Documentation |
| Brent A Thale | Game, Documentation | |
| Artist | Whitney Ayres | Game, Documentation |
| Glen Johnson | Game, Documentation | |
| Music | John Tipton | Game, Documentation |
| Kirk Winterrowd | Game, Documentation | |
| Sound Effects | Marc Schaefgen | Game, Documentation |
| Quality Assurance | ||
| QA Project Leader | Perry Stokes | Game, Documentation |
| Playtester | Marshall Andrews | Game, Documentation |
| Charles Angel | Game, Documentation | |
| Russel Byrd | Game, Documentation | |
| Jerrold Harrington | Game, Documentation | |
| Andrew Hofmann | Game, Documentation | |
| Bill LaCoste | Game, Documentation | |
| Starr Long | Game, Documentation | |
| Rik Packham | Game, Documentation | |
| Scott Shelton | Game, Documentation | |
| Packaging | ||
| Documentation | Kristen Vaughan | Game, Documentation |
| Editing | David Ladyman | Documentation |
| Documentation Design | Al Carnley | Documentation |
| Cover Art | Chris Douglas | Documentation |
| Jake Rodgers | Documentation | |
| Box Design | Jennifer Davis | Documentation |
| Thanks | ||
| Special Thanks | The Wing Commander I and II Teams | Game |
Advertising
Key Art
Marketing Flyer
Print Advertising
English
Versions
Ports
Strategy Guides
Re-Releases
Screenshots
GOG Release Promotional Screenshots
Development
Patches / Addons
Fan Made
- Academy Hellcat Patch
- Bloodfang Patch
- Drakhai Patch
- Gothri Patch
- Gothri Patch Patch
- Kamekh, Fralthra Patch
- Kilrathi Depot Patch
- Level 6 Pilot Patch
- Speech Pack
Miscellaneous Files
- Academy Mission Pack
- Confederation Comm Sounds
- Fan Made WC Academy Mission Pack
- Flying Kilrathi Ships Information
Music
Manuals and Game Documentation
Controls
Afterburner Tab Fire guns Space Fire missile Enter Accelerate + Decelerate - Full stop Backspace Look left F2 Look right F3 Look forward F1 Look behind F4 Chase view F5 Battle view F6 Tactical view F7 Missile view F8 Tail view F9 Cycle weapons W Cycle guns G Jump J Cycle targets T Lock target L Damage HUD D Autopilot A Comms select C Nav Map N Eject Ctrl-E
Cheats
- Start the game with "wca ERTS" at the command line to enter debug mode.
- Alt-Del destroys target. Alt-Insert destroys all enemies. Alt-I increases enemy intelligence. Ctrl-I decreases enemy intelligence.
- Start the game with "wca ERTS -k".
- Same as above, plus invincibility.
- Start the game with "wca ERTS -z".
- Same as above, plus invincibility, except for collisions.
Note that "ERTS" must be in ALL CAPS for the cheat to work.
Cutscenes
Ships
Terran Confederation
- Fighters
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Empire of Kilrah
- Fighters
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- Capital Ships
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- Installations
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Missions
Weapons
Guns
Missiles
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Wing Commander: Academy"
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