Category:Wing Commander: Academy

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Wing Commander: Academy
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

Box Contents

• Wing Commander Academy Manual

Credits

Role	Name	Source
Producer	Thomas Blom	Game, Documentation
Executive Producer	Dallas Snell	Documentation
Programmer	Jeff Everett	Game
	Brent A Thale	Game
Artist	Whitney Ayres	Game
	Glen Johnson	Game
Documentation	Kristen Vaughan	Game
Music	John Tipton	Game
	Kirk Winterrowd	Game
Sound Effects	Marc Schaefgen	Game
QA Project Leader	Perry Stokes	Game
Playtester	Marshall Andrews	Game
	Charles Angel	Game
	Russel Byrd	Game
	Jerrold Harrington	Game
	Andrew Hofmann	Game
	Bill Lacoste	Game
	Starr Long	Game
	Rik Packham	Game
	Scott Shelton	Game
Special Thanks	The Wing Commander I and II Teams	Game

Advertising

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Ports

Strategy Guides

Re-Releases

Screenshots

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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

• Flying Kilrathi Ships Information
• Wing Commander Academy manual

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

P-64 Ferret	F-54 Epee	F-44 Rapier II	F-57 Sabre	A-17 Broadsword	A-18 Crossbow	F-95 Morningstar	F-97 Wraith

• Capital Ships

Free Trader	Clydesdale	Gilgamesh	Waterloo	Confederation

• Installations

Supply Depot	Space Station	Star Base

Empire of Kilrah

• Fighters

Sartha	Drakhri	Jalkehi	Grikath	Strakha	Bloodfang	Gothri	Jrathek

• Capital Ships

Dorkathi	Kamekh	Ralatha	Fralthra

• Installations

Supply Depot	Star Base

Missions

Weapons

Guns

Missiles