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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

Box Back Cover

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
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

Miscellaneous Files

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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Wc2epee-vdu.gif
Wc2rapier-vdu.gif
Wc2sabre-vdu.gif
Wc2broadsword-vdu.gif
Wc2crossbow-vdu.gif
Wc2morningstar-vdu.gif
Wcawraith-vdu.gif
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
Wc2freetrader-vdu.gif
Wc2clydesdale-vdu.gif
Wc2gilgamesh-vdu.gif
Wc2waterloo-vdu.gif
Wc2confederation-vdu.gif
Free Trader
Clydesdale
Gilgamesh
Waterloo
Confederation
  • Installations
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Wc2starbase-vdu.gif
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Supply Depot
Space Station
Star Base

Empire of Kilrah

  • Fighters
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Wc2drakhri-vdu.gif
Wc2jalkehi-vdu.gif
Wc2grikath-vdu.gif
Wc2strakha-vdu.gif
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Wc2gothri-vdu.gif
Wcajrathek-vdu.gif
Sartha
Drakhri
Jalkehi
Grikath
Strakha
Bloodfang
Gothri
Jrathek
  • Capital Ships
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Wc2dorkathi-vdu.gif
Wc2ralatha-vdu.gif
Wc2fralthra-vdu.gif
Dorkathi
Kamekh
Ralatha
Fralthra
  • Installations
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Supply Depot
Star Base

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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