Mace
Vice Admiral
Well, Wing commander III came out in early 1994(I did not purchase it until until November 1994, since then I managed to beef up my computer with a new motherboard+CPU to be able to actually run the game at a descent speed! Legacy CD-rom games actually got more expensive over the years, and I remember WC3 in it's original release became hard to find.... There was a budget re-release however by the time WC4 hit the stores, that was already out in 1996. I can walk into a gamestore and take a copy of prophecy gold of the shelf, or if it is not there have it ordered.
Super Mario and Sonic are also family games, and resident evil, doom etc, are basic shooters anyone can have a go at from any home system or console, and with street fighter and mortal kombat on fulltime display at most stores.... You need a joystick to pilot wing commander and you have full 3D freedom of movement, that makes it difficult to control for some, and only very few people play (combat) flightsimulators anyway.
It's a wonder that a space sim has any storytelling and character depth in it at all, so it is actually a big deal that it got turned into a cartoon series, a set of books and a movie(exactly the opposite the star wars franchise did).
Super Mario and Sonic are also family games, and resident evil, doom etc, are basic shooters anyone can have a go at from any home system or console, and with street fighter and mortal kombat on fulltime display at most stores.... You need a joystick to pilot wing commander and you have full 3D freedom of movement, that makes it difficult to control for some, and only very few people play (combat) flightsimulators anyway.
It's a wonder that a space sim has any storytelling and character depth in it at all, so it is actually a big deal that it got turned into a cartoon series, a set of books and a movie(exactly the opposite the star wars franchise did).